British hostage deadline passes
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq are waiting for news after a deadline set by his captors passed. On Saturday, the kidnappers said they would kill Ken Bigley, from Liverpool, and two Americans unless
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Kidnappers who have threatened to kill three UN workers in Afghanistan have agreed to give the Government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the kidnappers said.
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KABUL, 15 November 2004 - Jaish el-Muslimeen captors threatening to kill three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan set a fresh deadline yesterday for their demands and blamed the United States for slowing up negotiations.
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A deadline set by militants who have threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire on Monday.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley was anxiously awaiting news of his fate tonight after the apparent deadline for his execution in Iraq passed.
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MILITANTS have reportedly set a 48-hour deadline after taking two French journalists hostage in Iraq and demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools.
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Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq extended their deadline by another 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported. The kidnappers threaten to kill the journalists unless France agrees to remove a ban on headscarves in schools.
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BAGHDAD An execution deadline for two Americans and a Briton kidnapped by militants expired Monday with no word on their fate, but an Islamist group released 18 Iraqi soldiers it had threatened to kill.
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Britain and Iraq are working closely on efforts to free a British hostage threatened with death within 24 hours if his kidnappers&#39; demands are not met, Tony Blair has said.
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Militants claiming to hold three UN workers in Afghanistan have extended a deadline until tonight to allow the government in Kabul and the UN to negotiate with them.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Relatives pleaded Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton held hostage as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the U.S...
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan on Monday allowed four days for negotiations on their demand that the United Nations withdraw from the country.
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Militants threatening to kill three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan set a fresh deadline for their demands to be met and blamed the United States for slowing up negotiations.
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An execution deadline for two Americans  and a Briton kidnapped by militants expired Monday with no word  on their fate, but an Islamist group released 18 Iraqi soldiers  it had threatened to kill.
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The kidnappers of an NI woman in Afghanistan again extend the deadline for their demands to be met.
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BAGHDAD, 24 September 2004 - The British government yesterday ruled out negotiations with the kidnappers of Kenneth Bigley in Iraq despite a personal appeal from the captive to Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life.