Joint Irish-Palestinian appeal for release of kidnapped aid chief
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DUBLIN  - A joint appeal for the release of Dublin-born humanitarian aid worker Margaret Hassan kidnapped in Iraq was issued by the Irish and Palestinian foreign ministers.
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ATLANTA - CARE USA has forwarded a statement from Care International&#39;s office in Amman, Jordan, calling for the release of Margaret Hassan, who was seized by gunmen on Tuesday in Baghdad.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia Tuesday said authorities were working hard for the release of a CNN producer and urged the kidnappers to free him.
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams appeals on Al-Jazeera TV for the release of British hostage Ken Bigley.
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IRISH hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners in a new videotaped plea.
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DUBLIN, Ireland A new videotape of a high-ranking aid worker kidnapped in Iraq sets some deadlines and is reportedly too graphic for one TV station to broadcast.
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The British government and the brother of a British hostage in Iraq have appealed for his release on pan-Arab satellite television.
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of British hostage Ken Bigley, a senior Irish politician says. Michael Higgins, foreign affairs spokesman for the Labour Party in Dublin, said the Palestinian leader made his pledge in a letter to him.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has promised to offer help to win the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley held by militants in Iraq, the BBC quoted a senior Irish politician as reporting on Tuesday.
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LONDON: The British and Irish governments called yesterday for the immediate release of Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq, with London saying the videotape showing her crying was &quot;extremely distressing&quot;.
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THE husband of Margaret Hassan, the charity chief abducted at gunpoint in Baghdad, made an emotional plea yesterday for her release.
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Palestinian Islamist faction Hamas called on Friday for the release of an abducted British reporter the day after the group took control of the coastal territory and ousted rival secular faction Fatah.
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The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday intervened in efforts to secure the release of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley by calling on his kidnappers to contact him.
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A special mass has been held in Dublin for an aid worker who has pleaded for her life after being kidnapped in Iraq.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority were engaged in intensive efforts Monday night to bring about the release of an Israeli Druze employee of CNN who was kidnapped by armed Palestinians in Gaza on Monday.
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The militant group al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret