Arafat offers to help seek UK hostage&#39;s release: Irish politician
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has promised to offer help to win the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley held by militants in Iraq, the BBC quoted a senior Irish politician as reporting on Tuesday.
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An Irish political party leader is to urge British Prime Minister Tony Blair to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from republican areas of Northern Ireland.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday there could be an "imminent solution" for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
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The government said Monday it was investigating reports that members of a London-based radical Islamic group have been in contact with militants holding a British hostage in Iraq to urge his release.
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Hopes for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage, rose yesterday after Dublin responded to requests from his kidnappers for proof of his Irish ancestry by issuing a passport in his name.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini  appealed to Arab countries Monday to help win the release of  two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew  near.
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of British hostage Ken Bigley, a senior Irish politician says. Michael Higgins, foreign affairs spokesman for the Labour Party in Dublin, said the Palestinian leader made his pledge in a letter to him.
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The family of a British hostage held in Iraq has appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to help secure his release. The brother of hostage Kenneth Bigley spoke to the Libyan leader&#39;s son, Saif Gadhafi, and asked him to get his father involved.
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The brother of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq said he was encouraged about a possible release after two Italian aid workers were freed after three weeks, while Prime Minister Tony Blair said the British government was trying to contact the man's abductors.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams appeals on Al-Jazeera TV for the release of British hostage Ken Bigley.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel is ready to release many jailed Palestinians in return for a soldier seized by militants in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Monday, saying he was reaching out for peace.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered negotiations and a prisoner release if Palestinians turned away from violence.
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of British hostage Ken Bigley, a senior Irish politician says.
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Seeking to repair the political damage from a massive Belfast bank robbery, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern prepared Tuesday to meet with Sinn Fein leaders, in his first talks with the IRA-linked party since the Dec. 20 theft.
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Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi appealed for the liberation of Kenneth Bigley, the British engineer being held hostage in Iraq, official media said.