'Released' prisoner hunt still on
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Police in Manchester continue the hunt for a "dangerous" man released from prison by mistake.
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All four remaining British detainees in  the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp will be released within  weeks, a lawyer acting for two of them told Reuters on Tuesday.
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The government has appealed to kidnappers holding hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq to make contact -- but still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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KABUL, Nov 7 - 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 on Sunday.
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A VIOLENT sex offender was being questioned by police today after absconding from a bail hostel for the third time within a year. John Phillips, 53, went missing from a hostel in Oldham where he went voluntarily to live on the same day he was released from prison last Thursday.
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Police are hunting a convicted sex offender who has absconded from an open prison in Lincolnshire.
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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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Nationalists want to know if a  minister agreed to the unescorted outing of a violent schizophrenic prisoner.
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Police hunt for a man serving a four-year prison sentence who absconded from a hospital facility.
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Human rights groups ask the US to reveal the whereabouts of 39 people allegedly held in secret CIA-run prisons.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Two Italian women aid workers were freed in Baghdad today three weeks after being taken hostage. But there was still no word of the fate of Briton Ken Bigley, threatened with beheading by his captors who have remained silent for almost a week.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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British police are investigating a claim that Ken Bigley, the British engineer held for more than two weeks by a militant Islamic group in Iraq, will be freed if the UK government releases around a dozen high-profile detainees.
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The four Britons still held by the US in Guantanamo Bay could be released within days, US defence sources say.
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Militants holding Alan Johnston says he will not be freed until their demands are met.