Nepal&#39;s FM urges captives&#39; release
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Nepal&#39;s Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat urged a purported Iraqi group to free 12 Nepalese seized in Iraq, although he said Kathmandu had no official confirmation of their captivity.
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Iraqi-British national Margaret Hassan who is held hostage in Iraq urged Britain to pull out troops and release Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television said Wednesday.
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Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has reported hostage-takers in Iraq are demanding Indonesia&#39;s government release Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir in exchange for two female hostages.
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The husband of charity chief Margaret Hassan, kidnapped at gunpoint in Baghdad, has made an emotional plea for her release. &quot;I would like to tell the kidnappers that we are in the holy month of Ramadan and
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Nepal&#39;s embattled government has offered to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the capital after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and around Kathmandu.
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Kidnappers holding two Indonesian women hostages in Iraq are demanding the release of a militant cleric accused of leading a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
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The husband of Margaret Hassan, a British-Iraqi aid worker snatched by kidnappers on her way to work in Baghdad this week, appealed for her release on Thursday.
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The government appealed for the release of a Briton held hostage in Iraq in a message aired on Arabic satellite television channels.
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The husband of a high-profile humanitarian worker kidnapped in Iraq is pleading for her release, as CARE International suspends its operations in the country.
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Nepal came under mounting international pressure Monday over its king's dismissal of the government and suspension of civil liberties earlier this month.
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IRAQI Prime Minister Iyad Allawi today appealed to global leaders to help his nation defeat terrorism as the world awaited the fate of British hostage Kenneth Bigley and woke to news of more kidnappings.
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As Mrs Hassan`s kidnappers maintained their silence, her husband made another plea to the group yesterday to free her &quot;in the name of Islam&quot;.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Saturday called for the release of 23 countrymen held hostage by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, saying they were medical volunteers.
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MANAMA: Bahrain last night joined international efforts to secure the release of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar urged the kidnappers to free Ken Bigley and other hostages soon.
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Nepal's embattled government offered  to meet a demand by Maoist rebels to end their blockade of the  capital on Friday after the guerrillas set off two bombs in and  around Kathmandu, officials said.
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Nepal&#39;s government has turned to popular Arabic cable television channel Al Jazeera in its attempts to secure the release of the Nepalese workers taken hostage by an Islamist militant group in Iraq.
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The family of a British civil engineer who was kidnapped while working in Iraq called on Friday for the captors to release him, stressing that they were &quot;devastated&quot; by the kidnapping.