Aid worker&#39;s husband hopeful of release
187465
The Iraqi husband of kidnapped aid chief Margaret Hassan said he was cautiously optimistic she would be released quickly given her long years of service to the people of Iraq .
484056
The US-led military in Afghanistan has expressed hope that three foreign UN workers being held hostage by suspected Taliban remnants would be freed soon.
201119
BAGHDAD, Iraq The husband of a kidnapped aid worker believed to have been killed in Iraq is pleading to know the truth. British officials say a video sent to Al-Jazeera television shows Margaret Hassan (hah
553080
Relatives of hostage Kenneth Bigley's Thai wife gathered at her home village in northeast Thailand to pray for his release from Iraqi captors, as fortune tellers told the distraught family that he was still alive.
758834
The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
448530
The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
282334
N'DJAMENA  - Chad's government said on Thursday there were hopes a U.S. missionary held by a northern rebel group could be released in the next few days.
594145
The release of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto&#39;s husband has rekindled hopes for political reconciliation in Pakistan, but it remains unclear how far President Pervez Musharraf will go to mend ties, analysts say.
735173
The brother of Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, said on Monday he was increasingly hopeful the engineer would be released soon and that he was ready to travel to the Middle East at a moment&#39;s notice.
148707
The charity worker, who has dual British and Iraqi nationality, was snatched in Baghdad on Monday. Today her Iraqi husband Tahsin Ali Hassan told of his fear at her capture
314699
BEIJING -- The wife of a Boston-area democracy activist jailed in China said yesterday she plans to seek medical parole for her husband after seeing him for the first time since he was detained in 2002.
8003
South Korean hostages set free by Afghan rebels after six weeks in captivity are likely to receive a mixed homecoming with many awaiting their weekend arrival with relief but also seeing them as largely to blame for their ordeal.
24360
Some of the 20,000 Iraqis who have benefited from projects set up by kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan are to demand her release in Baghdad tomorrow after televised pleas from her colleagues and husband drew no response last night from her still
402162
A statement purportedly linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi group posted on a website Friday urged the captors of the British aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq to release her &quot;unless she is proven to be a collaborator&quot;.
177203
The wife of British hostage Kenneth Bigley has begged his captors to show mercy and set him free. Sombat, who has been married to the civil engineer for seven years, said he is an ordinary, hard-working family man.
90879
ISLAMIC Relief USA, part of the Islamic Relief Worldwide charity and development group, today called for the release of Margaret Hassan, employed by CARE Australia as head of CARE&#39;s humanitarian relief operations in Iraq.
190958
This came as groups working with Care announced plans of a protest in Baghdad on Monday demanding Hassan&#39;s release. Tahsin Hassan said: &quot;It is painful to see my wife cry.