Agency pleads for hostage release
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Care International appeals on Arabic television for the release of its Iraq director, Margaret Hassan.
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The employer of 10 Turkish workers kidnapped simultaneously in Iraq last week made an emotional plea for their release on Tuesday, promising to freeze operations
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown on video pleading for Tony Blair&#39;s help, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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International aid organisation CARE is trying to secure the release of its Iraq director who was kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday morning.
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The United Nations has reiterated a plea for the safe release of three UN workers taken hostage by alleged Islamic militants, as the crisis dragged into its third week with little known about the hostages' fate.
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The family of hostage Kenneth Bigley are appealing for his release in Iraq as the threat of execution hangs over him. Mr Bigley and two Americans were seized in Baghdad on Thursday and threatened with death unless their abductors&#39; demands were met.
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LONDON: The British and Irish governments called yesterday for the immediate release of Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq, with London saying the videotape showing her crying was &quot;extremely distressing&quot;.
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A council of Pakistani tribesmen sought on Tuesday to secure the release of two Chinese engineers taken hostage at the weekend by al Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan&#39;s border with Afghanistan.
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The British and Irish governments have called for the immediate release of Magaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq.
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Families of eight Chinese labourers held hostage by militants in Iraq plead for their release.
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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LONDON -- A videotape broadcast yesterday showed a British hostage in Iraq shackled in a cage and wearing an orange jumpsuit, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life and accusing him of not doing enough to secure his freedom.
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.
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THE Australian Government might help plead for the release of kidnapped CARE Australia worker Margaret Hassan, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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The families of five British men taken prisoner in Iraq in May have appealed to their captors to release them.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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Family members of American and British hostages appealed for their lives after militants vowed to kill one of them today.