Two aid workers freed in Somalia
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Kidnappers in Somalia's northern Puntland region free two aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Security forces in Somalia are hunting the gang who seized two aid workers, including a female doctor from Spain.
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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi confirmed on Tuesday that two female Italian aid workers who had been taken hostage in Iraq had been released and turned over to the Italian Red Cross.
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Two truck drivers, a Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan, held hostage in Iraq have been released, reports from Bangladesh say.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali gunmen kidnapped a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) on Wednesday in the latest such abduction in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region.
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Relief efforts by aid agencies and US and German soldiers help Somalis made homeless after last week's tsunami.
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Three Afghanistan aid workers abducted in April with two French colleagues are set free, the Taleban says.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in the north Somalia region of Puntland on Wednesday, their driver and a local official said.
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday under a deal to improve Tripoli's ties with the European Union.
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The Taliban on Sunday released three Afghan aid workers who had been kidnapped along with their two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a spokesman for the group said. The report could not immediately be verified.
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TWO female Italian aid workers were released by their Iraqi captors overnight after three anguished weeks as hostages, sparking scenes of joy at their homes and relief among world leaders.
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Two South African men released from a Zimbabwe prison after being cleared of charges of plotting a coup say they were stripped and beaten in jail.
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An American engineer and his Nigerian driver, who were taken hostage in Nigeria's Delta region, are freed.
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Two Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks were freed Tuesday and immediately flown to a rapturous homecoming in Rome.
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Two Italian women aid workers held hostage in Iraq have been released and handed over to the Italian charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
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Three United Nations hostages were freed in Afghanistan unharmed and healthy after almost four weeks in captivity amid conflicting claims over whether the government promised to free Taliban prisoners in exchange for their release.