Long-held journalist freed in Gaza deal
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GAZA -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed and handed over to Palestinian officials early today after a late-night deal with the Al Qaeda-inspired, clan-based group that kidnapped him in March.
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A Chinese journalist working for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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Fatah and Hamas members abducted by gunmen were freed late on Monday as part of deal between the two side, Fatah and Hamas sources said.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Kidnapped BBC reporter Dilawar Khan Wazir is released a day after going missing in Pakistan.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- American journalist Paul Salopek was released yesterday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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CNN television said on Tuesday its  producer kidnapped at gunpoint in Gaza a day earlier had been  released.
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BAGHDAD/CAIRO - US journalist Micah Garen was set free Sunday after being held hostage by kidnappers in Iraq for more than a week, news reports said.
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A Chinese journalist for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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Palestinian gunmen on Tuesday released an  Israeli Arab producer for CNN television kidnapped a day  earlier in the Gaza Strip.
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Freed BBC reporters Alan Johnston is honoured by Amnesty International for his reporting from Gaza.
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An Israeli businessman who spent eight years in an Egyptian jail after being accused of espionage was released Sunday as part of an agreement between the two countries.
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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.
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Hamas's top leader in the West Bank was released from an Israeli prison Thursday after completing a two-year sentence, potentially bolstering the Palestinian militant group's standing in the West Bank.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, freed earlier this week in Gaza after 114 days as hostage of a radical Palestinian group, left Israel for London on Saturday, witnesses said.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.