Archbishop abducted in Iraq
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A Catholic archbishop in the northern Iraq city of Mosul is kidnapped, on a day of violence across Iraq.
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A popular Iraqi soccer player who was a member of the country's Olympic team has been kidnapped in Baghdad, police said.
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The Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul was freed today, a day after his abduction in Iraq, according to reports from the Vatican. But with Iraq's first election just 12 days away, violence aimed at derailing the process continued today.
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The head of an international charity's operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today.
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A British charity worker is reportedly kidnapped in Iraq.
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seized in Baghdad were abducted west of the capital, an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad said on Friday. and the abduction of two Italian aid workers from their office earlier this month.
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The director of the humanitarian group CARE International has been kidnapped in Iraq, and appeared in a video aired on Arab television network Al-Jazeera.
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Armed men wearing Iraqi military uniforms abducted a senior Iranian diplomat Sunday in Baghdad, an official at the Iranian embassy said.
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N'DJAMENA  - A U.S. evangelical church missionary has been kidnapped by rebels in northern Chad, an interior ministry official said on Thursday.
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Gunmen in Baghdad kidnap Ghanim Khudayer, a well-known Iraqi footballer, from his home.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad yesterday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings.
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Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted at least three Western lecturers and several of their foreign bodyguards from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters.
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A charity worker for a major British aid organisation is reportedly kidnapped in Iraq.
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October 19 2004 1945CET - The Care International Charity says that Maragaret Hassan, its chief of operations in Iraq was kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Gunmen have kidnapped the Sunni head of one of Iraq's leading soccer clubs, an official said Friday, the latest in a series of attacks against sports figures amid spiraling sectarian violence.
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The Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped at gunpoint on Monday was freed on Tuesday morning without a ransom being paid, the Vatican said.