Briton kidnapped in Iraq is named
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A British man who was abducted from his Baghdad house, along with two Americans,  by  gunmen is named as Kenneth Bigley.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has personally contacted the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq to reassure them as they anxiously await news, the Foreign Office announced today.
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A British oil worker is snatched in Nigeria along with six other men, the Foreign Office confirms.
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Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the head of the CARE humanitarian group in Iraq, a British-born woman in her 60s who has been critical of the US-led invasion of Iraq and has worked
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Kidnappers seized the British-Iraqi  head of an international charity in Baghdad on Tuesday and  later she was shown sitting anxiously and alone in a video  broadcast by an Arabic television station.
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LONDON: The family of a British civil engineer kidnapped in Iraq this week with two Americans issued a plea yesterday for his release.
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The family of Ken Bigley, the Briton kidnapped in Iraq, have released a statement through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office appealing for his safe release.
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Iraqi kidnappers have beheaded a British man who was seized last month, his family said yesterday, ending what one relative called &#39;&#39;three long weeks of agony.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq have beheaded a British hostage despite last-ditch secret appeals from the government. A Reuters journalist in Baghdad on Friday saw a video
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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US troops have identified the house in Fallujah where Iraqi insurgents held and beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley. An Iraqi insurgent captured in Fallujah Friday led
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 16: Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an affluent Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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British hostage Ken Bigley has been  beheaded in Iraq, three weeks after he was kidnapped by  militants demanding the release of women held by U.S.-led  forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
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BAGHDAD : Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year&#39;s invasion became the latest victims of a five-month-old hostage crisis.
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The British engineer kidnapped by gunmen from his house in Baghdad with two Americans has been named as Kenneth Bigley. The 62-year-old, originally from the north west of England, was seized with the two other
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One of the UK soldiers killed in an ambush near Basra in southern Iraq is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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Militants beheaded a British hostage  near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free  Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played  on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.