Manhunt underway for UN hostages, as fears rise of Iraq-style kindappings
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A massive manhunt was underway for three UN foreign election workers whose daylight abduction in Kabul has sparked fears of the start of Iraq-style kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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7 October 2004 -- United Nations workers are calling on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to pull all UN staff out of Iraq. Two groups representing more than 60,000 UN staff members cited a dramatic escalation in attacks in Iraq.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers held hostage for nearly a month were preparing to fly home after their release yesterday from an ordeal that suggested Taliban-linked militants are adopting the tactics of Iraqi insurgents.
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Diplomatic efforts mount as a deadline nears for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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Men in military uniforms held up a United Nations vehicle in Kabul yesterday and abducted three election workers at gunpoint. It was the first kidnapping of UN or aid workers
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - US and Afghan forces seeking three kidnapped UN workers raided two houses in downtown Kabul on Monday, smashing through walls and doors to detain 10 people and question residents on whether they had seen the missing foreigners.
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The United Nations nuclear agency warned yesterday that nearly 400 tons of missing explosives could be in the hands of insurgents who have been targeting US-led forces in Iraq for months.
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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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THE United Nations said today it was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, abducted at gunpoint in Kabul a week ago by militants who have threatened to kill them.
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan has become the target of escalating attacks in the United States over suspected corruption in the body&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food humanitarian programme for Iraq.
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The United Nations has started work   on trying to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers   kidnapped by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July, a   senior U.N. official said on Sunday.
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Thursday's press tackles the hostage crisis in Iraq and Germany's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.
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Security forces smashed their way into houses in downtown Kabul early today, detaining several men in an apparent search for three kidnapped UN workers.
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Their abductors also extended the deadline on their demand for the United Nations to withdraw from the country until Friday. They had earlier suggested that they might start killing the hostages on Wednesday.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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The United Nations was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, it said on Thursday as it marked one week since they were abducted at gunpoint in Kabul by a Taliban splinter group which has threatened to kill them.