'Hostage-taker' interviewed on TV
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Russian state TV airs an interview with an alleged hostage-taker, as two days of national mourning begin.
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The first TV interview with Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch, held captive for eight years, is to be aired.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian police were searching Tuesday for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN who was kidnapped at gunpoint from his van, and the TV network joined journalists' associations in demanding his immediate release.    It was not clear whether the kidnapping signaled a new practice by Palestinian militants - perhaps an attempt to copy Iraqi insurgents who have snatched dozens of foreigners - or whether the producer, Riad Ali, was taken for personal reasons...
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"Our thoughts, of course, are with Alan in his present predicament. We earnestly request his abductors to release Alan unharmed in any way"  LONDON: The family and colleagues of Alan Johnston, a BBC reporter kidnapped by Islamists in Gaza, urged his captors yesterday not to harm him after he appeared in a video wearing what he said was an explosives ... via China Daily
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Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera Sunday aired video apparently showing three UN election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan and the kidnappers&#39; demand for the release of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Arabic TV station al-Jazeera shows footage of militants claiming to have taken 10 new hostages in Iraq.
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Austrian Natascha Kampusch will give her   first interview about her eight-year hostage ordeal on   Wednesday to state broadcaster ORF, her adviser Dietmar Ecker   said on Monday, although apparently her image will not be   shown.
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The pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV channel showed a videotape Thursday of 10 hostages held by Islamic militants in Iraq. An extremist Islamic group calling itself the Islamic Army
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Dramatic video taken by hostage-takers during the Beslan school siege is broadcast on Russian TV.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.
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A German held hostage by the Taleban appeals for help in a video broadcast on Afghan television.
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DUBAI: Al Jazeera television aired a video yesterday of three UN employees held hostage in Afghanistan by kidnappers who are threatening to kill them unless Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are freed.
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A Kabul-based British hotelier and former BBC cameraman says that he acted as a go-between when a Â£830,000 ransom was offered to secure the release of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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British hostage Ken Bigley's harrowing video appeal for his own life, represents a new tactic by Iraqi militants to swing public opinion against the occupation of Iraq.
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London - Arab television station Al Jazeera has broadcast a video showing the three UN employees being held hostage in Afghanistan.
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A man Al Arabiya television said was  negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage  in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an  agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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A freed hostage tells of bandits, betrayal, and men in black hoods