Australian hostage freed in Iraq
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An Australian journalist was held hostage in Iraq for nearly 24 hours but has now been released unharmed. John Martinkus was seized outside his Baghdad hotel on Saturday, according to his employer, SBS television.
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Kidnappers release a Turkish driver in Iraq, a day after his employers said they would pull out of the country.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq by a militant group since late October has been freed, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said Saturday.
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An Iranian diplomat was freed in Iraq on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militants holding two French newsmen.
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Iraqi kidnappers have released a Bangladeshi truck driver after holding him hostage for more than a month, a foreign ministry official said on Friday.
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Kidnappers have released a Turkish hostage who was under threat of beheading in Iraq after his two employers agreed to captors&#39; demands to stop working in the country, Al Arabiya television says.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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BAGHDAD - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of  Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the  premier's office said on Sunday.
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A militant group said Thursday it had released a Canadian hostage, claiming that her company had met its demand to withdraw from Iraq.
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Two Italian aid workers have been freed in Iraq after being held for three weeks by captors who threatened to kill them if the Italian government didn&#39;t give in to their demands.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq since mid-October is  released and flown to Warsaw.
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AN Australian journalist was held hostage in Baghdad for 24 hours at the weekend before being released unharmed, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq by a  militant group since October has been freed and said on  Saturday her captors had treated her well.
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Two Lebanese hostages have been released after more than three weeks in captivity in Iraq, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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A Turkish man taken hostage in Iraq has been freed, according to a videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News on Wednesday.
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A CANADIAN woman who had been kidnapped in Iraq was freed by a US National Guard unit late yesterday after 16 days in captivity, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told CTV television today.