Deadline threat for Iraq hostages
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Militants threaten to execute three Western hostages unless all female Iraqi prisoners are set free.
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Several Iraqi militant groups have threatened to execute more than 20 hostages, including three Americans and 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless their demands are met before deadlines.
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Militants claiming to hold three UN workers in Afghanistan have extended a deadline until tonight to allow the government in Kabul and the UN to negotiate with them.
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BAGHDAD : The threat of death hung over a Briton and two American hostages as a 48-hour deadline set by their militant captors for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees ran out.
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.
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Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq extended their deadline by another 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported. The kidnappers threaten to kill the journalists unless France agrees to remove a ban on headscarves in schools.
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Bus hijackers tonight set a Thursday morning deadline for Greek authorities to deliver a ransom of Â£740,000, threatening to blow up the vehicle and six remaining hostages if they did not receive the money.
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Families of eight Chinese hostages in  Iraq pleaded on Thursday for their release as a deadline set by  their captors neared, and Japan said it was checking reports  one of its citizens had been kidnapped.
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The kidnappers of Margaret Hassan have threatened to hand her over to Ken Bigley&#39;s killers if their demands are not met within 48 hours.
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Militants in Iraq are threatening to kill two Turkish hostages if their company does not withdraw from the country within three days, Turkish media reported Wednesday.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to turn her over to an al-Qaida affiliated group within 48 hours if the British government refuses to pull its troops from Iraq, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD - Kidnappers with links to al-Qaeda threatened in a videotape yesterday to behead a Hillsdale, Mich., native and two other hostages in Iraq within two days unless authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan said they would give officials until Friday to meet their demands that the United Nations withdraw from the country and the US release Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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The militants holding three foreign hostages in Afghanistan today extended the deadline by which they have threatened to kill them from Wednesday to Friday.
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The kidnappers of a Northern Ireland woman in Afghanistan have again extended the deadline for their demands to be met. Annetta Flanigan from County Armagh and her United Nations colleagues, Filipino Angelito
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Their abductors also extended the deadline on their demand for the United Nations to withdraw from the country until Friday. They had earlier suggested that they might start killing the hostages on Wednesday.