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| May. 3 |
Portugal |
Police: Hunt for Madeleine goes on
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| Apr. 27 |
Austria |
Detectives study cellar
Police have described the cellar where a woman was allegedly held captive and sexually abused for 24 years by her father
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Austria |
Captive woman had 7 children by father
Map of Amstetten Austria Police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and had seven children with her
| The existence of the woman, missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged apparently after a teenage child fell ill and had to be taken to hospital.
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| Apr. 26 |
Somalia |
Pirates free crew of Spanish boat Pirates have released the Playa de Bakio, a Basque tuna fishing boat, and its 26 crew members seized off the coast of Somalia
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| Apr. 19 |
Afghanistan |
Pakistan envoy: I am Taliban hostage
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| Apr.11 |
Paris |
Sarkozy: Pirates have released hostages |
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| Apr.8 |
Colombia |
Rebels reject French aid to hostage
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| Apr.4 |
Colombia |
Doubt grows over hostage release |
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| Apr.3 |
Colombia |
Rebels demand exchange |
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| Apr.1 |
Paris |
Sarkozy pleads for Colombian hostage
French President will send a humanitarian mission to Colombia's jungles to treat ailing hostages held by leftist rebels there
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| Mar.25 |
Venezuela |
Chavez: Little chance to free Betancourt
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Judges freed by new PM
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Iraq |
Bodies of kidnapped US contractors found |
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| Mar.13 |
Iraq |
U.S. sent fingers of Iraq kidnap victims |
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| Mar.5 |
Sri Lanka |
Government rapped over 'disappeared' |
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China |
China hijacker takes Australians hostage |
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| Feb.27 |
Venezuela |
4 hostages released by FARC |
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London |
PM Brown: Hostage video deplorable |
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Colombia |
Hostage mission begins |
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| Jan.29 |
Venezuela |
Hostage gang captured |
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| Jan.28 |
West Pakistan |
School siege ends peacefully |
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| Jan.18 |
United Arab Emirates |
Dubai rape teen negative for HIV |
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| Jan.16 |
Antarctica |
Whalers accused of kidnapping activists An anti-whaling group is accusing the crew of a vessel of kidnapping 2 activists who climbed on board the ship to try to stop its whaling op...
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| Jan.13 |
Colombia |
Freed hostage sees son
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Scandal-hit Interpol chief quits
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| Jan.10 |
Venezuela |
Freed hostages reunited with families 
| 2 hostages freed by Colombian rebels have landed in Caracas, where their friends and family carrying flowers clapped and embraced them | |
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| Jan.4 |
Colombia |
FARC admit 'hostage boy' not held |
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| Dec.31 |
Colombia |
New delay for hostages |
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Benazir Bhutto assassinated
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| Dec.24 |
Kashmir |
Mosque besieged
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| Dec.5 |
Paris |
Sarkozy urges Betancourt release
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Former Khmer Rouge leader arrested
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| Nov.8 |
Venezuela |
Hostage talks see spark of hope |
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| Oct.23 |
Somalia |
U.N. food chief released |
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| Oct.17 |
Somalia |
Aid stopped after kidnap The UN has stopped distributing food in Mogadishu, after government troops abducted the local head of the World Food Program
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| Sep.1 |
South Korea |
Freed Koreans return home The 19 church workers freed from captivity in Afghanistan have arrived home in Seoul, after being held by the Taleban for 6 weeks
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| Aug.31 |
Colombia |
Chavez to help broker hostage deal
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| Aug.30 |
Afghanistan |
Final S. Korean hostages freed by Taliban| Kidnappers released the 7 remaining hostages and handed them over to Red Cross officials | |
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| Aug.29 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban frees 12 South Korean hostages
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| Aug.28 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: Korean hostages to be released |
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| Aug.19 |
Kabul |
Kidnapped German woman freed
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Afghanistan |
Kidnapped German in Afghan video |
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| Aug.18 |
Kabul |
German woman kidnapped A woman has been kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of the capital. She works for an international aid organisation
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| Aug.13 |
Afghanistan |
Two female Korean hostages freed Kim Kyung Ja and Kim Jina were now in Ghazni's provincial capital, 25 days after they were seized
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| Aug.11 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: 2 hostages to be released |
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First Khmer Rouge leader charged
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| Jul.30 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban resumes talks on hostages |
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| Jul.29 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: Hostages will die Monday |
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| Jul.26 |
Afghanistan |
S Korean hostage pleads for help |
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| Jul.23 |
Afghanistan |
Deadline looms for hostages |
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| Jul.22 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban extend deadline for hostages |
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| Jul.21 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban: 2 German hostages killed The Afghan Foreign Ministry said one is still alive and the other died of a heart attack
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| Jul.20 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban threaten abducted South Koreans The militants threatened to kill a group of abducted Christians within 24 hours unless S. Korea withdraws its troops from Afghanistan
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| Jul.9 |
Nigeria |
Girl recovers after kidnap |
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| Jul.8 |
Nigeria |
Kidnappers free UK girl |
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| Jul.5 |
Colombia |
Colombians hold kidnap protests
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Nigeria |
'Threat to kill' missing UK girl |
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Nigeria |
Three-year-old seized
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| Jul.4 |
Jerusalem |
BBC man: I felt buried alive
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| Jul.3 |
Gaza |
BBC reporter Alan Johnston freed| Johnston, kidnapped March 12 by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, was wearing blue jeans and looking gaunt. TV pictures showed Johnston, 45, leaving a building and entering a car, acc... | |
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Afghan police hit by suicide bomb, 35 killed
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| Jun.1 |
Gaza |
Video released of BBC's Johnston
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| May.29 |
Baghdad |
Five Britons seized
4 bodyguards and a finance expert have been kidnapped from Iraq's finance ministry. The kidnappers wore police uniforms
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| May.18 |
Colombia |
President vows to free Betancourt |
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| May.8 |
Nigeria |
4 Americans seized |
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| Apr.29 |
Ethiopia |
Rebels release 7 Chinese hostages |
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| Apr.20 |
Texas |
Gunman kills hostage at Nasa base |
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| Mar.28 |
Manila |
Hostage-taker releases children, teachers |
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| Mar.27 |
Manila |
Gunmen seize bus
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Woolmer was strangled, police say
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| Mar.14 |
Afghanistan |
Taliban hostage makes video appeal |
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| Mar.13 |
Eritrea |
European hostages freed |
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| Mar.10 |
Iraq |
Kidnapping in Iraq aimed at Germans |
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| Mar.6 |
Ethiopia |
Kidnapped Britons' vehicles found |
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| Feb.8 |
Nigeria |
Militants hold more hostages |
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| Jan.12 |
USA |
Missing teens discovered alive
Map of KIRKWOOD Missouri USA The boys, one of whom was last in 2002, have been found alive at the home of a 41-year-old Michael Devlin
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| Dec.14 |
Baghdad |
Gunmen in uniforms kidnap 20-30 |
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| Nov.19 |
Baghdad |
Iraq's deputy health minister kidnapped |
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| Nov.14 |
Baghdad |
Most hostages freed after kidnapping |
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Baghdad |
Gunmen grab up to 100 from institute
The minister of higher education ordered universities closed until security improves
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| Oct.24 |
Baghdad |
Masked men abducted U.S. soldier |
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| Oct.4 |
Baghdad |
Iraq police brigade aided abuctors |
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| Aug.27 |
Gaza |
Kidnapped Fox journalists released |
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| Aug.23 |
Austria |
Girl 'found' after years In 1998 Natasha Kampusch, then aged 10, disappeared 8 years ago in a case which gripped the nation
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Gaza |
Abduction claim of Fox News journalists
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| Jul.12 |
Southern Lebanon |
Hezbollah kidnapping prompts Israeli move 
Guerrillas killed 3 Israeli soldiers and captured 2 more, prompting airstrikes and military raids inside southern Lebanon
| Israel has launched air strikes on bridges and roads in southern Lebanon to stop Hezbollah moving the soldiers. Israeli cabinet endorsed a strong response against the militants
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200 killed in train blasts
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| Jul.3 |
Gaza |
Militants' deadline expires |
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| Jun.25 |
Iraq |
Al Qaeda group killed 4 Russian hostages The statement, video on a Web site: the Mujahedeen Shura Council had beheaded 3 of the men and shot 1 to death
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| Jun.17 |
Baghdad |
Insurgents captured U.S. soldiers Iraqi witnesses say they saw 2 U.S. soldiers being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars
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| May.16 |
Baghdad |
UAE diplomat kidnapped |
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| Mar.30 |
Iraq |
Journalist Carroll freed |
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Milosevic found dead in cell
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| Mar.10 |
Iraq |
FBI: Body of U.S. hostage found The body of Tom Fox, a Christian peace advocate, has been found
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| Feb.9 |
Kuwait |
Abducted journalist makes new plea on TV
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| Jan.28 |
Iraq |
Captors: Last chance for demand
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| Jan.17 |
Baghdad |
Journalist's kidnappers make demands |
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| Jan.1 |
Gaza |
Italian hostages freed in Gaza, Yemen |
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| Dec.30 |
Gaza |
British hostages freed, say Palestinians |
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| Nov.29 |
Iraq |
Video airs of purported hostages Al-Jazeera broadcast a video issued by an unknown group showing what it claimed were 4 hostages
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Boys' electrocution starts riots
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| Jul.21 |
Baghdad |
Algerian diplomats kidnapped |
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| Jul.3 |
Baghdad |
Egypt ambassador to Iraq kidnapped |
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| Jun.9 |
Kabul |
Italy hostage released in Kabul
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| May.22 |
Iraq |
Romanian journalists freed |
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| Apr.10 |
Pakistan |
Pakistan appeals for envoy's release |
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Huge blast kills ex-PM
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| Jan.17 |
Northern Iraq |
Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Mosul |
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| Oct.28 |
Kabul |
Foreign poll staff held in Kabul |
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| Oct.19 |
Iraq |
Agency halts aid projects after kidnap
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| Sep.29 |
Iraq |
Hostage Bigley shown in new video |
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| Sep.28 |
Iraq |
Italians freed, Frenchmen to be released
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| Sep.27 |
Iraq |
Kidnapped Iranian diplomat freed
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| Sep.24 |
Baghdad |
Six Egyptians taken
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| Sep.22 |
Iraq |
British hostage pleads for life on video |
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| Sep.16 |
Baghdad |
2 Americans, Briton kidnapped |
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Car bomb at police station kills 47
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350 dead after troops storm school
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| Sep.2 |
North Caucasus |
School siege: '26 freed' |
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| Sep.1 |
North Caucasus |
Standoff school siege
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| Aug.8 |
Iraq |
Iranian consul abducted |
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| Jul.23 |
Iraq |
Militants take Egyptian diplomat hostage
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| Jun.26 |
Iraq |
3 Turks 'face beheading' |
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| Jun.15 |
Saudi Arabia |
Kidnapped American threatened in video |
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| May.29 |
Saudi Arabia |
50 foreigners held hostage
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Iraq prison abuse sparks outrage
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| Apr.12 |
Iraq |
Russian hostages seized |
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| Apr.8 |
Iraq |
Japanese, Koreans taken hostage
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Rail blasts: 200 dead
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| Aug.18 |
Mali |
14 European hostages released |
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| May.14 |
Algeria |
17 Sahara tourist hostages freed |
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| Mar.12 |
Utah |
Elizabeth Smart found alive |
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| Feb.22 |
Colombia |
FARC rebels 'hold Americans' |
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183 people dead after bomb blasts
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| Aug.20 |
Berlin |
Hostages at Iraqi embassy |
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Terror attacks hit U.S.
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| Apr.23 |
Washington |
Elian reunited with father |