Israeli journalist released
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CNN producer Riad Ali Ghanem, who was kidnapped at gunpoint in Gaza City on Monday, was released on Tuesday evening following an agreement reached between his abductors and the Palestinian Authority.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was freed in Gaza on Wednesday after 16 weeks held hostage by Palestinian extremists, looking pale and drawn but delighted that his &quot;terrifying&quot; ordeal was over.
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Kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston has been released after nearly four months in captivity, Hamas said Wednesday. Looking pale and frail, the BBC correspondent told The Associated Press he was "OK."
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An Australian TV journalist has been released after being detained by unknown group in Baghdad last weekend, SBS Television said in a statement on Monday.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- An ebullient and relieved Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent set free Wednesday after 114 days as a captive in the Gaza Strip, suggested that the turning point leading to his release was Hamas's takeover of the strip.
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Two Israelis who were jailed for two months for trying to obtain a New Zealand passport were released from prison and deported Wednesday, Prime Minister Helen Clark said.
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Palestinian gunmen freed an Israeli Arab  producer for CNN television unharmed on Tuesday a day after  kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip.
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An Iraqi group has released U.S.  journalist Micah Garen whom it was holding hostage in Iraq,  Arab satellite television Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
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An Australian journalist was seized by militants in Iraq for nearly 24 hours, but then released unharmed.
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A US journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago was released on Sunday. Micah Garen confirmed his release on Al-Jazeera television.
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Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was freed by Israeli police Saturday, hours after he was detained for trying to enter the West Bank to attend Christmas Eve ceremonies in Bethlehem, a police spokesman said.
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A veteran Hong Kong reporter jailed in China for espionage activities has been freed, local radio station RTHK reported on its website.
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Hamas TV said early Wednesday that kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston has been released after nearly four months in captivity.
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Palestinian gunmen on Tuesday released an  Israeli Arab producer for CNN television kidnapped a day  earlier in the Gaza Strip.
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A Palestinian woman who bore and raised a son while imprisoned in Israel was released with her child on Monday to joyous tears and jubilant chants of "God is Great!"
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Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli convicted of spying, in exchange for the release of six Egyptian detainees in a prisoner swap that signaled warmer ties between the countries.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, freed earlier this week in Gaza after 114 days as hostage of a radical Palestinian group, left Israel for London on Saturday, witnesses said.