Gov't prepares SAS raid to free Ethiopia hostages
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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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The State Department on Friday advised Americans that heightened security will be in place for celebrations in Ethiopia next month of the 60th anniversary of Bob Marley's birth.
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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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Kidnappers of three U.N. workers in  Afghanistan said on Thursday they expect the government to  release 26 Taliban prisoners in exchange for their hostages  before the Muslim Eid festival this weekend.
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Britain has assembled a 60-member team of special military forces to rescue five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia last week, the Daily Mirror reported Monday.Comment
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Five Europeans abducted almost two weeks ago in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions were released Tuesday, but a group of Ethiopians abducted at the same time remain hostages
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Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia's weak government moved into a second Somali town before dawn Saturday, seizing control of an airport, witnesses and aid workers said.
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A team of British officials arrived in Ethiopia on Saturday to help in the hunt for at least five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians feared kidnapped in the remote northeast of the country.
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A six-strong team of senior Foreign Office officials were sent to Ethiopia on Saturday to step up diplomatic efforts to free foreigners feared kidnapped in a remote area of the Horn of Africa country.
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A breakthrough could be imminent over the fate of five British embassy staff missing for two weeks in a remote part of Ethiopia, media reports said Tuesday.
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An Afghan government team went to an area on Sunday where 23 Koreans were kidnapped to ask tribal elders to mediate for their release while Afghan and foreign troops stood by ready for an operation to free them.
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Investigators recovered one of the Land Rovers driven by the group A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in northern Ethiopia 12 days ago have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said.Comment
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Ethiopia makes preparations for a conflict with Somalia's Islamist group, the prime minister says.
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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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Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said
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An operation is under way to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia.Comment
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The governor of one of Nigeria's oil-rich states said Wednesday he planned to arrest the parents of suspected militants to deter attacks on oil installations and government buildings.