Pakistan to compensate hostages&#39; families
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As a goodwill gesture, Islamabad will compensate the families of two Chinese workers taken hostage in Pakistan, one of whom died in a rescue attempt last week.
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The Federal Government is planning to bill the now deported Bakhtiyari family for the time they spent in immigration detention. The Bakhtiyari family was deported to Pakistan yesterday morning.
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President Ricardo Lagos on Sunday said he planned to compensate thousands of people who were imprisoned and tortured under the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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The last four Britons freed from the  U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are to be reunited with  their families on Wednesday after British police released them  without charge.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three U.N. hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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It is suspected that they were freed in exchange for a $1 million ransom, a belief that has cast a cloud over national celebrations of the release.
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Al-Jazeera TV in Qatar said that one Islamic group has released two women of the relatives of the Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi, but still holding his cousin as a hostage.
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In Iraq, where the kidnapping of foreign nationals has become more and more frequent, several recent examples indicate that governments are willing to pay up or offer political concessions to secure the release ...
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The Taliban has agreed to release 19 South Korean hostages held in Afghanistan in return for the withdrawal of South Korean troops from the country before the end of the year, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
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Afghan militants who have threatened to  kill three kidnapped U.N. workers have agreed to give the  government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban  prisoners, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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The whole country is uniting to secure the release of the hostages and support their families in this ordeal.
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Thousands tortured under Augusto Pinochet's former military regime in Chile are granted compensation.
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Libya&#39;s Kadhafi Foundation said on Tuesday it had reached a compensation deal with the families of children infected with the AIDS virus that would resolve the case of six foreign medics now on death row.
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JERUSALEM Israel&#39;s security cabinet on Tuesday approved a compensation package that would pay roughly $200,000 to $300,000 to each Jewish family that agreed to leave the Gaza Strip under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s withdrawal plan.
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Militants released seven foreign hostages Wednesday after their employer paid &#36;500,000 ransom, while France mustered support from Muslims at home and abroad to push for the release of two French journalists still held captive in Iraq.
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Two sons of a Pakistani family who won a reprieve from deportation are scheduled to be flown home.
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Gunmen who took up to 250 Pakistani school children hostage on Monday in a northwestern town freed them all and surrendered to tribal elders, a government spokesman said.