Italy Seeks Unity Amid Outrage Over Kidnappings of Italian Aid Workers
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi called for a united front against terrorism and Pope John Paul II led prayers for their release, as Italians expressed outrage over the kidnapping of two female Italian aid workers in ...
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Italy&#39;s government tried to reassure an anguished nation Thursday that two women hostages in Iraq were most likely still alive, saying an Islamist group&#39;s claim to have killed them was &quot;unreliable.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, warning against &quot;parallel initiatives&quot; to free two Italian aid workers who have been held hostage in Iraq for more than a week, appealed for reliance on the government's high-profile diplomatic campaign on their behalf.
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Piecing together old video footage, an  Italian aid group released emotive images to Arab television on  Sunday of its two female Italian charity workers and two Iraqi  colleagues kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Italy's small Muslim community took part  in demonstrations around the country on Saturday to add its  voice to a chorus of calls for the release of two Italian  female aid workers abducted in Iraq last week.
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The purported execution of the two women, both aid workers abducted more than two weeks ago in Baghdad along with two Iraqi colleagues, caused consternation in Italy, with Italian TV and radio running special bulletins through the night.
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DAVID HARDAKER: Celebrations have continued in Italy overnight following the homecoming of the two Italian aid workers who were taken hostage in Iraq three weeks ago.
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Illegal immigrants are vulnerable and at risk from those offering help Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.Comment
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ROME -- Italian politicians pledged yesterday to put aside their differences over the Iraq war and work together to free two female aid workers abducted in Baghdad, the third time Italian citizens have been taken hostage in Iraq over the past six months.
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Italy was in shock at the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, described by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a return "to the dark times of barbarism," but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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An anguished nation clung to hope Thursday that two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq were still alive, as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government urged caution in assessing two separate Internet statements claiming that the women had been killed.
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Squabbling Italian politicians pledged Wednesday to put aside their differences over the Iraq war and work together to free two female aid workers
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For three weeks, Italians across the country marched, held vigils and lit candles, and politicians united to promote freedom for a pair of humanitarian aid workers held captive in Iraq.
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PARIS/ROME  - Italy called on Group of Eight rich  nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian  Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some  of the stricken countries gathered pace.
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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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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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Piecing together old video footage, an Italian aid group released emotive images to Arab television on Sunday of its two female Italian charity workers and two Iraqi colleagues kidnapped in Baghdad.