The transfer of the two campaigners Thursday has ended a tense standoff in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.
During the standoff, six American warships surrounded the seized vessel to ensure the weapons were not taken elsewhere in the volatile region.
In Venezuela, 2, 500 prisoners have been transferred out of a jail near Caracas where troops are locked in a standoff with rioters in another block of the prison.
And financial aid for the beleaguered auto industry is being stalled by a political standoff.
This is putting greater pressure on all sides to try to reach an agreement to the nuclear standoff.
More than 500 residents of the port city remained cut off from their homes by the standoff, and local businesses and three nearby schools remained closed.
Suddenly there is a standoff as Frank's guys appear with their weapons.
Jack orders them to drop their weapons. They in turn hold DeSalvo at gunpoint, and Jack relents in the standoff.
China said its top negotiator on the North Korean nuclear standoff Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei is going to Pyongyang next week, although it is not clear if he will discuss the missile tests.
The standoff between the protesters in Syria and the government has escalated to new levels of violence.
The American standoff with Iran remains fraught, and potentially explosive.
The standoff has chilled relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors and raised speculation there could be another armed confrontation between India and Pakistan.
A five-year-old girl in a home with a potentially armed suspect helped police peacefully end a tense 10-hour standoff in a Winnipeg townhouse Saturday.
What the data show is that home buyers and property developers are in a standoff, not only because neither side wants to back down but also because both are equally clueless about the future.
As summer came, Dick Holbrooke was back in the region to try to find a diplomatic solution for the standoff.
During a 12-hour standoff, police tried unsuccessfully to break into the bus.
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