Red Crescent halts Baghdad work after abduction
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The Iraqi Red Crescent suspended operations in Baghdad after gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped about 30 people from one of its offices in the capital on Sunday, an official of the humanitarian body said on Monday.
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in Iraqi Army uniforms kidnapped two dozen employees at Red Crescent offices in downtown Baghdad yesterday, highlighting the threat to humanitarian workers swept up in Iraq's lawlessness.
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An employee with one of the world&#39;s largest relief and development groups has been kidnapped in Baghdad. Care International says its director in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, was captured this morning.
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A Turkish construction company announced today that it was halting operations in neighbouring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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The woman who heads the relief effort in Iraq for CARE is kidnapped in Baghdad and four Iraqi guardsmen are killed in a mortar attack.
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CARE today suspended its humanitarian relief efforts in Iraq one day after gunman kidnapped the British-born woman who for decades has led the group&#39;s drive to improve living conditions here.
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CARE Internationalâs operations in Iraq remained suspended tonight as kidnapped aid chief Margaret Hassanâs second day in captivity drew to a close with no word on her fate.
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ANKARA, Turkey A Turkish construction company is halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of ten employees kidnapped by militants.
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CARE International suspended aid operations in Iraq after its country director Margaret Hassan, who has dual Iraqi and British nationality, was kidnapped, said Grant Thomas, a spokesman for the organization.
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Margaret Hassan, who works for charity Care International, was taken hostage while on her way to work in Baghdad. Here are the main events since her kidnapping.
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The International Committee of the  Red Cross (ICRC) has temporarily suspended its activities in  Ethiopia's Somali region where two aid workers were kidnapped,  officials said on Friday.
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: Chinese engineers have stopped work on a dam project in a Pakistani tribal region over fears for their safety following the kidnapping of two colleagues by al-Qaida-linked abductors, an official said today.
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The international relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres is stopping its activities in Iraq because of &quot;escalating violence&quot; in the country that is endangering its staff and other aid workers.
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Leading relief agency CARE International halted work in Iraq after its head of operations there was abducted, further fuelling fears that aid workers were becoming soft targets for hostage-takers.
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A man believed to be a US contractor of Lebanese origin has been seized by gunmen in Baghdad overnight, Iraqi police have reported.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian officials and a spokesman for the organization said.