Iraq body &#39;not Japanese hostage&#39;
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A body found in Iraq first thought to be that of 24-year-old Japanese hostage Shosei Koda is now likely to be someone else, according to Japanese officials.
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BAGHDAD: A body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as that of a young Japanese man taken hostage and the corpse has been sent to Qatar for identification, Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said yesterday.
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A report on the amount of conventional explosives missing from an Iraqi storage site did not overstate the stockpile&#39;s size as a US media report suggests, the UN nuclear watchdog says.
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A Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman admits that a body found in Iraq resembles that of a Japanese civilian taken hostage by militants, but the government has not yet positively confirmed that.
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A senior official of an Egyptian mobile phone company says he does not think the abduction of two of the company&#39;s employees in Baghdad last night was an act of political terrorism.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for identification, Japanese officials said on Saturday, after Tokyo refused a demand by his captors to pull out its troops.
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An Iraqi official said a man who is in custody is not a top deputy of former president Saddam Hussein, as had been suspected earlier.
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Japan was checking a media report on  Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after a  deadline expired for the beheading of a Japanese youth whose  captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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A mutilated body found in Iraq last month was not that of aid worker Margaret Hassan, officials have said. Dental records definitely proved the corpse US troops discovered in Falluja on 14 November was someone else&#39;s, a Foreign Office spokesman said.
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A headless body found Saturday in Baghdad has been confirmed as the kidnapped Japanese, Shosei Koda, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Sunday.
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The remains North Korea gave Japanese officials last month are not those of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota as Pyongyang had claimed, government officials said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - The decapitated body of what appears to be a young Asian male was found Saturday in Baghdad, prompting Japan to check if the body was that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry says the militant group claiming to have kidnapped three UN workers is not, in fact, the group holding the captives.
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TOKYO The Japanese government has convened an emergency session. This, after a report that a body believed to be Asian was discovered in Iraq.
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Dental records have proved that the body of a Western woman found in Iraq is not that of hostage Margaret Hassan but London still thinks she is probably dead, the Foreign Office says.
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A body inspected Saturday to determined whether it is that of the Japanese hostage was not the one found early, a senior Japanese official said.
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6 September 2004 -- Iraq says that medical tests conducted on a arrested man have proven he is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former Iraqi government official still at large.