Somali troops hunt kidnappers of aid workers
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali security forces were hunting the kidnappers of two foreign aid workers for a second day on Thursday, local officials said.
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Five Ethiopians out of 13 believed kidnapped alongside a party of five Britons in one of Ethiopia's most hostile regions have been found, while a manhunt for the rest of the team has been intensified.
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A Somali clan elder has met with a French journalist being held by kidnappers who have increased their ransom demand to $1 million, the elder said Wednesday.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - A search party scoured a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia on Monday looking for a group of kidnapped Europeans, all linked to the British embassy in Addis Ababa.
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Israeli troops hunting militants raided a West Bank hospital Monday, searching rooms and calling on fugitives over loudspeakers to surrender, and in Gaza soliders
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Nato troops are hunting for three UN workers, one of them British-Irish, kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction yesterday.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in southern Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.
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US and Afghan forces raid houses in Kabul as part of a hunt for three UN workers kidnapped last month.
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The group that claimed responsibility for the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan threatened today to kill the captives unless Nato and Afghan troops call off their search.
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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A female US aid worker was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials told AFP.
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) southwest of the Afghan capital Kabul, but will release them soon, a Taliban spokesman said on Thursday.
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Bandits from all factions are increasingly targeting relief convoys and aid workers in Sudan's conflict.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped three foreign election workers in Afghanistan said Friday that it would execute the hostages if the authorities pursued their search for the kidnappers.
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Afghan forces backed by foreign peacekeepers fanned through a valley west of Kabul in a massive manhunt for three UN election workers kidnapped by gunmen from outside their office in the Afghan capital.