Abducted Journalist Calls Colleague
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A colleague of an Italian journalist abducted in Iraq said she received a call from the cell phone of Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday &#151; but heard no voices, only Arabic music in the background &#151; as Italians hoped the strongly anti-war stance of Sgrena's paper could help win her release.
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One of three UN workers held hostage by a Taliban splinter group in Afghanistan telephoned a friend in her home town in Kosovo on Monday and said she is well and not being badly treated, a relative said.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Dozens of Afghan journalists and activists on Saturday sought the release of a journalist detained by security officials for allegedly making blasphemous comments.
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An Al-Jazeera cameraman held at Guantanamo Bay calls for the release of abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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A French journalist was kidnapped Sunday in northern Somalia by gunmen who apparently were demanding a $70,000 ransom, authorities and a media watchdog said.
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An Italian journalist missing in Iraq since last Thursday was probably the victim of a kidnapping in which his driver was killed, his newspaper Diario said.
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France says it does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, and has urged journalists not to travel to Iraq.
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Efforts are under way to locate two CBS journalists missing, feared kidnapped, in the Iraqi city of Basra.
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A spokesman for the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBCâs Gaza reporter was arrested, as were two others.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a new Internet video Monday wearing what he said was an explosive vest and warning that he will be killed if there is an attempt to secure his release by force.
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The UK foreign secretary is being urged to take action over a British journalist being held by the Israeli authorities.
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BAGHDAD - A US journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago was released Sunday. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Micah Garen, 36, thanked representatives of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for working to secure his release.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- The release Monday of a new video showing BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared to dash hopes raised last week that his release was imminent.
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Kirsten Zaat, a long-time humanitarian aid worker, makes a personal plea for the release of kidnapped colleague Margaret Hassan. When I began my career, Margaret Hassan had already been living in Baghdad for 15 years.
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An Iraqi journalist working in Baghdad for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was reported missing on Monday morning after police officers found the body of her driver.
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An Iraqi armed group has kidnapped an Italian journalist missing since last week and has threatened to kill him unless Italy withdraws its troops from Iraq in 48 hours, al-Jazeera reported.
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SYDNEY -- Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him Googled his name on the Internet to investigate his work before deciding to release him unharmed, the journalist's executive producer said yesterday.