Italy wants status of kidnapped reporter
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The militants who kidnapped an Italian reporter must prove he is still alive before any negotiations for his release can begin, Italy's ambassador to Afghanistan said Saturday.
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A group that has kidnapped an Italian journalist in Iraq said it will attack Italy within 48 hours unless it withdraws its troops, Italian news agency Ansa reported, citing a video transmitted by al-Jazeera.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini met Emirati officials as part of continued efforts to secure the release of two women hostages threatened with execution in Iraq.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad this month made an emotional appeal for her life and  called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape  released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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France says it does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, and has urged journalists not to travel to Iraq.
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Two young Italian women kidnapped in Iraq last week have been taken by their captors to the flashpoint city of Fallujah, according to an Italian newspaper that quoted non-Italian intelligence services.
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ROME: An Italian freelance journalist remained missing in Iraq yesterday, authorities said, while the vanished reporter&#39;s editor expressed hope that the man had not been taken hostage.
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A U.S. journalist abducted by militants in Iraq and threatened with death said in a video aired Friday that his captors were treating him well, while an Italian journalist also was reported missing in the war-torn country.
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The Italian press was unusually united last week, offering near-unanimous support for the government&#39;s reported decision to pay a ransom to secure the release of Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, the two hostages held in Baghdad.
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Italy has reacted with joy to the release of two aid workers kidnapped in Iraq, but France&#39;s government was cautious on a report that two captured French journalists may also soon be freed.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with opposition officials Wednesday to plan a response to the kidnapping of two Italian women working in Baghdad.
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Italy insisted on Friday that the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamist kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.
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A friend of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Friday, received a call on Saturday from Sgrena's telephone but it was unclear who was at the other end of the line.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini appealed to Arab countries on Monday to help win the release of two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew near.
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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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An Italian envoy has flown to the Middle East to seek help in securing the release of two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in Baghdad made an emotional appeal for her life and called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape released by insurgents on Wednesday.