Afghanistan mine clearers freed
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Ten members of an Afghan mine clearing team kidnapped last week have been released, officials say.
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On a flinty hill overlooking Kabul, Ahmed  Naseer leads a team of the mine-clearing charity Halo Trust,  dismantling the wreckage of 78 huge Soviet anti-aircraft  missiles that once formed Afghanistan's 99th Rocket Brigade.
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Gunmen have freed the last three of 13 Afghan deminers abducted last week, their employer said on Thursday, but it was not immediately clear who was behind the abduction.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - US and Afghan forces have apparently freed three UN workers who were kidnapped in Kabul on Oct. 28. On Monday, US and Afghan forces raided a house in Kabul, in what appears to have been part of an operation to free the hostages.
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Indonesian police released five officials of Newmont Mining Corp., the world&#39;s biggest gold producer, from detention yesterday, the company said in an e- mailed statement.
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Most remaining Pakistani prisoners held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp are freed, officials say.
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Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan and her two fellow hostages, from Kosova and the Philippines, were freed on Tuesday in circumstances which have yet to become clear.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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Pakistan&#39;s military says it has flushed out hundreds of al-Qaida-linked militants from its semi-autonomous South. Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
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Pakistan&#39;s military says it has cleared foreign Islamic militants from large parts of the troubled region of South Waziristan, near the Afghan border.
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A breakthrough agreement in Afghanistan's disputed elections was reached when the main rival to President Hamid Karzai said he would accept the result after an independent inquiry into charges of fraud.
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Taliban militants have freed three Afghans abducted with two French colleagues nearly two months ago, their aid group and a spokesman for the extremist movement said Sunday.
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The British military in Afghanistan announced it had cleared a Taliban base consisting of 25 compounds near a major hydro-electric dam project in the volatile south of the country.
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ISLAMABAD, 25 August 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday announced he would free the last 400 Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taleban and had been languishing in decrepit Afghan jails since late 2001.
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Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three areas in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in fighting, the military said on Thursday.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets
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About 80 Afghan prisoners are repatriated after being freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.