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The man armed with an axe and a knife held 15 hostages on a train for almost four hours, until police stormed in and fatally wounded him.

Police stopped the man by running into him forcefully with a car as he chased after his hostage when the hostage fled from the Apple.

The hostage-taker who held several hostages inside a Texas synagogue has been pronounced dead, according to law enforcement officials.

Australian police on Monday shot dead a gunman in the city of Melbourne who had been holding a woman hostage, police said.

They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, referring to a group which has been banned in Bangladesh for more than a decade.

All 20 of the hostages who were killed were foreigners. Most were Italian or Japanese, says Lieutenant Shahab Uddin.

A man who holed up in a post office in a suburb northwest of Paris with two hostages on Friday surrendered and has been arrested.

Man Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage-taker killed in a 16-hour siege, was a self-styled sheikh with his own Wikipedia entry who was on bail when he emerged as a lone wolf gunman.

Monis' former lawyer Manny Conditsis said the public could be assured that the siege was not the work of an organised terrorist group.

Manuel Valls said there would be "no discussion, no negotiation and we will never give in to blackmail."

37 foreigners of eight different nationalities, as well as an Algerian, were killed by hostage-takers during an attack in a gas plant.

The draft finance deal criticised by both developed and developing nations.

This was following the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.

Malaysia's international reserves rose to US$118.0 billion as at Nov 15, 2024, up from US$117.6 billion on Oct 30, 2024.

The findings announced are part of a years-long study of the history of the cosmos focusing upon dark energy.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) wishes to offer the following clarifications to the issues raised.

The Online Safety Advocacy Group (OSAG) stands united with people in Malaysia in the fight against serious online harms.