Italian FM to Middle East to seek release of aid workers in Iraq
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ROME : Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini was to leave for the Middle East, as Rome pressed on with efforts to win the release of two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq, his ministry said.
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ROME, Italy -- Italy&#39;s foreign minister has flown to the Middle East in an attempt to secure the release of two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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Italy launched a fresh diplomatic drive to save the lives of two women hostages threatened with execution in Iraq, with Foreign Minister Franco Frattini due in Kuwait on the first leg of a Middle East tour.
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Aid charity Care International made an emotional plea tonight for the release of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan. The statement, read on the Arab television station Al-Jazeera by
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ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini left for the Middle East on Monday in a new bid to win the release of two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq six days ago and facing an apparent threat of execution.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini appealed to Arab countries on Monday to help win the release of two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew near.
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Italy will do whatever is possible to secure the release of an Italian freelance journalist kidnapped byIraqi insurgents, but will not bow to demands to withdraw its troops, the Italian government said Tuesday.
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Several thousand people marched in a candlelight vigil in Rome Friday, calling for the release of two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini  appealed to Arab countries on Monday to help win the release of  two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew  near.
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ROME -- Italian politicians pledged yesterday to put aside their differences over the Iraq war and work together to free two female aid workers abducted in Baghdad, the third time Italian citizens have been taken hostage in Iraq over the past six months.
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French President Jacques Chirac sent his  foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win  freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding  France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco  Frattini drummed up Gulf Arab support Tuesday for the release  of two Italian hostages facing a death threat in Iraq.
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Iraq's President Ghazi Yawar pledges to do all he can to help secure the release of two kidnapped Italian women aid workers.
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ROME : A top Italian official leaves for the Middle East to seek the help of Arab countries to secure the release of two female Italian aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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Tens of international aid organizations in Iraq have been considering to leave the war-torn country since two Italian women were kidnapped Tuesday.
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ROME, Italy -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met here Friday with the interim president of Iraq, Ghazi Al-Yawar, amid mounting public pressure on his government and intense diplomatic efforts to free two women aid worker hostages.
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Italian politicians agree to work together to try to secure the release of two women kidnapped in Iraq.