Rebels freed; release of hostages urged
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COLOMBIA BOGOTA -- President Alvaro Uribe pardoned 23 jailed Marxist rebels yesterday as a goodwill gesture and said he hoped guerrilla leaders will respond by freeing hostages, though the leaders previously have said they would not reciprocate. Government Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said the 23 rebels belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will be freed ...
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Colombia's leftist rebels said yesterday they would release three of the dozens of high-profile hostages they are holding as bargaining chips with the Colombian government
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After releasing three women, the Taliban said that some of the remaining 16 hostages may be freed this afternoon.
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President Hugo ChÃ¡vez of Venezuela announced Thursday that Colombian guerrillas had freed two high-profile hostages from captivity.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The Colombian government on  Wednesday offered to free 50 jailed guerrillas if Marxist  rebels release the same number of political and military  hostages, some held captive for up to seven years.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels holding 62   hostages, including three Americans and former presidential   candidate Ingrid Betancourt, called on Monday for   "face-to-face" talks with the government on a prisoner   exchange.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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KABUL, NOVEMBER 7: Afghan militants who threatened to kill three kidnapped UN workers have demanded the release of 26 Taliban prisoners and agreed to give the government until Tuesday to do so, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan released on Thursday four of the remaining seven South Korean hostages they had kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia  - With tears, smiles and long hugs, two women hostages were freed by Colombia's Marxist rebels on Thursday after years in the jungle, raising hopes for dozens more languishing in secret camps.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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Three U.N. workers kidnapped in Afghanistan have been released unharmed after more than three weeks in captivity, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said two women held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than six years were freed Thursday, saying he spoke with the former captives by phone and they were being flown out of the jungle.
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A Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan held hostage in Iraq have been released, their governments say.
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Colombian rebels release a video of  seven hostages urging the government  to make a deal to free them.