Kidnap girl to give TV interview
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Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch, who was held prisoner for eight years, is to give a television interview.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg  and 17 members of her family during last year's war urged  kidnappers Saturday to release a British hostage they have been  holding for nine days under threat of death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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A new tape of hostage Margaret Hassan broadcast on al-Jazeera TV station shows her pleading for her life.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers threatened in a videotape yesterday to slit the throats of three civilians â-wo Americans and a Briton â -ess authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons in Iraq.
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The distraught mother of a three-year-old British girl taken hostage in southern Nigeria said Saturday her captors had asked for a ransom, as police stepped up efforts to secure her release.
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Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
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NEW DELHI: Police have rescued a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped five years ago when she was just seven and fed hormones to prepare her for prostitution, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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said, in a move that may raise hopes for the release of a British hostage. soldiers, could be freed as part of a review of her detention.
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BEIRUT: Relatives of a kidnapped member of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family have begged her captors to release her saying she was pregnant, in a videotape aired by Lebanese satellite channel LBC yesterday.
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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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A friend of the man who held a girl captive for more than eight years in an underground cell said Wednesday he met her at the kidnapper's home last month, where she was introduced as an acquaintance.
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ROME, Oct 22  (IPS) - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting  footage of victims has won them  international attention. But are  the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they  serving  criminal propaganda?
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One of five prostitutes feared killed by a possible serial murderer in Ipswich had voiced deep concerns for her safety in a TV interview given just days before she vanished, it has emerged.
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Arabic television station Al-Jazeera broadcast a video in which an armed group in Iraq said it had kidnapped a Polish woman.
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Russian state TV airs an interview with an alleged hostage-taker, as two days of national mourning begin.