Hostage execution held up
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A PAKISTANI tribal leader linked to al-Qaeda agreed to negotiate over the fate of two Chinese hostages today after allowing a deadline for a threatened execution to pass.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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BAGHDAD : Britain joined Iraq&#39;s US-backed government in facing down a chilling ultimatum to execute a British and two American hostages, as Islamists claimed the gruesome beheading of three Kurds.
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Iraqi kidnappers have beheaded a British man who was seized last month, his family said yesterday, ending what one relative called &#39;&#39;three long weeks of agony.
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Suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's group has threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours, according to a video aired by Al-Jazeera television which showed the captives blindfolded.
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq wait for news after his captors reportedly repeat a threat to kill him.
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BAGHDAD  - British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers' demands, was beheaded by his captors, his brother said Friday.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers&#39; demands, was beheaded by his captors, a witness who saw the videotaped killing said Friday.
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Militants beheaded a British hostage near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.
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The deadline set by Islamic militants for the beheading of a Japanese hostage unless their demands were met has passed with no news of the man&#39;s fate.
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British hostage Ken Bigley has been  beheaded in Iraq, three weeks after he was kidnapped by  militants demanding the release of women held by U.S.-led  forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
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Three United Nations workers, held hostage and pictured in a video released yesterday, will be executed on Wednesday unless British forces leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are released from GuantÃ¡namo Bay, their Taliban kidnappers demanded yesterday
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THE deadline set by insurgents who have threatened to execute a kidnapped Briton and two Americans ran out last night. The three were among dozens of hostages being held by militant groups.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers' demands, was beheaded by his captors, his brother said Friday.   "We can confirm that the family has now received absolute proof that Ken Bigley was executed by his captors," Phil Bigley said in a statement he read on national television in Britain...
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Iraqi humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped a month ago in Baghdad, has been ruthlessly murdered by her captors - the first woman to be executed
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Britain and Iraq are working closely on efforts to free a British hostage threatened with death within 24 hours if his kidnappers&#39; demands are not met, Tony Blair has said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...