Aid workers abducted in brazen raid
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad yesterday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday and freed them eight hours later in the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian territory.
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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.    West of the capital, U.S...
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Three foreign election workers are kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Gunmen seized two Egyptians in an  overnight raid on their office in Baghdad, the third in a new  series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the  Iraqi capital this month.
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Comments SAS troopers are reportedly on the trail of kidnappers who snatched five British diplomatic workers in Ethiopia.Comment
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TWO Italian women were kidnapped in Iraq yesterday when armed men in military uniforms stormed the Baghdad office of an aid group where they worked.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in Iraqi Army uniforms kidnapped two dozen employees at Red Crescent offices in downtown Baghdad yesterday, highlighting the threat to humanitarian workers swept up in Iraq's lawlessness.
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Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq&#39;s mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm&#39;s Baghdad
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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International aid workers kept a low profile today after the brazen daylight kidnapping of a British woman and two other foreign UN election staff in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in southern Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.
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Gunmen abducted six Egyptians working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.
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Gunmen in speed boats  kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil  production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday,  authorities said.
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US and Afghan forces raid houses in Kabul as part of a hunt for three UN workers kidnapped last month.