Nigerian kidnappers demand money for British girl
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - The family of a three-year old British girl abducted in Nigeria began negotiating her release on Friday with kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless their ransom demands are met.
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British engineer who was kidnapped by gunmen from his house in Baghdad this week, has issued a desperate plea for his safe return.
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Iraqi insurgents who claim to be holding two French journalists in Iraq demanded a $5 million (Â£2.8 million) ransom yesterday as part of a disturbing set of new conditions for their release.
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Nigerian kidnappers have tonight released Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl seized in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
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LONDON - The Iraqi Islamic militant group holding two French journalists hostage has demanded a $5m (Â£2.8m) ransom for their release, to be paid within 48 hours, as well as a set of hard-to-meet demands.
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A charity worker for a major British aid organisation is reportedly kidnapped in Iraq.
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Unidentified kidnappers are demanding a $25-million ransom for a Turkish shipping magnate they abducted in Iraq. That&#39;s according to a Turkish television channel, which aired video footage
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq  renew appeals for authorities to negotiate with the  kidnappers.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill, after a three-day hostage ordeal.
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Nigerian authorities on Friday stepped up efforts to secure the release of a three-year-old British girl after her kidnappers threatened to kill her unless her father takes her place.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - A 3-year-old Nigerian boy was kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Thursday, police said, four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg  and 17 members of her family during last year's war urged  kidnappers Saturday to release a British hostage they have been  holding for nine days under threat of death.
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The government has appealed to kidnappers holding hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq to make contact -- but still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg and 17 members of her family during last year's war has urged kidnappers to release a British hostage they have been holding for nine days under threat of death.
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The Nigerian kidnappers of three year-old British girl Margaret Hill may release her within 24 hours, the chief of police in Rivers State said on Saturday.