Effort to free UN hostages at &quot;sensitive&quot; stage
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A spokesman for a militant group holding three UN workers hostage says negotiations are under way for their release. The Taliban splinter group says it&#39;s speaking with Afghan and UN officials.
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The release of three United Nations workers who had been held hostage for more than three weeks took place early Tuesday in what appeared to be an orchestrated handover.
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Efforts are continuing to secure the release of a County Armagh woman kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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The Afghan government is considering  offering a ransom to free three U.N. hostages, an official said  on Monday, as the kidnappers repeated a threat to kill the  foreigners unless Taliban prisoners were released.
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KABUL - Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan telephoned home to say they are OK and one expressed hope she soon would be free, officials and relatives said Tuesday.
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Afghan kidnappers holding three foreign United Nations workers hostage say they are now considering whether to kill, hold or release their captives.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan said they expected to hold talks via  intermediaries with U.N. and government negotiators on Sunday  while the U.N. repeated a call for their immediate release.
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The United Nations renewed an appeal for the safe release of three UN workers taken hostage in Afghanistan by a shadowy group of Islamic militants.
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Kabul: A murky Taliban splinter group which has held three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks said it would decide on their fate Wednesday, as the US military expressed hope they would be released.
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The US-led military in Afghanistan has expressed hope that three foreign UN workers being held hostage by suspected Taliban remnants would be freed soon.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped United Nations workers, including a British woman, are demanding the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly held at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostagesâ lives.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday he will do everything he can to secure the release of Israeli soldiers captured by militants in recent months.
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The United Nations appealed Thursday to the Taliban-linked kidnappers of three of its staff in Afghanistan to release them in time for a Muslim festival starting this weekend.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has assured President Arroyo that the UN is doing its best to secure the freedom of a Filipino diplomat held hostage by a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan.
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Three United Nations workers, held hostage and pictured in a video released yesterday, will be executed on Wednesday unless British forces leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are released from GuantÃ¡namo Bay, their Taliban kidnappers demanded yesterday
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The UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said Sunday it was ready to assist in a potential operation to rescue a British embassy tour group abducted in Ethiopia on March 1.
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KABUL : A murky Taliban splinter group holding three UN hostages in Afghanistan for three weeks was silent after the hostages&#39; families plead for their freedom, but the US military was hopeful they were alive and would be safely released.