China Says Freed Hostages to Return Home Soon
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by  guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend will return home soon, state  media said on Monday.
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Safely home in Italy, two women aid  workers spoke of returning to Iraq on Wednesday despite a  three-week hostage ordeal as their overjoyed nation shrugged  off reports that a ransom was paid to free them.
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The US-led military in Afghanistan expressed hope that three foreign UN employees being held hostage by suspected Taliban remnants would be freed soon.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by  guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend were in good spirits and  would return home soon, state media said on Monday.
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Iraq's vice president assured China that Baghdad will "exhaust every effort" to free eight Chinese abducted by Iraqi insurgents as a deadline set by their captors passed with no word on their fate, state media said Friday.
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China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Insurgents holding eight Chinese  laborers hostage in Iraq said on Saturday they were releasing  the men, locals who saw a videotape circulated by the  kidnappers said.
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Laksamana.Net - Two Indonesian female migrant workers freed by militants in Iraq are expected to arrive home within a day or two, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Wednesday (6/10/04).
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Mediators trying to help China win the release of eight of its nationals being held hostage in Iraq are optimistic of success, as the deadline for the captives' execution approaches.
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Two French journalists headed home to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday after a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq which Paris said ended without a ransom being paid.
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Eight Chinese workers taken hostage by guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed, and located by Chinese embassy staff in Baghdad, the embassy said Sunday.
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Eight Chinese hostages whose whereabouts had been unknown since their release 24 hours ago are safe in Baghdad and in the hands of the Chinese authorities, a diplomat told AFP.
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Families of eight Chinese labourers held hostage by militants in Iraq plead for their release.
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The employer of two Chinese engineers kidnapped in Pakistan was hopeful they would be released as their abductors were targeting neither the company nor Chinese, a spokesman for the firm said on Monday.
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The employer of two Chinese engineers  kidnapped in Pakistan was hopeful they would be released as  their abductors were targeting neither the company nor Chinese,  a spokesman for the firm said on Monday.
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Two French journalists were heading home  to France on Wednesday after the end of a 4-month hostage  ordeal in Iraq which left many unanswered questions about the  government's handling of the crisis.
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A Chinese government team leaves for  Pakistan on Friday to investigate the kidnap and ill-fated  rescue of two Chinese engineers.