Italy in anguish over hostages
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Rome - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq, but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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(AGI) - Vatican City, Sept. 24 - In these hours, the &quot;incessant prayer of the Christian community continues&quot; for the liberation of the two Italian hostages in Iraq.
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National joy in Italy at the safe return  of two aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks gave  way in some quarters on Wednesday to concern that Rome had paid  a big ransom for the women's freedom.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad made an emotional appeal for her life and called on  foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape released  by insurgents Wednesday.
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ITALY reacted with horror today at the killing of a journalist in Iraq, but the government insisted it would stay the course in the war-torn country.
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The Italian government continued to squabble Tuesday over the case of a Milan imam allegedly kidnapped by the CIA with the help of the Italian secret services.Comment
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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy&#39;s efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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The government in Rome, which was criticised for not doing enough to save the life of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq last month, was swift to react to the kidnapping there of two Italian women aid workers.
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Recalling the horror the nation felt when its first hostage was killed in Iraq, word that a second Italian hostage was slain brought condemnation
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The safe release of two Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq led to questions Wednesday over whether a ransom was paid, highlighting the dilemma of many governments if the price of saving lives means caving in to terrorists.
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ROME Italy expressed disgust and outrage on Friday after an Italian journalist held hostage by a radical Islamic group in Iraq was executed.
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Two Egyptians are seized in the Iraqi capital as anguish mounts in the UK and Italy over their kidnapped nationals.
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Two Italian women aid workers were  reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his  life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage  crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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Italian authorities said Thursday they had no information allowing them to confirm the execution of two Italian hostages being held in Iraq.
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Concern mounts for two female Italian aid workers seized at gunpoint with two Iraqi colleagues in Baghdad.
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One of two Italian women freed from captivity in Iraq said Thursday they feared for their lives throughout their three-week abduction, despite
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ROME -- Italian politicians pledged yesterday to put aside their differences over the Iraq war and work together to free two female aid workers abducted in Baghdad, the third time Italian citizens have been taken hostage in Iraq over the past six months.