Kidnappers Extend Deadline for French Hostages
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Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq gave France another 24 hours on Monday to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools, Al Jazeera reported.
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MILITANTS holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan offered today to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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TWO French hostages held in Iraq were shown in a video today urging their government to revoke a ban on the Islamic scarf, while their kidnappers extended their deadline.
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Afghan militants threatening to kill three UN hostages, including Northern Ireland&#39;s Annetta Flanigan, pushed back the deadline for their deaths until midnight today - 7.30pm Irish time.
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Relatives of two French reporters held hostage in Iraq waited anxiously on Wednesday for news of their fate after a deadline for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools apparently passed without incident.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier made an impassioned plea to try to save the lives of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq as an ultimatum issued by their kidnappers neared expiry.
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A statement posted on a Web site  purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two  French hostages set a $5 million ransom on Monday and a 48-hour  deadline for its demands to be met.
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Taleban militants holding 23 South Koreans hostage in Afghanistan extend the deadline for reaching a deal.
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Militants claiming to hold three U.N. hostages in Afghanistan postponed a Friday deadline for carrying out their threat to kill the trio, giving United Nations and Afghan officials another day to open negotiations.
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The kidnappers of an NI woman in Afghanistan again extend the deadline for their demands to be met.
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France intensified efforts Tuesday to save two journalists held hostage in Iraq, convening crisis talks in Paris and around the Arab world as a 24-hour execution deadline set by militants neared.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French journalists and given the French government 48 hours to  end its ban on Muslim headscarves in school, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.
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LONDON - The Iraqi Islamic militant group holding two French journalists hostage has demanded a $5m (Â£2.8m) ransom for their release, to be paid within 48 hours, as well as a set of hard-to-meet demands.
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DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 6: An Iraqi group purportedly holding two French journalists hostage demanded a $5 million ransom on Monday and set a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EST on Monday.
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A Taliban splinter group that has  threatened to kill three U.N. hostages again extended a  deadline on its demands after the government said it would  respond to them on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said on  Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD : The clock was ticking down for two French hostages whose Islamist abductors have served Paris with an ultimatum to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools, while Iraq&#39;s government continued efforts to end the chaos prevailing in the country.