Italian Minister in Bid to Free Hostages
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will travel to the Mideast in an effort to free two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq, the ministry announced today.
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French President Jacques Chirac has sent his foreign minister to the Middle East to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in ...
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(AGI) - Kuwait City, Sept 13 - Upon arriving in Kuwait City, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini repeated his appeal for the liberation of the two Italian volunteer workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is determined to keep up Italy&#39;s efforts in Iraq despite the execution of an Italian hostage.
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The government in Rome, which was criticised for not doing enough to save the life of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq last month, was swift to react to the kidnapping there of two Italian women aid workers.
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The Italian government launched a desperate bid to free two kidnapped woman humanitarian aid workers yesterday as a grim deadline set by terrorists for their execution drew agonizingly closer.
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on Sunday again denied it had paid a ransom for the release of two Italian women aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free a Briton and two US citizens kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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Iraqi kidnappers may have sold two Italian women hostages to militants tied to Al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Deputy Iraqi Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati has been quoted as saying.
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Several hundred people hold a rally in Rome to press for the release of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq.
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An Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq will be released in a few days, according to an Internet statement posted Monday in the name of the militant group alleged to be holding her.
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THE government in Rome, which was criticised for not doing enough to save the life of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq last month, has been swift to react to the kidnapping there of two Italian women aid workers.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini flew to the Mideast on Monday in a bid to free two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini arrived today to the Middle East, in a bid to free two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini appealed for a &quot;civilized dialogue&quot; between religions as he stood inside Kuwait&#39;s Grand Mosque at the start of a Middle East visit he hopes will help win the release of two Italian women kidnapped in
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ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini left for the Middle East on Monday in a new bid to win the release of two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq six days ago and facing an apparent threat of execution.
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Italy will do whatever is possible to secure the release of an Italian freelance journalist kidnapped byIraqi insurgents, but will not bow to demands to withdraw its troops, the Italian government said Tuesday.