Briton in Afghan kidnap dispute
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A British hotelier says Afghan authorities tried to get him to confess to kidnapping three UN workers.
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Negotiations on the fate of three UN workers, including an Irish woman, kidnapped in Afghanistan have snagged over ransom demands, officials said today.
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul declared "persona non grata" a Briton and an Irishman working for the EU and the U.N., accusing them of threatening state security by meeting Taliban insurgents.
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Efforts are continuing to secure the release of a County Armagh woman kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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The Taliban in Afghanistan claimed Tuesday to have captured a Briton working for an Italian newspaper, which said one of its correspondents was missing.
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WASHINGTON -- A US citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and is being held as an enemy combatant remains in US custody Thursday.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three people and seized a car believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three foreigners, government and security sources say, but there was no word on the fate of the hostages.
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Britain is ruling out negotiations with the captors of Kenneth Bigley, the only surviving member of the trio of American and British contractors taken hostage in Iraq last week.
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An Afghan commander accused of  conspiring to torture people and hold hostages has become the  first person to stand trial in Britain for human rights abuses  committed abroad.
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Britain was urgently checking Tuesday reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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Militants holding a Briton and two other foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are released from US
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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The third German in a week - a journalist - is kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, local officials say.
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Afghan police have arrested three suspects in the kidnapping of a Briton and two other foreign election workers and are concentrating their search for the victims in a valley north of Kabul, a government source says.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government officials said. The workers were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo, the
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Alleged Afghan warlord Faryadi Zardad is to face a retrial in the UK on torture and kidnap charges.