Kidnapped Iraq Bishop Freed, No Ransom -- Vatican
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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.
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A Filipino oil worker kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria last month has been freed unharmed, the foreign ministry in Manila said Friday.
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An aide to rebel Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr says an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago has been freed.
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Two Italian women held for three weeks in Baghdad were freed Tuesday, amid reports that a million-dollar ransom had been paid. Italian Prime Minister
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, with  two French journalists also close to being freed.
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Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, who was kidnapped by masked gunmen on Monday, was freed today without the payment of any ransom, the Vatican said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis  in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaeda hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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Two Italian women aid workers were freed in Baghdad today three weeks after being taken hostage. But there was still no word of the fate of Briton Ken Bigley, threatened with beheading by his captors who have remained silent for almost a week.
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[World News] Tehran, Sep 28 : An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq has been freed and is safe in Tehran&#39;s mission in Baghdad, Mehr news agency reports, quoting the foreign ministry.
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Italians celebrated the freedom Wednesday of two women aid workers held captive in Iraq for three weeks, but the nationwide joy was diluted by questions about whether a ransom was paid, a capitulation to ...
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Two North Carolina missionaries kidnapped on their way to church in Haiti's capital were freed Thursday after their families paid an undisclosed ransom, the FBI said.
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ANKARA, Turkey Sept. 6, 2004 - A Turkish driver taken hostage in Iraq was freed by his captors on Monday, Turkey&#39;s foreign minister said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two Italian and two Iraqi aid workers kidnapped this month in Iraq were freed Tuesday after three weeks in captivity, Italy's prime minister said. Four Egyptian workers abducted last week were also freed, according to their employer...
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Two Iraqi security guards said on Tuesday they were freed by kidnappers overnight but that the gunmen were still holding an American and a Nepali also seized from a villa used by a Saudi company in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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: Two Italian women aid workers and their two Iraqi colleagues abducted in Baghdad have been freed after âdifficultâ negotiations, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a delighted parliament today.
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Giancarlo Bossi, the Italian priest abducted last month in the Philippines, has been released, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said late Thursday.