Vigil for BBC captive's 100th day
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Thousands of BBC staff are to observe a vigil marking 100 days since reporter Alan Johnston was seized in Gaza.
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LONDON, Dec. 11 -- Family and friends gathered at Westminster Cathedral Saturday to remember Margaret Hassan, a respected aid worker abducted and believed murdered in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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COLLEAGUES of aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped a week ago today, gathered at a rally in Baghdad to demand her release. More than 200 people staged the protest as the Foreign Office dismissed claims that
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq are waiting for news after a deadline set by his captors passed. On Saturday, the kidnappers said they would kill Ken Bigley, from Liverpool, and two Americans unless
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Mr Hussain and his brother Amjad will address the meeting A British organisation which championed his fight for freedom at an event in ... via BBC
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Militants beheaded a British hostage  near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free  Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played  on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.
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About 200,000 people sign an online petition calling for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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A vigil is to be held in Swansea in protest at the murder of a disabled Iraqi Kurdish man outside a pub in the city.
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Prayers are being said for Margaret Hassan, the British aidworker who is believed to have been killed by her militant kidnappers in Iraq.
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More than 200,000 people sign an online petition calling for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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Hamas said on Wednesday it was working to secure the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has now been held hostage for 100 days by Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip.
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More than 1,000 people have paid tribute to Iraq aid worker Margaret Hassan at a service in the Irish town where her mother was born.
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FAMILY and friends of the murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley gathered to remember him yesterday in a dignified ceremony that rose above the harsh words that had surrounded his capture and death.
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BAGHDAD -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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Several thousand people marched in a candlelight vigil in Rome Friday, calling for the release of two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.