UK government says closely monitoring fate of kidnapped Briton
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The British government said Monday that it was very closely monitoring the situation of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, as a deadline passed.
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The Foreign Office is checking unconfirmed reports that UK hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by Iraqi militants.
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UK police keep tabs on thousands of people who may be involved in terrorism, a senior officer says.
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped British director of CARE International, is seen in this image made from an undated video aired on Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.
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Britain and Iraq are working closely on efforts to free a British hostage threatened with death within 24 hours if his kidnappers&#39; demands are not met, Tony Blair has said.
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A British national who was kidnapped along with two Americans was beheaded, his family said Friday, ending hopes that the family&#39;s relentless fight for his release would work.
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Liverpool - The family of a British engineer anxiously awaited news on Friday of his fate at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq who abducted him eight days ago along with two Americans who have since been executed.
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British police were given more time to question nine suspects seized over an alleged &quot;Iraq-style&quot; plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier, in a case which has shocked Britain.
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LONDON Britain&#39;s government will hold an independent inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian allegedly killed by British troops.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free a three-year-old British girl held hostage since Thursday, officials say.
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Britain&#39;s government is willing to talk to the kidnappers of a British engineer, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, but officials stressed
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Britain made an impassioned plea to Iraqis for information on the whereabouts of the body of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, still missing more than one week after he was beheaded.
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The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
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Britain's Foreign Office is investigating reports on Abu Dhabi television that Ken Bigley, a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad last month, is dead, a spokesman said.
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A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save