Libyans abducted in Somalia
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Gunmen abduct two Libyan diplomats at a market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, their driver says.
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seized in Baghdad were abducted west of the capital, an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad said on Friday. and the abduction of two Italian aid workers from their office earlier this month.
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TRIPOLI, Libya  - Police have arrested 17 non-Libyans suspected of being al-Qaida members who entered this North African country illegally, the interior minister said Sunday.
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Two Italian military personnel were believed to have been kidnapped in western Afghanistan, and police Sunday said they were searching for the pair and their two Afghan staff.
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Somali gunmen kidnapped the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague as they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday, embassy staff said.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday they had identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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The Somali security forces are hunting for the gang which kidnapped two women who work for an aid agency.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said yesterday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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An American aid worker was abducted in Afghanistanâs province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen wants international media watchdogs to press for his release, a Somali journalist related to the kidnappers said on Thursday.
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ADDIS ABABA - Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where ...Comment
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Five out of 13 Ethiopians believed to have been kidnapped with five Britons in the remote Afar region have been found by the security forces, the state news agency said.
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Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.
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A senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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A group of Eritreans being deported from Libya hijacked their aircraft and diverted it to Sudan earlier Friday, before surrendering to authorities.
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At least three foreign tourists are kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen, local officials say.
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Five Britons with diplomatic connections were missing feared kidnapped in Ethiopia last night amid security concerns.Comment