Kidnapped UN hostages call home
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KABUL - Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan telephoned home to say they are OK and one expressed hope she soon would be free, officials and relatives said Tuesday.
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The United Nations again appealed for the safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan said they expected to hold talks via  intermediaries with U.N. and government negotiators on Sunday  while the U.N. repeated a call for their immediate release.
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Three United Nations workers, held hostage and pictured in a video released yesterday, will be executed on Wednesday unless British forces leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are released from GuantÃ¡namo Bay, their Taliban kidnappers demanded yesterday
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Kabul - Militants who have threatened to kill three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan were due to open talks with government negotiators on Sunday, raising hopes for a peaceful solution to the 10-day-old crisis.
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A kidnapped UN worker may have been allowed to contact her family in NI, reports from Afghanistan suggest.
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Three UN employees held hostage in Afghanistan were shown on Sunday in a video aired by Al Jazeera television, which said they called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Former Afghan hostage Annetta Flanigan has spoken today for the first time since her release on Tuesday. The Northern Ireland-born UN worker read out a statement from her, Angelito Nayan and Shqipe Habibi, giving thanks for all the support they received.
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Afghan kidnappers holding three foreign United Nations workers hostage say they are now considering whether to kill, hold or release their captives.
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KABUL  - Two women among three UN workers taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two weeks ago have been able to contact their families, a government spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD : Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year&#39;s invasion became the latest victims of a five-month-old hostage crisis.
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Asia News, KABUL - A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan called home to reassure relatives they are all right, as negotiators tried Tuesday to secure their release after 12 days in the hands of Taliban-linked militants.
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A militant group threatening to kill three United Nations hostages including a Northern Irish woman Annetta Flanigan said today it was talking to the Afghan government about its demand to free Taliban prisoners.
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Description: A Taliban splinter group releases a video of United Nations election workers held hostage. The victims, seen on the al Jazeera Arabic news channel, are a British woman from Northern Island, a Kosovar woman and a Filipino man.