Asia ; Afghanistan hostages &#39;split up&#39;
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Asia News, Militants who say they are holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan say they have split them up to make any rescue attempts more difficult.
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There was confusion over the hostages&#39; nationalities with local police initially saying they were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo and were two women and a man.
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The kidnappers of a Northern Ireland woman in Afghanistan have again extended the deadline for their demands to be met. Annetta Flanigan from County Armagh and her United Nations colleagues, Filipino Angelito
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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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A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a claim disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Philippines Bureau Chief Twink Macaraig. MANILA : Time is running out for three hostages snatched by a Taliban splinter group in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, July 21 -- A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the hard-line Islamic movement had killed two German hostages, a claim disputed by Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 South Korean captives for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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Afghan army and police surrounded the Taliban kidnappers of 23 Koreans on Sunday while tribal elders tried to mediate between the militants and government negotiators, a Kabul-based Western security analyst said.
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Asia News, KABUL - A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe.
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan released three South Korean hostages, the first of 19 captives scheduled to be freed under a deal struck between the insurgents and the South Korean government.
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17 November 2004 -- Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry says it believes three UN workers abducted nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the area but not by the Taliban splinter group that claims to be seeking negotiations on
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Afghan kidnappers holding three foreign United Nations workers hostage say they are now considering whether to kill, hold or release their captives.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EST on Monday.
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Militants claiming to hold three UN hostages said Thursday that talks on their demands, including the release of Taliban prisoners, had broken down, and they would decide Friday whether to kill the trio.
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KABUL, 16 November 2004 - Afghan captors holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan extended a deadline yesterday for their demands to be met, blaming the US for disrupting negotiations aimed at securing the captivesâ release.
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Talks aimed at freeing two Chinese engineers taken hostage by al-Qaeda-linked militants in a lawless region near the Afghanistan border have broken down and tribal elders
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RIGA, Latvia -- NATO was divided at its summit yesterday on deploying more troops to Afghanistan's volatile south, with Germany resisting any permanently expanded presence and Canada complaining of bearing the brunt of an increasingly bloody mission.