UK team plans trip to kidnap site
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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Baghdad, Nov 03 - The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to turn her over to al-Qaida-linked militants notorious for beheading hostages unless Britain agreed within 48 hours to pull its troops from Iraq, Al-Jazeera television reported.
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The Federal Government has sent a team of Defence personnel, police and other officials to Iraq as it tries to verify a claim that two Australians have been kidnapped by Islamic militants.
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The last four British men held as terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay are due to arrive back in the UK.
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The parents of a four-year-old British  girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort three weeks ago  hope to meet Pope Benedict later this week, a spokesman for the  family said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The captors of relief worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to a group that beheaded several hostages if British troops don&#39;t leave Iraq, Al-Jazeera said Tuesday.
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British officials are working &quot;around the clock&quot; to try to secure the safe release of a tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert, the Foreign Office said Monday.
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London - An Iraqi militant group is expected to negotiate for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was seized by Islamic fundamentalists in Baghdad two weeks ago, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Saturday.
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The British government reportedly prepared a commando unit Monday to rescue five of its nationals kidnapped in northern Ethiopia, as Addis Ababa refused to back claims that Eritrean soldiers carried out the abduction.
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Hamas gunmen on Tuesday took up position around the stronghold of the kidnappers of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, as the Islamist movement hinted it could use force to secure the newsman&#39;s release.
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Britain is considering a direct approach to Iran for help in finding five British hostages in Iraq.
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The government said Monday it was investigating reports that members of a London-based radical Islamic group have been in contact with militants holding a British hostage in Iraq to urge his release.
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British security officials hunting for Margaret Hassan are trying to contact the intermediary who acted as the conduit with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s group during the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley.
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Britain's Foreign Office updated its travel advice for Iraq, warning its nationals that they could be targeted by kidnappers in the north of the war-torn country.
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Police are to ask for more time to hold and question nine men suspected of an &quot;Iraq-style&quot; plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier.
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British security officials hunting for Margaret Hassan are trying to contact the intermediary who acted as the conduit with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group during the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says members of a logistics team are heading to Iraq, in case any Australians have been taken hostage.