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BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston appeared in a video posted on the Internet on Sunday wearing what he said was an explosive belt which his captors have threatened to blow up if force was used to free him.
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Gunmen who kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in southern Nigeria said they would kill her unless her father takes her place, the girl&#39;s mother told the BBC on Friday.
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The group that claimed responsibility for the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan threatened today to kill the captives unless Nato and Afghan troops call off their search.
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The kidnappers of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan say they will kill their hostages by Wednesday if a list of demands is not met.
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"We are urgently looking into reports that a group of Westerners has been kidnapped."  SEVERAL Britons were feared kidnapped in Baghdad today on another bloody day for Iraq. via Edinburgh News
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad is looking increasingly perilous after his captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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Hostage Ken Bigley is feared dead after a Middle East TV station reported that he had been killed by his al Qaida captors. British diplomats were urgently investigating the reports on Abu Dhabi Television.
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Ex-BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan warns BBC journalism is in danger of being "cowed" after the Hutton Report.
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A Hamas official said on Sunday BBC reporter Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza three months ago, would be released within hours, but as the clock ticked by another senior member of the Islamist group counseled caution.
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"Our thoughts, of course, are with Alan in his present predicament. We earnestly request his abductors to release Alan unharmed in any way"  LONDON: The family and colleagues of Alan Johnston, a BBC reporter kidnapped by Islamists in Gaza, urged his captors yesterday not to harm him after he appeared in a video wearing what he said was an explosives ... via China Daily
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British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret  Hassan has probably been killed by kidnappers, her family said  on Tuesday after a video apparently showing her being shot in  the head was sent to an Arab television station.
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JERUSALEM, June 1 -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted Friday on a Web site used by al-Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
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Iraqi militants threaten to kill an Italian journalist kidnapped on Friday if Italian troops are not pulled out of Iraq.
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A new video recording released Monday shows kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston wearing an apparent explosives belt of the type suicide bombers use and warning it will be detonated if an attempt is made to free him by force.
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MILITANTS holding the British aid worker Annetta Flanigan and two United Nations colleagues in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them within three days unless British troops and the UN quit the country.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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The captors of an American journalist being held in Iraq have threatened to kill him unless US forces pulled out of Najaf.