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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Two Italian women and two Iraqis, all working for a humanitarian group, were kidnapped Tuesday afternoon by gunmen who forced their way into a building in a middle-class neighborhood.
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Armed men abduct more than 80 women from a shelter for rescued sex workers in Cambodia's capital.
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A US female aid worker was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, officials told AFP.
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The group holding three foreign aid workers in Afghanistan says it will decide Friday whether to kill them. NEW DELHI AND ISLAMABAD - The brazen daylight kidnapping of three international aid workers in
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.
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A female US aid worker was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials told AFP.
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In one of the highest profile abductions yet, kidnappers Tuesday seized Margaret Hassan, the head of CARE International in Iraq and one of the best-known aid workers in the region.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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At least seven foreign oil workers were  kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in  Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry  sources said.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's presidential election were kidnapped by a gang of  armed men in the capital on Thursday, prompting a huge manhunt  by Afghan authorities and international peacekeepers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped several workers including a number of foreigners in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, industry and security sources said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali gunmen kidnapped a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) on Wednesday in the latest such abduction in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region.
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Gunmen abducted four Egyptian workers Sunday and militants threantened to kill an Italian journalist unless Italy withdraws it's troops from Iraq.
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The British-born head of Iraq operations for leading charity CARE International was kidnapped in Baghdad, further fueling fears that aid workers were vulnerable targets for insurgents.