Captors Give Italy Deadline
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BAGHDAD, 11 September 2004 - Militants yesterday gave Italy 48 hours to free Muslim women prisoners in Iraq in exchange for two Italian aid workers as the interim Iraqi president promised to do all he could to win the release of the duo.
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Two Italian aid workers have been freed in Iraq after being held for three weeks by captors who threatened to kill them if the Italian government didn&#39;t give in to their demands.
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The men can be detained until 1.30pm on October 1 after an extension was issued under the Terrorism Act. Three of the men were arrested in a &quot;pre--planned&quot; operation by officers from the Metropolitan Police&#39;s
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Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq extended their deadline by another 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported. The kidnappers threaten to kill the journalists unless France agrees to remove a ban on headscarves in schools.
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A Taliban splinter group claiming to be holding three foreign UN workers hostage has said it has extended the deadline for their threatened execution at the request of the Afghan government.
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"If it agrees with the request by the prime minister's office, the Constitutional Court would annul the trial"  An Italian judge has effectively frozen the trial of US and Italian spies charged with kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan in 2003 and then flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. via Manawatu Evening Standard
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Kenneth Bigley, a Briton taken hostage in Iraq, asked UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life, while Italy&#39;s government said it&#39;s ``cautious&#39;&#39; about the reliability of statements
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Italy&#39;s government insisted Tuesday it will keep its troops in Iraq despite a demand by militants holding an Italian journalist hostage that Italian forces pull out within 48 hours.
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The latest deadline set by the kidnappers of Annetta Flanigan from Co Armagh, and two other UN workers in Afghanistan, has expired.
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The Italian government insisted it would maintain its 3,000 troops in Iraq despite an ultimatum from an Islamic group holding an Italian journalist and demanding that Rome withdraw its forces within 48 hours.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan said they would give officials until Friday to meet their demands that the United Nations withdraw from the country and the US release Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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Friday marks the deadline for radical groups, thought to be planning a coup, to turn themselves in.
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Captors of two Italian hostages in Iraq have agreed to free the women, as early as this week, for a &#36;1 million ransom, a Kuwaiti daily said on Tuesday in a report splashed over the front pages of Italian newspapers.
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DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 6: An Iraqi group purportedly holding two French journalists hostage demanded a $5 million ransom on Monday and set a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini  appealed to Arab countries on Monday to help win the release of  two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew  near.
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Diplomatic efforts mount as a deadline nears for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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The militant Ansar al-Zawahiri group has given Italy 24 hours to promise to release Muslim women prisoners in Iraq in exchange for details about two kidnapped women aid workers, in a statement published on a ...