Iraq Insurgents Say They Have Freed 8 Chinese Hostages
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Insurgents in Iraq said they released  eight Chinese hostages on Saturday, as an Islamist militant  group said it had shot dead 15 kidnapped Iraqi soldiers in  continued violence ahead of this month's election.
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China's official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday that eight Chinese had gone missing in Iraq last week, citing local sources in Baghdad.
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China responded to Iraqi insurgents'  demands that it ban Chinese from going to Iraq saying on Friday  it had already warned its nationals against traveling there and  called for the safe release of eight Chinese hostages.
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BAGHDAD/BEIJING  - Iraqi insurgents who have  threatened to kill eight Chinese hostages told the Chinese  government on Friday they would treat them "mercifully" if it  banned all Chinese nationals from Iraq.
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Islamic militant kidnappers released seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq for six weeks, an AFP correspondent witnessed in the rebel-dominated western city of Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants in Iraq freed seven foreign truck drivers Wednesday after holding them six weeks, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French reporters captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a ban on Muslim head scarves in schools.    Also Wednesday, gunmen shot at a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi as he returned from Najaf to attend the first meeting of Iraq's 100-member National Council, which is to act as a watchdog over the interim government and help shepherd the nation to elections...
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Two kidnapped Italian aid workers were freed Tuesday after three weeks of captivity in Iraq, and six other hostages in the country were also released.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 28, 2004 - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will free as many as eight of the 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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U.S. forces said on Wednesday they had detained eight Iranians overnight and seized a suitcase full of money from their central Baghdad hotel but later freed them after consultations with the Iraqi government.
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Insurgents who have threatened to kill eight Chinese hostages said on Friday they would treat them "mercifully" if China banned all Chinese citizens from entering the country.
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Insurgents released a video Tuesday showing eight Chinese workers held hostage by gunmen who claim the men are employed by a construction company working with U.S. troops, in the latest abduction of foreigners in Iraq.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents freed eight South Korean hostages in two separate batches on Wednesday, the first of 19 Christian volunteers the Taliban agreed to release.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after dropping nearly all their demands for the release of prisoners and compensation for the victims of fighting.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck  drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been  freed by their captors.
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Iraqi insurgents who have threatened to kill eight Chinese hostages told the Chinese government on Friday they would treat them "mercifully" if it banned all Chinese nationals from Iraq.
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China is still tracking down its  eight nationals - a day after they were reportedly freed in Iraq, officials say.