Italy firm on Iraq after &#39;barbaric&#39; hostage murder
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Italy insisted Friday the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamic kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.
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Italian authorities responded cautiously to reports that an Italian national may have been taken hostage and killed in Iraq.
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An Islamist group in Iraq said it had killed two female Italian hostages in a statement posted on an Internet site, but the women's employers in Italy said on Thursday they had not given up hope.
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The Italian government will not withdraw troops from Iraq after threats of attack by an armed group that kidnapped an Italian journalist, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s office said in a faxed statement.
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BAGHDAD: At least 12 people, including an Italian hostage, were killed in Iraq on Thursday as violence continued. An Islamist group claimed that it had killed an Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro
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The confirmation came from a spokesman for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who described the killing as &quot;an act of barbarity&quot;.
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The Iraqi kidnappers of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni killed him because Italy refused to heed their earlier deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq, Al Jazeera television said on Friday.
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Italians celebrated Wednesday the release of two female aid workers who had been held hostage in Iraq with the country&#39;s two leading newspapers expressing the relief felt nationwide with the headline &quot;They&#39;re Home&quot; alongside pictures of the two smiling
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Italy reacted with joy to the release  of two aid workers kidnapped in Iraq, but France's government  was cautious on Wednesday on a report that two captured French  journalists may also soon be freed.
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Rome - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for 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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Two Italian women aid workers were reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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One of three Italians kidnapped last week by suspected militants in Nigeria's volatile Niger delta region told AFP that all the hostages are &quot;fine&quot;.
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An anguished nation clung to hope Thursday that two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq were still alive, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government urged caution in assessing two separate Internet statements claiming that the women had been killed.
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Italy was in shock at the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi slammed as a return "to the dark times of barbarism," but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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Recalling the horror the nation felt when its first hostage was killed in Iraq, word that a second Italian hostage was slain brought condemnation from the pope Friday and fueled debate over Italy's role in the war-torn country.
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ROME, Italy -- Italy reacted with horror at the killing of hostage Enzo Baldoni in Iraq, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisting that Italian troops would not leave.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in Baghdad three weeks ago have been freed on Tuesday and are safe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says.