1.   Terrorists holding civilians hostage in the Philippines are paid millions of dollars to free them.

2.   They also took a police officer and two civilians hostage and left for Chechnya.

3.   Two rival rebel factions are accusing each other of taking thousands of civilians hostage just before African peacekeepers arrived to reinforce the western countryside.

4.   In mid-January a group of separatists who took civilians hostage in Kizlyar and Pervomaiskaya in neighbouring Dagestan returned to Novogrozny and later dispersed.

5.   A Russian official dismissed Saturday separatist allegations that Russian soldiers were continuing to hold civilians hostage in a hospital in central Grozny.

6.   According to aid workers based in Buchanan, fugitives have accused the fighters of burning down villages and holding civilians hostage in combat zones.

7.   The Rwandan government has accused the extremist Hutu militias of keeping civilians hostage in the camps.

8.   The South Korean defense ministry on Wednesday denied a television report that suspected armed North Korean infiltrators from a beached submarine had taken two civilians hostage.

9.   They took dozens of civilians hostage, whom they later swapped for safe passage to an MNLF camp outside the city.

10.   Udugov added that Russian soldiers had also taken several civilians hostage.