Italian Hostage Begs for Life; Shi'ites to Name PM
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad this month made an emotional appeal for her life and  called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape  released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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Italy's prime minister said on Tuesday he had appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to spare the lives of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with HIV.
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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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ROME: The killing of the second Italian hostage in Iraq in four months has horrified a nation and fuelled debate Friday over Italy&#39;s role in the war-torn country.
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The family of a Japanese man being held hostage in Iraq begged for his life on Friday after the expiry of a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened to behead him unless Japan withdrew its troops.
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BAGHDAD: A chained British hostage in Iraq begged Tony Blair for help yesterday, cranking up the emotional pressure on the prime minister as Italians celebrated the release of two women aid workers after paying a ransom.
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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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ROME - Italy reacted with horror Friday at the killing of an Italian hostage in Iraq, while the Italian government insisted it would stay the course in the Middle Eastern country.
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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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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq&#39;s leader and US
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Arab television has aired a video of the director of CARE International in Iraq, pleading for her life. Margaret Hassan, who&#39;s done humanitarian work for 30 years in Iraq, was kidnapped earlier this week.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted on Thursday that they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life in a video released by his captors.    Meanwhile, Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said that increasing violence must not be used as a pretext for delaying elections scheduled for late January...
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An anguished nation clung to hope Thursday that two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq were still alive, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government urged caution in assessing two separate Internet statements claiming that the women had been killed.
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DOHA: Qatar yesterday expresed sympathy with Italy and joined its leaders in calling for the release of two Italian women held hostage by kidnappers in Iraq.
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Several thousand people marched in a candlelight vigil in Rome Friday, calling for the release of two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s radical Shiite Muslim leader, Moqtada Sadr, is calling for the release of two French reporters being held hostage in Iraq.
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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