Hostage agony takes toll on family
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Desperate but unanswered pleas to release a British hostage threatened with death in Iraq have taken their toll on his family and put pressure on UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Families of eight Chinese labourers held hostage by militants in Iraq plead for their release.
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Colombo, Oct 31 (PTI) Relatives of a Sri Lankan truck driver taken hostage in Iraq today pleaded to his abductors to release him, saying he had been forced to work there by his Kuwaiti employer.
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With longer deployments, continued chaos in Iraq and a growing death toll, a weariness has set in among many military families.
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The family of a Canadian woman held hostage for 16 days in Iraq is offering new details into her ordeal. Roxanne Yamulky says her sister, Fairuz, was held for ransom before escaping with the help of an Iraqi national.
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The family of an American construction worker who was abducted and slain in Iraq said Monday they were praying for the remaining hostages and their families.
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THE family of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker abducted in Iraq, was increasingly concerned about her fate last night after the kidnappersâ ultimatum expired.
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Anguished relatives begged for the lives of an American and a Briton kidnapped in Iraq as the deadline passed Tuesday for another hostage to be beheaded by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The native city of British hostage Kenneth Bigley observed a day of mourning as his family struggled to come to terms with his execution.
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The family of a British man being held hostage in Iraq has pleaded with the prime minister to meet the captors demands and save the hostage s life.
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The family of a soldier wounded in Iraq has been in turmoil since hearing word of their son s serious injuries in Tikrit.
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq issue an emotional plea for his release to the militants holding him.
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LONDON: The family of a British civil engineer kidnapped in Iraq this week with two Americans issued a plea yesterday for his release.
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Grief-stricken families prepared to bury their loved ones Sunday with President Vladimir Putin vowing to toughen security after a bloody hostage drama left at least 330 people dead, about half of them children.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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Animal rights extremists are putting a horrified family through a cruel and macabre ordeal, it emerged yesterday.
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THEY have been riven with terror as the world watches the plight of Ken Bigley. But yesterday his family came together to reach out to his captors with emotional pleas for mercy.