Kidnappers release children in Haiti
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Kidnappers freed seven children who were seized on their way to school in a volatile suburb of Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Friday.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free a three-year-old British girl held hostage since Thursday, officials say.
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Four French tourists kidnapped in Yemen were freed Monday after more than two weeks in captivity, the French foreign minister said.
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Kidnappers have released a 7-year-old Lebanese boy after a week they grabbed him as he was walking home from school in Iraq, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Friday. It was not immediately clear if a ransom was paid.
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Hostage takers released a dozen foreign hostages Monday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, officials said.
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A Nigerian 3-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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Heavily armed militants took around 250 children hostage at a school in Pakistan Monday but freed them after tense negotiations with tribal elders, the interior ministry said.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have been released, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told parliament on Tuesday.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan have been freed unharmed, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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The Taliban on Sunday released three Afghan aid workers who had been kidnapped along with their two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a spokesman for the group said. The report could not immediately be verified.
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Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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Hostage-takers free 32 women and children but are still holding more than 300  people at a school in Russia.
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More than two dozen women and children have been released from the school in southern Russia where armed militants were holding more than 300 hostages for a second day, a regional government official said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two French journalists who were kidnapped by a radical Islamic group in Iraq four months ago were released Tuesday, Al-Jazeera television network reported.
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Three foreign United Nations workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks were released, police and officials told AFP.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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Seven oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Monday after two days in captivity, police said.