Kabul hostages 'contact home'
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A kidnapped UN worker may have been allowed to contact her family in NI, reports from Afghanistan suggest.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain appealed on Thursday  to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make contact -- but  still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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Taleban-linked militants who are holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan say their captives&#39; lives depend on whether the Kabul government can reach an agreement Monday on the kidnappers&#39; demands.
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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 Taliban on Sunday released three Afghan aid workers who had been kidnapped along with their two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a spokesman for the group said. The report could not immediately be verified.
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A HARDLINE faction of the Taliban that claims to be holding Annetta Flanigan, a hostage from Northern Ireland, has threatened to kill her and two other captives if British troops do not pull out of Afghanistan, writes Tom Coghlan in Kabul.
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Militants in Afghanistan holding three UN workers hostage said on Saturday they were hopeful their demands would be met in negotiations but there were conflicting reports on whether the talks had started.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A UN official says two workers held hostage in Afghanistan are looking forward to some peace and quiet. The women, one from Northern Ireland and the other from Kosovo, took off from Kabul today aboard a UN plane.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants released a video yesterday showing three frightened foreign UN hostages pleading for their release and threatened to kill them unless United Nations&#39; and British troops leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are freed from
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) southwest of the Afghan capital Kabul, but will release them soon, a Taliban spokesman said on Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants claiming to hold three United Nations workers hostage said talks on demands, which include the release of Taliban prisoners, had broken down and that they would decide Friday whether to kill the trio.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan have met with President Hamid Karzai. They looked tired but happy a day after their release from nearly four weeks of captivity.
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A militant group threatening to kill three UN hostages said Thursday they were in talks with the Afghan government about the group&#39;s demand that Taliban prisoners be released.
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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Asia News, KABUL - A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants holding three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have said they will kill them unless all Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners are released from US custody by noon (2:30 am ET) on Wednesday.