Insurgents in Iraq Say Releasing Eight Chinese
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Insurgents holding eight Chinese laborers hostage in Iraq said on Saturday they were releasing the men, locals who saw a videotape circulated by the kidnappers said.
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Islamic militants are still holding two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in Pakistan and have threatened to kill them if attacked by security forces, a member of a team seeking the captives&#39; release said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants in Iraq freed seven foreign truck drivers Wednesday after holding them six weeks, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French reporters captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a ban on Muslim head scarves in schools.    Also Wednesday, gunmen shot at a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi as he returned from Najaf to attend the first meeting of Iraq's 100-member National Council, which is to act as a watchdog over the interim government and help shepherd the nation to elections...
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China responded to Iraqi insurgents'  demands that it ban Chinese from going to Iraq saying on Friday  it had already warned its nationals against traveling there and  called for the safe release of eight Chinese hostages.
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Eight Chinese hostages whose whereabouts had been unknown since their release 24 hours ago are safe in Baghdad and in the hands of the Chinese authorities, a diplomat told AFP.
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U.S. forces said on Wednesday they had detained eight Iranians overnight and seized a suitcase full of money from their central Baghdad hotel but later freed them after consultations with the Iraqi government.
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Islamic insurgents released 10 Turkish hostages in Iraq, and their employer said Tuesday that his company will resume operations in the wartorn country because it was unclear whether the abductions were politically motivated or criminal.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend will return home soon, state media said on Monday.
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Iraq's vice president assured China that Baghdad will "exhaust every effort" to free eight Chinese abducted by Iraqi insurgents as a deadline set by their captors passed with no word on their fate, state media said Friday.
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A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after dropping nearly all their demands, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French journalists captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a controversial head scarf law.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Islamic insurgents released 10 Turkish hostages in Iraq, and their employer said Tuesday that his company will resume operations in the wartorn country because it was unclear whether the abductions were politically motivated or criminal.    The hostages, who were released Monday night, arrived in the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday morning, their company, the Ankara-based VINSAN, said...
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Iraqi militants have freed 10 employees of a Turkish construction company taken captive in Iraq in last month, the company&#39;s general manager says.
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says.
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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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Insurgents in Iraq threatened on  Tuesday to kill eight Chinese hostages as Baghdad officials  said they would close land borders and restrict traffic across  the country in a bid to thwart attacks during next week's  election.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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A group called the Iraqi Islamic Secret Army issued a type-written statement in the restive town of Samarra in southern Iraq today, saying they had captured two Australian security workers along with two East Asians.