Arafat working on release of British hostage, CNN producer
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GAZA CITY - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has offered to help secure the release of a British hostage being held in Iraq and demanded that Palestinian militants release a CNN producer kidnapped in Gaza, officials say.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work for his release.
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London - Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing &quot;everything he possibly can&quot; to save the British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, Blair&#39;s deputy said on Tuesday as the hostage&#39;s family took encouragement from an offer of help by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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A Palestinian government spokesman says he is hopeful BBC reporter Alan Johnston can be freed soon.
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Award-winning BBC journalist Alan Johnston marks 100 days in the captivity of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as colleagues hold vigils for his release around the world.
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Palestinian gunmen have released an Israeli Arab producer working for the CNN television network who was kidnapped yesterday in the Gaza Strip.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news network Al-Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work for his release.    The footage showed a sobbing Bigley talking from behind bars of what appeared to be a prison cell...
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A TV cameraman held prisoner for years at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has issued an impassioned plea for the release of a BBC journalist kidnapped in Gaza.
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CNN is demanding the immediate release of a producer who was kidnapped in Gaza City Monday. In a statement, CNN says it has not heard from the gunmen who asked for Riad Ali by name, then hustled him out of a network van.
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Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued an urgent call for the immediate release of two French journalists who were taken hostage in Iraq last week, a statement released by his office said late on Sunday.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, a Palestinian source close to negotiations for his release said.
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France says it is ready to release the medical records of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to his nephew. French officials have so far denied the files to Palestinian leaders saying only family are entitled to the see them under French privacy laws.
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A jailed Fatah chief has put a major crimp in hopes for a smooth transition of power in the wake of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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MAGHAR, Israel -- Palestinian militants yesterday released an Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN a day after abducting him at gunpoint in the Gaza Strip in an unusual ordeal that underscored the spiraling lawlessness in the Palestinian territories and the precarious position of the Druze sect in Israel.
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Top Palestinian officials are heading to France today to ascertain the real condition of the ailing leader, Yasir Arafat. The officials, including Mr.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian police were searching Tuesday for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN who was kidnapped at gunpoint from his van, and the TV network joined journalists' associations in demanding his immediate release.    It was not clear whether the kidnapping signaled a new practice by Palestinian militants - perhaps an attempt to copy Iraqi insurgents who have snatched dozens of foreigners - or whether the producer, Riad Ali, was taken for personal reasons...
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An Arabic-language news channel has broadcast a video of Kenneth Bigley, the British contractor kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago, in which he urges UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to work for his release.