UN vows to help rescue British embassy staff kidnapped in Ethiopia
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The UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said Sunday it was ready to assist in a potential operation to rescue a British embassy tour group abducted in Ethiopia on March 1.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- A European tour group that disappeared last week near the disputed border of Ethiopia and Eritrea appeared to be "safe and secure" but was in the hands of unknown kidnappers, Ethiopia's foreign minister said yesterday.
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Four Afghan nationals have expressed their readiness to replace the three UN abductees as hostages in abid to secure the foreigners&#39; safe release, a state-run Kabul-based daily reported Monday.
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight vowed the Government would do all it could to help free an aid chief kidnapped in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, who heads Care Internationalâs operation
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Britain sent a crisis team to Ethiopia on Saturday in an effort to obtain the release of five British embassy workers or their relatives who were kidnapped along with a group of French while on a trip to remote northeastern Ethiopia.
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The United Nations again appealed for the safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - A search party scoured a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia on Monday looking for a group of kidnapped Europeans, all linked to the British embassy in Addis Ababa.
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The government has prepared a Special Air Service (SAS) team to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in Ethopia, if diplomatic efforts to release them fail, press reports said Monday.
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Fears rose Tuesday for a British embassy group abducted last week in the Ethiopian desert after the discovery of their bullet-riddled cars near the Eritrean border.
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A British woman was among three UN election officials kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when gunmen ran their vehicle off the road in Kabul and bundled them into a car.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday that they have identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Thursday her government remained &quot;deeply concerned&quot; about the fate of five embassy staff kidnapped in Ethiopia, but voiced hope they would soon be released.
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The Foreign Office on Friday said it was checking media reports that five Europeans kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia have been found safe and well in neighbouring Eritrea.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 4 -- Eritrea on Sunday dismissed allegations that its forces had crossed into neighboring Ethiopia and kidnapped five Britons affiliated with their country's embassy and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote border region.
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The UN has issued an appeal for the immediate return of its three staff members, which included a woman from Northern Ireland, kidnapped in Kabul last week.
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The United Nations has started work   on trying to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers   kidnapped by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July, a   senior U.N. official said on Sunday.