Kidnappers Release Seven Hostages in Iraq
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Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
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Hijackers have released two more of the around 24 hostages they are holding after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb, bringing the total freed to 12.
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Kidnappers released seven foreign truckers held for 43 days on Wednesday after the head of a Kuwaiti transport company said he paid a $500,000 ransom.
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The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists held hostage by an Iraqi insurgency group since August have been released.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt on Wednesday after holding them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a dozen other foreigners still in captivity.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that
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1 September 2004 -- Seven employees of a Kuwaiti firm taken hostage in Iraq on 21 July were freed today. Spokeswoman Rana Abu-Zaineh of the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company confirmed that the three Kenyans
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were freed on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.
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An Iraqi group has released two Indonesian women captives who were handed over to the United Arab Emirates&#39; embassy in Baghdad, Arab television reported.
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Gunmen in speed boats  kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil  production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday,  authorities said.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt held hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope Wednesday to a dozen other foreign nationals still in captivity.
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An Iranian embassy official said that American troops released seven Iranians early Wednesday, hours after they were detained at a central Baghdad hotel.
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Kidnappers freed seven children who were seized on their way to school in a volatile suburb of Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Friday.
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A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after dropping nearly all their demands, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French journalists captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a controversial head scarf law.
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Two kidnapped Italian aid workers were freed Tuesday after three weeks of captivity in Iraq, and six other hostages in the country were also released.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Meanwhile, U.S...