Gunmen kidnap French journalist in north Somalia
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Gunmen in Somalia's northern Puntland region kidnapped a French journalist on Sunday, the area's deputy governor said.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French citizens and is demanding the French government end a  ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.
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At least three foreign tourists are kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen, local officials say.
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Gunmen on Monday took hostage about 30 students and teachers at a high school in volatile northwestern Pakistan, police said.
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An Iraqi armed group has kidnapped an Italian journalist missing since last week and has threatened to kill him unless Italy withdraws its troops from Iraq in 48 hours, al-Jazeera reported.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad on Friday, the latest in a series of brazen  abductions but the first since Iraq's election.
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Militants in Iraq free French reporters Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, held hostage since August.
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The body of an Egyptian who was  kidnapped last month has been found in northern Iraq, police  said on Sunday, while French leaders held a crisis meeting in  Paris on the fate of two French hostages.
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Palestinian security services were hunting on Tuesday for a BBC correspondent kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men in Gaza, the latest foreigner abducted in the increasingly lawless territory.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen wants international media watchdogs to press for his release, a Somali journalist related to the kidnappers said on Thursday.
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Somali gunmen seized the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague while they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday but freed them hours later, embassy staff said.
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ADDIS ABABA - Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where ...Comment
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British and French nationals were among a number of foreign tourists feared kidnapped on Friday in a remote area of northeastern Ethiopia.
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An armed group has kidnapped an  Arab-Israeli employee of CNN news network in the Gaza Strip, Al  Jazeera television reported on Monday.
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The body of an Egyptian who was kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found in the northern part of the country, police said on Sunday, as France awaited word on the fate of two seized French reporters.
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Iraqi militant group has announced it is holding two missing French journalists, according to al-Jazeera.
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Somali gunmen kidnapped the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague as they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday, embassy staff said.