Freed trio get warm Delhi welcome
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Three Indian truck drivers held hostage in Iraq arrive back in Delhi, where large crowds greet them.
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THE emotional return of the aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta to Italy after their kidnap ordeal in Iraq was a joyful sight to behold.
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Beaming smiles at the millions who prayed for their freedom, Simona Torretta and Simona Pari returned to a relieved Rome last night.
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Nineteen South Korean  Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan  for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on  Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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Three U.N. workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan met with President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday, looking tired but happy a day after their release from nearly four weeks of captivity.
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Two of the three hostages being held by militants in Afghanistan have been allowed to call home, an Afghan presidential spokesman said.
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BEITUNIA CHECKPOINT, WEST BANK - Family members were reunited Monday with 159 Palestinians released from Israeli detention. Israel said it freed them as part of a prisoner swap with Egypt and as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
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A Briton is said to be in good spirits after being transferred from death row in the US to another jail.
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The three UN employees, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan have been safely released, three weeks after their captivity, officials said Tuesday.
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Three foreign UN workers taken hostage last month in Afghanistan are released, officials say.
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New Delhi, Sep 3 (UNI) The three released Indian hostages returned home early today for an emotional reunion with their families ending an ordeal that kept the whole nation on the edge for more than a month.
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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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Three United Nations hostages have been freed after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan, with kidnappers claiming that Taliban prisoners were due to be released in exchange.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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Two French journalists freed after a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq returned to a heroes' welcome in Paris on Wednesday as the relieved government basked in a national wave of joy at their safe release.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said.
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Britain voiced relief Tuesday after the release of five members of a British embassy group held for nearly two weeks by a rebel group in a remote part of Ethiopia.