Ultimatum to Howard: pull out within 24 hours or hostages die
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TWO Australians reportedly have been kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with execution within 24 hours unless John Howard withdraws Australian troops from the war-torn country.
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Their abductors also extended the deadline on their demand for the United Nations to withdraw from the country until Friday. They had earlier suggested that they might start killing the hostages on Wednesday.
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Militants holding three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaida prisoners are released from US custody by noon (0730 GMT) on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - The 48-hour deadline set by a group of Islamic militants for Japan to agree to withdraw its troops from Iraq expired Thursday night, with the group threatening to behead a 24-year-old Japanese hostage if Tokyo ignores its demand.
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Militants holding Alan Johnston says he will not be freed until their demands are met.
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The captors of a British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent kidnapped in Gaza have promised to release him within 24 hours, a person involved in the negotiations said Friday.
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SYDNEY - A deadline set by supposed hostage-takers in Iraq for Australian Prime Minister John Howard to announce a withdrawal of Australian forces from their country passed Wednesday with no announcement by Howard and no word on the hostages.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
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PRIME Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will preside over a ministerial crisis meeting today after an ultimatum on two French hostages held in Iraq was extended by 24 hours, a source close to him said.
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Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq extended their deadline by another 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported. The kidnappers threaten to kill the journalists unless France agrees to remove a ban on headscarves in schools.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley have made an appeal to his kidnappers not to harm him, as the deadline for their demands approaches.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire on Monday.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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The family of hostage Kenneth Bigley are appealing for his release in Iraq as the threat of execution hangs over him. Mr Bigley and two Americans were seized in Baghdad on Thursday and threatened with death unless their abductors&#39; demands were met.
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MILITANTS holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan offered today to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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The family of Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan faced an anxious wait today after her kidnappers threatened to hand her over to murderous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands were not met within 48 hours.