&#39;Sweet&#39; memories could lure hostage back
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Rome - One of two Italian women released after three weeks captivity in Iraq said she was ready to go back to the war-wracked country to continue her aid work, and told of being given sweets by her kidnappers as a farewell gift.
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New Delhi, Sep 3 (UNI) The three released Indian hostages returned home early today for an emotional reunion with their families ending an ordeal that kept the whole nation on the edge for more than a month.
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South Korean hostages set free by Afghan rebels after six weeks in captivity are likely to receive a mixed homecoming with many awaiting their weekend arrival with relief but also seeing them as largely to blame for their ordeal.
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A Sri Lankan truck driver held hostage by militants in Iraq for six weeks was reunited with his wife and three sons on Sunday, saying he had been beaten up at first but was then treated "very well".
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq have issued an emotional plea for his release as the deadline approaches. Philip Bigley said his brother Ken regarded the Arab world as his &quot;home from home&quot; and
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The brother of Ken Bigley said yesterday that he had a &quot;gut feeling&quot; the British hostage had been handed over to a more moderate group in Iraq.
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Family members of 19 former hostages said Saturday they were worried that their loved ones would be further traumatized by public anger when they come home after six weeks of captivity in Afghanistan.
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It is suspected that they were freed in exchange for a $1 million ransom, a belief that has cast a cloud over national celebrations of the release.
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HOPES for Ken Bigley's freedom rose yesterday after it was claimed he had been 'sold' to a less brutal gang of kidnappers.
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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Hassan, an aid worker, was kidnapped in Iraq last month. She was the director of CARE International in Iraq and had lived in Iraq for 30 years.
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By Damien McElroy, Sean Rayment and Aqeel Hussein in Fallujah. The British hostage Kenneth Bigley made a desperate bid for freedom through a farming district on the outskirts of Latifiya on Thursday.
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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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VIENNA, Sept. 6 -- Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped as a bright-eyed 10-year-old and held for more than eight years, dreamed in her underground cell of chopping off her abductor's head with an ax and despaired as she read newspaper accounts of police dredging ponds for her corpse.
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National joy in Italy at the safe return  of two aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks gave  way in some quarters on Wednesday to concern that Rome had paid  a big ransom for the women's freedom.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown on video pleading for Tony Blair&#39;s help, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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A British hostage in Iraq has again appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help free him. The videotape aired on Wednesday left his family relieved