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A bullet hole in the glass of a supermarket, where Ukrainian police killed a man who opened fire in a city district and barricaded himself into the supermarket on Saturday (18 April). Photo: Reuters

At least six killed in Kyiv as gunman opens fire and takes hostages

The attacker was killed in a supermarket following a shoot-out with police.

People look at Red Cross vehicles as they escort trucks transporting the bodies of deceased Palestinians held by Israel during the war, after their release, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 15 October 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Israel, Hamas trade blame over truce violations amid delay in return of dead hostages

Passengers who were rescued from a train after it was attacked by separatist militants, walk with their belongings at the Railway Station in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, March 12, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

Pakistan train siege ends, 346 hostages freed; 33 militants, 21 passengers dead

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Freed Israeli hostages urge Netanyahu to implement Gaza deal 'in full'

Israelis sit together as they light candles and hold posters with the images Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, seized during the deadly 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas, on the day the bodies of deceased hostages, identified at the time by Palestinian militant groups as Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, were handed over under the terms of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel on 20 February 2025. Reuters/Itay Cohen

Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for not returning Shiri Bibas

Four Israeli hostages stand on a stage before Hamas fighters hand them over to a team from the Red Cross in Gaza City on 25 January 2025. Photo: AFP

Hamas frees four Israeli hostages in second swap of Gaza deal

Palestinian Hamas militants hand over hostages, Gaza City, January 19, 2025. REUTERS

Ceasefire brings hope in Gaza as Hamas frees first hostages

Law enforcement agencies surrounded the area in the afternoon on 19 Dec. Photo: Focus Bangla

How armed robbers who stormed in Rupali Bank Keraniganj branch surrendered

Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee areas in northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli evacuation order, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Jabalia, October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Hussam Al-Zaanin/File Photo

Israel FM says 'may have opportunity' for Gaza hostage deal

Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American hostage kidnapped in the deadly October 7 2023 attack pleads for US President-elect Donald Trump to secure his release amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in this screen grab taken from a Handout video by Hamas Military Wing released on November 30, 2024. Hamas Military Wing/Handout via Reuters

Hamas releases video of US-Israeli hostage in Gaza

Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, gestures as he speaks during an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip November 11, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ File Photo

Hamas says hostage guards in Gaza have been operating under new instructions

Ayub Khan, engine cadet of the MV Abdullah. Photo: Collected

Pirates brought interpreter long 10 days after taking hostage: MV Abdullah crew

Representational Image. Photo: Collected

Dialogue with KNF not possible any longer: Peace Committee