Freed Koreans head for home
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The final South Koreans freed by the Taleban head home, amid rows over the deal made to secure their release.
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A Colombian woman freed last week after six years in rebel hands goes home with news of fellow hostages.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- Negotiators in Afghanistan said Tuesday they had reached agreement on a deal that will allow 19 South Korean church volunteers to go free after six weeks in Taliban captivity, apparently ending a hostage crisis that has gripped both nations, officials said.
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Taliban militants released 12 captives in a series of handovers yesterday, part of a deal with Seoul to free all 19 South Korean hostages that one Afghan minister warned would embolden the insurgents.
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British couple Kate and Gerry McCann, who were named suspects in their four-year-old daughter Madeleine's disappearance, began their return home on Sunday.
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South Korean hostages set free by Afghan rebels after six weeks in captivity are likely to receive a mixed homecoming with many awaiting their weekend arrival with relief but also seeing them as largely to blame for their ordeal.
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A Polish woman hostage abducted in Iraq more than three weeks ago was back home after being released by her captors who she said had treated her well.
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The 19 South Korean Christians freed by Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban after six weeks in captivity will arrive home on early Sunday, foreign ministry officials said.
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Nineteen newly-freed South Korean hostages flew out of the Afghan capital on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama following a deal with Taliban insurgents critics fear could spur more abductions.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  - Thirty-five Pakistani prisoners released from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba returned home Saturday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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SEOUL, Sept. 2 -- Looking wan and exhausted, and apologizing for the trouble they had caused their nation, South Korean missionaries held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan arrived home early Sunday.
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Cambodia&#39;s new King Norodom Sihamoni and his parents, the former King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath arrived home on Wednesday from Beijing.
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Eight Chinese workers freed by Iraqi kidnappers were scheduled to fly to Jordan then head home to China on Tuesday, said a Chinese diplomat in the Jordanian capital.
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a U.S.  military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life with  his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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PARIS  - Two French journalists freed in Iraq headed for home and a rapturous welcome at the end of a four-month hostage ordeal as the government in Paris insisted no ransom was paid to secure their freedom.
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A convoy of displaced Liberians heads for home in the first wave of returns for around 500,000 people.
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Two French reporters, freed from four months of captivity in Iraq, arrived home tonight as the government said it negotiated an end to their ordeal without paying a ransom.