Death threat to British hostage renewed
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Iraqi militants have renewed their threat to kill British hostage Kenneth Bigley unless Iraqi women are released from prison, despite justice officials confirming today that one of the two females currently in US custody could be freed imminently.
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A Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill three U.N. hostages again extended a deadline on its demands after the government said it would respond to them on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday.
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Militants holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan have offered to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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The British government on Monday condemned the purported killing of an American hostage in Iraq, stressing that this kind of &quot;appalling crime&quot; would only strengthen its resolve in Iraq.
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A British hostage in Iraq pleaded for  his life on Wednesday, but two Italian women held by another  group were reported to have been killed.
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THE kidnappers of British aid worker Margaret Hassan last night threatened to turn her over to the group which beheaded Ken Bigley if the British Government refuses to pull its troops out of Iraq.
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.
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British police detained one more person  on Tuesday in connection with last week's alleged plot to blow  up transatlantic airliners, as France's interior minister said  the threat of terrorism remained "high and permanent."
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Britain's Foreign Office updated its travel advice for Iraq, warning its nationals that they could be targeted by kidnappers in the north of the war-torn country.
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A British hostage in Iraq pleaded for his life on Wednesday, but two Italian women held by another group were reported to have been killed.
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British police were given more time to question nine suspects seized over an alleged &quot;Iraq-style&quot; plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier, in a case which has shocked Britain.
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The anxious family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley on Thursday made a further appeal to the captors to free him as soon as possible.
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The British and Iraqi governments said  Thursday they would not bow to the demands of militants  threatening to kill a British hostage, despite a video message  from the captive pleading for his life.
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Video footage of 10 more hostages kidnapped in Iraq was today broadcast on the al-Jazeera television channel as the British government again said it would not negotiate to free Kenneth Bigley.
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Hundreds of Britons held a candlelit vigil on Tuesday for a hostage threatened with beheading in Iraq amid reports that his abductors had killed a second U.S. captive.
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An Afghan militant group on Monday  repeated a threat to kill three foreign U.N. workers held  hostage since late last month unless Taliban prisoners were  freed, but said it was willing to be flexible on other demands.
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Facing a death threat from his Iraqi captors, British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared in a video on an Islamist Web site Wednesday and tearfully pleaded to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help spare his life, saying, &quot;Please