Iran frees German whose boat strayed
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A German tourist who was arrested with a Frenchman after their boat allegedly strayed into Iranian waters has been freed from prison in Iran's capital, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday.
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Somaliland forces early Wednesday freed a German aid worker from gunmen who abducted him a day earlier, officials in the breakaway republic said.
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Haleh Esfandiari left Iran yesterday, but a scholar who was arrested along with her is still being held.
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Iran releases on bail the last of four US-Iranian dual nationals detained on security charges, reports say.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in  Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate  of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened  with beheading, remained unclear on Tuesday.
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German authorities extradited a leading Islamic extremist known as the Caliph of Cologne to Turkey, ending a protracted legal battle over his case.
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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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LONDON, Sep 28 (IranMania) - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq nearly two months ago was freed Monday and returned safely to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, asserting no deal had been made with his kidnappers, Agence France Press  reported.
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An Iranian embassy official said that American troops released seven Iranians early Wednesday, hours after they were detained at a central Baghdad hotel.
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Iran has arrested three Finnish nationals for allegedly entering Iranian territorial waters during a fishing trip in the Gulf, Finland&#39;s foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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Iranian-Canadian intellectual and author Ramin Jahanbegloo is freed after nearly four months in custody, agencies report.
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Iran allowed a French-Iranian filmmaker to leave the country on Friday after preventing her departure for nearly a year, a media advocacy group said.
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Iran has expelled a German diplomat for  "non-diplomatic activities," the Foreign Ministry said on  Sunday, confirming a German news agency report.
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A German woman who was kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year has been released, but her son is still being held hostage, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, who was detained for more than three months on spying accusations and freed on bail in August, flew out of Iran overnight, one of her lawyers said on Monday.
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Iran has expelled a German diplomat for  "non-diplomatic activities," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said  on Sunday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an  Iranian diplomat from Germany in July.
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An Iranian diplomat who was seized in Iraq last month is freed, but the fate of other hostages is unclear.