Afghan, UN Officials Issue New Appeal for Release of Kidnapped ...
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One week after the abduction of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan, Afghan and United Nations officials are hoping for a breakthrough in negotiations with the kidnappers.
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KABUL, NOVEMBER 7: Afghan militants who threatened to kill three kidnapped UN workers have demanded the release of 26 Taliban prisoners and agreed to give the government until Tuesday to do so, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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The UN has issued an appeal for the immediate return of its three staff members, which included a woman from Northern Ireland, kidnapped in Kabul last week.
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KABUL - Militants claiming to hold three UN hostages in Afghanistan said they have extended a deadline until late Saturday to decide the fate of the trio, who they have threatened to kill if the United Nations doesnât pull out of the country.
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Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera Sunday aired video showing three UN election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan. In the video, the kidnappers demand for the release of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from  the Afghan government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon,  saying it would kill one captive if they were not met.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- Militants released a video Sunday showing three foreign UN hostages pleading for their release and threatened to kill them unless United Nations and British troops leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are freed from US jails.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen has demanded the release of 25 prisoners being held in Afghanistan and at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay before it could consider freeing the three UN election workers kidnapped from Kabul last week.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Ulema council, an association of clerics, called for the release of three United Nations workers held hostage since Oct. 28, saying the abduction ``can only defame Islam,&#39;&#39; according to an e-mailed statement.
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KABUL, Nov 16: The latest deadline set by Muslim militants in Afghanistan who threatened to kill three UN hostages passed with no word on their fate on Tuesday, but the government said it was hopeful they would be released.
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The United Nations appealed Thursday to the Taliban-linked kidnappers of three of its staff in Afghanistan to release them in time for a Muslim festival starting this weekend.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan on Monday allowed four days for negotiations on their demand that the United Nations withdraw from the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A US military spokesman says the US won&#39;t &quot;release anyone&quot; in response to a hostage situation involving three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from the Afghan government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon, saying it would kill one captive if they were not met.
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A Kosovar woman among three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan has called home to say she is well and expects to be freed soon, a businessman seeking her release said Tuesday.
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A UN spokesman has called on kidnappers to release three UN hostages held in Afghanistan before the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr later this week.
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Militants holding three foreign UN workers Sunday gave Afghan officials a list of 26 prisoners whom they want released, with Tuesday the new deadline.