Doubt over Zeta-Jones &#39;kidnap bid&#39;
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Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones at the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Picture:Lucy Nicholson. British actress Catherine Zeta-Jones narrowly escaped an abduction attempt in Mexico, a London tabloid has reported.
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DUBAI -- A website posted a photograph of what it claimed was a US soldier kidnapped in Iraq, but doubts were quickly raised about its authenticity after a US toy manufacturer said yesterday that it appeared to show a model soldier made by the company.
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Experts on Islamic militant groups are skeptical about a Web posting demanding &#36;5 million in ransom for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, France's prime minister said Monday.
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Conflicting accounts about the possible release of Iraqi detainees -- among them the woman known as &quot;Dr. Germ&quot; -- were issued by the US and Iraqi governments Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - The media was scrambling to confirm yesterday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been captured, after a day of confusion, with top officials making contradictory statements.
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Confusion surrounded the fate of two  French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a new  purported statement from the kidnappers denied they had  demanded a $5 million ransom or set a 48-hour deadline.
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Though a ransom amount of Rs seven crore is ready, the fate of Indian hostage in Poland, Harish Hitange, still hangs in the balance as the kidnappers have not yet got in touch with the police.
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Iraq is attempting to confirm whether a top aide to Saddam Hussein is on the run or has been captured. Government officials have been making contradictory statements over the fate of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
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Anti-terror police are questioning suspects over an alleged plot to kidnap a member of the armed forces.
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LOS ANGELES -- The woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones and threatening to chop her up pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday to multiple charges.
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Baghdad - Iraqi authorities struggled on Monday to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship had been nabbed in a shootout north of Baghdad.
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Oil giant BP is being questioned over its role in the alleged manipulation of global crude oil and petrol markets in 2003 and 2004.
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Confusion surrounded the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a new purported statement from the kidnappers denied they had demanded a $5 million ransom or set a 48-hour deadline.
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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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One of the UK&#39;s leading security consultants says the kidnapping of aid co-ordinator Margaret Hassan in Iraq may be the work of a new kidnap group.
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The confusion yesterday over whether two &quot;high-value&quot; women prisoners being held in Iraq would be released has underlined the limits of the interim government&#39;s authority.
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Media: The lingering fate of the hostage Kenneth Bigley has dominated recent news reports. Despite criticisms that the headlines are promoting the fundamentalistsâ agenda, last weekâs footage of Bigley