US frees more prisoners in Iraq
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The US frees about 230 of its prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq in the second mass release this year.
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Burma's ruling junta frees about 500 more prisoners, and says it will release veteran dissident Win Tin.
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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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Four US nationals kidnapped this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, official and diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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Fifty Iraqis will be freed from U.S. prisons in Iraq each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the office of Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Friday.
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Myanmar&#39;s military rulers will free 5,311 more prisoners, state media has reported, after the government said earlier this month thousands of others would also be released.
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YANGON  - Myanmar said it would release a second batch of prisoners taking the total announced in a week to more than 9,000. The military regime said it would free 5,311 prisoners on top of the 3,937
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U.S. authorities Thursday released two Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them back to their native Kuwait, where supporters planned to welcome them at the airport.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israel freed more than 250 Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas Islamists took over the Gaza Strip last month.
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Most remaining Pakistani prisoners held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp are freed, officials say.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers in Iraq freed seven hostages yesterday, releasing two female Italian aid workers who were abducted from their home three weeks ago, two of the women's Iraqi colleagues and three Egyptian employees of a local cell phone company.
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Two Iraqi security guards said on Tuesday they were freed by kidnappers overnight but that the gunmen were still holding an American and a Nepali also seized from a villa used by a Saudi company in Baghdad.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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The overall situation for detainees in Iraq has improved, the Red Cross chief said Thursday, citing the closure of the Abu Ghraib prison and increased access to detainees, but the organization still cannot visit more than 18,000 inmates there.
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In the first week of a special program during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. military released 260 Iraqi detainees from U.S. prisons, the military said Wednesday, compelling each to take a pledge before an Iraqi judge not to engage in misconduct and requiring a family member or a friend...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two kidnapped Italian aid workers were freed Tuesday after three weeks of captivity in Iraq, and six other hostages in the country were also released. American forces bombed a suspected militant hide-out in Fallujah and the military claimed its frequent strikes have taken a toll on the network of Jordanian-born terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
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US and Iraqi forces are holding about 600 suspected insurgents captured in security operations south of the capital, Baghdad, in the past five months, the US military said.