Former NI Afghan hostage expresses delight at being freed
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Former Afghan hostage Annetta Flanigan has spoken today for the first time since her release on Tuesday. The Northern Ireland-born UN worker read out a statement from her, Angelito Nayan and Shqipe Habibi, giving thanks for all the support they received.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his joy Wednesday at the release by Palestinian extremists of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston after 16 weeks in captivity in Gaza.
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Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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Embracing her fellow kidnap survivors and in a voice crackling with emotion, UN official Annetta Flanigan spoke of their joyful relief yesterday, but offered no explanation for their release.
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Micah Garen, the American journalist freed by Shiite militants in Iraq after nine days in captivity, said Saturday that it feels "really good to be back home" and thanked his supporters in his first public comments since returning to the United States.
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Three U.N. workers held hostage in Afghanistan met President Hamid Karzai Wednesday and appeared happy and well despite a kidnap ordeal lasting nearly four weeks.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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Hopes for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage, rose yesterday after Dublin responded to requests from his kidnappers for proof of his Irish ancestry by issuing a passport in his name.
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Three U.N. workers held hostage in  Afghanistan met President Hamid Karzai Wednesday and appeared  happy and well despite a kidnap ordeal lasting nearly four  weeks.
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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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and smiled for photographers after discussing their captivity with him at his presidential palace in Kabul. Reporters were not allowed to ask questions, but Nayan said he was well and grateful for the support he received from home.
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Three U.N. workers held hostage for  almost a month in Afghanistan thanked President Hamid Karzai  and the Afghan people on Wednesday and said the thought of  reunion with family and friends kept them going during an awful  ordeal.
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A senior Muslim negotiator involved in trying to free Ken Bigley, the British hostage in Iraq, has expressed guarded optimism he will be freed, and the Irish government
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Joy swept France with the release Tuesday in Iraq of two French reporters held hostage for four months.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - 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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A Polish woman freed after being taken hostage in October in Iraq said on Saturday her captors had treated her well.