Killing of hostage horrifies Italy
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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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World leaders expressed horror at the bloody end to the Russian hostage crisis, calling it a tragedy which resulted from a &quot;nauseating&quot; and &quot;barbaric&quot; terrorist attack.
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A British hostage in Iraq pleaded for  his life on Wednesday, but two Italian women held by another  group were reported to have been killed.
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ATHENS - Iraqi dreams of winning only their second Olympic medal were shattered on Friday when Italy beat them in a men&#39;s soccer bronze match overshadowed by the killing of an Italian hostage in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD: At least 12 people, including an Italian hostage, were killed in Iraq on Thursday as violence continued. An Islamist group claimed that it had killed an Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro
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The Italian government has urged caution on reports that two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed, saying the claims are &quot;unreliable&quot; and part of a terrorism campaign being carried out through the media.
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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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An Arab television station said Friday it received a video showing the killing of kidnapped Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, whom militants had threatened to execute if Italy did not withdraw troops from Iraq.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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Fears grow for two Western hostages in Iraq following the beheading of their fellow captive.
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Italian authorities said Thursday they had no information allowing them to confirm the execution of two Italian hostages being held in Iraq.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 26 -- The kidnappers of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, taken hostage in Iraq, said they had killed him, al-Jazeera television reported Thursday.
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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy&#39;s efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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Concern is growing for two Italian women aid workers in Iraq taken hostage by gunmen who stormed their Baghdad offices in broad daylight.
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International press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders today expressed revulsion at the &quot;barbaric&quot; death of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni and said it had heightened fears for the safety of other missing reporters in the area.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Friday that the killing of Italian hostage Enzo Baldoni was a &quot;brutal action&quot; committed by &quot;plain terrorists&quot; who have no links with Iraqi religious or political authorities.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi vowed Italian troops would not leave Iraq even and condemned the reported killing of an Italian hostage as an act that brings "us back to the dark ages of barbarity."