Abused boys rescued from Baghdad orphanage
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U.S. soldiers helped rescue 24 abused and severely malnourished boys this month from a Baghdad orphanage, where they were found in conditions of appalling squalor, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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Nine Romanian children rescued after police carried out raids against crime gangs are reunited with their families.
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The two Italian aid workers released by their captors in Iraq have said being together helped them through the worst of their ordeal.
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BAGHDADâKidnappers released two Italian aid workers and three other hostages yesterday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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Up to 30 people are kidnapped from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in central Baghdad, officials say.
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It was one of deadliest days for children in 17 months of bloodshed in Iraq. The trauma was palpable yesterday at Baghdad&#39;s Yarmouk Hospital, where the dead and dying were
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Aides to a top Shi&#39;ite cleric in Iraq say 18 captive Iraqi soldiers have been freed by kidnappers who had threatened to kill them.
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Four more people seized last weekend at a sports conference have been found blindfolded and dumped unharmed in an east Baghdad neighborhood, officials said Thursday. There was no word on the fate of Iraq's Olympic committee chairman.
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ROME, Sep 30 (IPS) - âShukran, shukran gesilan, ma salama (Thank you,  many  thanks, see you),â Italian aid workers Simona Pari and  Simona Torretta said,  after being freed this week in the Iraqi  capital, Baghdad.
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Guatemalan police rescued a two-month-old boy who had been stolen from his home and arrested four people who were allegedly preparing the baby for illegal adoption, an official said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  the injured and the homeless, many of them children, out of  some of the worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province  on Monday, as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from  the disaster.
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An Iraqi boy stands near a huge crater in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite slum of Sadr City, 07 September 2004. Iraq was steeped in blood as a fledgling truce in a Baghdad rebel bastion of Sadr City was shattered by fresh
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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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ROME : Two female Italian aid workers arrived back in Rome after being released from a three-week hostage ordeal in Iraq, sparking scenes of joy at their homes and relief among world leaders.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi soldiers found 24 severely malnourished children in a Baghdad orphanage -- some tied to their beds and too weak to stand, the US military said yesterday.
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Three of the seven American children abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage had suffered years of abuse, including broken bones and beatings with extension cords, before they were adopted by the woman who left them in Africa, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid yesterday on an Al Qaeda hide-out north of Baghdad, the US military said.