Italian priest abducted in Philippines
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Gunmen abducted an Italian Roman Catholic priest who was on his way to a remote village to celebrate Sunday Mass in the southern Philippines, police said.
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An Italian priest kidnapped almost six weeks ago in the Philippines by Islamic militants was released unharmed early Friday, the Italian prime minister and officials here said.
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Three Italians working for the Agip oil company have been kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants on an oil installation in southern Nigeria in which one person was wounded.
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BRINDISI, Italy  - A Turkish hijacker seeking to communicate with Pope Benedict seized an airliner flying from Albania to Istanbul on Tuesday and diverted it to Italy before surrendering.
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Islamic militants killed 14 Philippine marines searching for a kidnapped Italian priest during a major gunbattle, and later beheaded 10 of them, the military said Wednesday.
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Two Italian soldiers are believed to have been kidnapped while on patrol in western Afghanistan, Italy's Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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Italy&#039;s secret service cooperated with US agents in kidnapping an Egyptian cleric, Italian press reports have said, despite the government of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi denying knowledge of the abduction.
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A local court in the Philippines has   freed a British man on trial for sexually abusing young girls   after three witnesses disappeared, a Roman Catholic priest said   Wednesday.
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An Italian priest kidnapped by Islamic militants broke down in tears Friday as he described his six weeks of captivity in the Philippine jungle.
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Two Italian soldiers are believed to have been abducted while on patrol in western Afghanistan, Italy's Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad on Friday, the latest in a series of brazen  abductions but the first since Iraq's election.
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Hopes for an Italian priest kidnapped in the southern Philippines were raised Saturday when it emerged that a fellow priest had been sent photographs of him apparently unharmed.
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Two Italian women working for an aid agency in Iraq have been kidnapped, the agency said Tuesday. Gunmen in olive green uniforms broke into the group's Baghdad offices and took the women along with two Iraqis, neighbors said.
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Gunmen abducted four Egyptian workers Sunday and militants threantened to kill an Italian journalist unless Italy withdraws it's troops from Iraq.
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BRINDISI, Italy  - Two Turkish hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday and diverted it to Italy.
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Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, who has been missing in Iraq since last week, has been kidnapped by militants, according to a video broadcast Tuesday on the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television station.
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A Catholic priest was hospitalized Sunday after being stabbed, the Italian Embassy in Ankara said, in the latest in a string of attacks on Christians in Turkey. Police said they had detained the suspected attacker.