Italian FM calls for united front to free hostages in Iraq
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, warning against &quot;parallel initiatives&quot; to free two Italian aid workers who have been held hostage in Iraq for more than a week, appealed for reliance on the government's high-profile diplomatic campaign on their behalf.
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An Italian aid worker held hostage last month in Iraq said guerrillas there were right to fight U.S.-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government." In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio ...
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An Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq will be released in a few days, according to an Internet statement posted Monday in the name of the militant group alleged to be holding her.
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The Italian foreign minister will travel to the Middle East in an effort to secure the release of two Italian women aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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AN Italian national with a lengthy criminal record might have been taken hostage in Iraq and killed, the Italian foreign ministry said today.
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The hostage, Guiliana Sgrena, called for foreigners to leave Iraq and emphasized her antiwar reporting.
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Iraqi militants threaten to kill an Italian journalist kidnapped on Friday if Italian troops are not pulled out of Iraq.
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A top Italian official leaves for the Middle East to seek the help of Arab countries to secure the release of two female Italian aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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Rome - A defiant Italy said on Friday it would not give in to &quot;terrorist blackmail&quot; after the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq by insurgents who demanded that Rome withdraw its troops from the country.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad 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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Sobbing and clasping her hands, a kidnapped Italian journalist appeared on a video Wednesday, pleading for her life and calling on U.S.-led troops to pull out of Iraq.
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The European Union, the Arab League, the pope, Muslim and pacifist groups in Italy appealed on Wednesday for the release of two Italian women abducted in Iraq while working for a humanitarian group that helps ...
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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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ROME, Italy -- Italy&#39;s foreign minister has flown to the Middle East in an attempt to secure the release of two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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Two Italian women aid workers were reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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The Italian government said Tuesday it would maintain its 3,000 troops in Iraq despite an ultimatum from a radical Muslim group holding an Italian journalist and demanding that Rome withdraw its forces within 48 hours.
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Italian opposition leaders have said they will work with the government to try to secure the release of two women aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.