Italians brush off kidnapping threat
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Italy&#39;s government insisted Tuesday it will keep its troops in Iraq despite a demand by militants holding an Italian journalist hostage that Italian forces pull out within 48 hours.
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Kuwaiti and Italian officials on Monday urged the release of two Italian female hostages kidnapped earlier in Baghdad, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
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Concern mounts for the two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq, with no word so far from the group that seized them.
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One of three Italians kidnapped last week by suspected militants in Nigeria's volatile Niger delta region told AFP that all the hostages are &quot;fine&quot;.
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KABUL, Sept. 24 -- Italian commandos, aided by other NATO forces and aircraft, rescued two kidnapped Italian intelligence operatives Monday in a daring ambush and gun battle that left at least nine of the captors dead in western Afghanistan.
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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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Italy was on high alert as a group linked to Al-Qaeda reportedly threatened to attack, singling out Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a target, after the expiry of a deadline for Rome to pull its troops out of Iraq.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is determined to keep up Italy&#39;s efforts in Iraq despite the execution of an Italian hostage.
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THE government in Rome, which was criticised for not doing enough to save the life of an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq last month, has been swift to react to the kidnapping there of two Italian women aid workers.
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Italy's foreign minister  is going to the Middle East to try to secure the release of two Italian women seized in Iraq.
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The Italian government and opposition parties closed ranks Wednesday in hopes of securing the release of two humanitarian aid workers and two of their Iraqi colleagues kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday and freed them eight hours later in the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian territory.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with opposition officials Wednesday to plan a response to the kidnapping of two Italian women working in Baghdad.
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An Italian aid organisation said on Monday that two Italian women were kidnapped from its office in Baghdad. The women, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, worked for an NGO called &quot;Un Ponte Per...&quot; (A
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Kidnappers disguised in police fatigues kidnapped two Italian women working for a humanitarian organization in Baghdad Tuesday. Qatar&#39;s al-Jazeera television said gunmen stormed
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Italy will not bow to the kidnappers of two Italian aid workers in Iraq who are demanding that it withdraw its forces from Iraq, an Italian envoy said today.
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Italy insisted Friday the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamic kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.