After more than 16 months of imprisonment in the Ivory Coast, French journalist Jean-Paul Ney arrived in Paris Saturday following his release on bail. Ney was arrested for an alleged anti-government coup plot, a charge he denies.
FARC rebels freed Sigifredo Lopez on Thursday after holding the Colombian lawmaker hostage for over seven years. The release was the last of three such handovers by the leftist guerrilla this week.
French aid worker Dany Egreteau, who was kidnapped a month ago in the Afghan capital Kabul, has been released and will be flown back home to Paris late Thursday, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.
The rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released 10 hostages Thursday, handing 8 to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The group were among 18 captured on July 17.
Free at last. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others have been rescued in a covert Colombian military operation, after six years in guerrilla captivity.
Twenty-six crew members of a Spanish fishing boat, seized off Somalia by pirates last Sunday, were freed for a ransom of 1.2 million dollars, according to a Somali official. (Report: N.Rushworth)
Guerilla group FARC has released four former lawmakers to a Venezuelan delegation in the Colombian jungle. They are now on their way to Caracas for a meeting with President Hugo Chavez.
