UK confirms British-Irish national kidnapped in Afghanistan
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw confirmed Thursday that one of the three United Nations election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan held British-Irish nationality.
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Two UN workers who spent nearly a month in the hands of Afghan kidnappers left Kabul on Sunday as relatives and friends awaited their arrivals in Northern Ireland and Kosovo.
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An Afghan official said criminals were holding a British woman and two other kidnapped United Nations workers, not the Taliban-linked group that has threatened to kill them unless its jailed comrades are freed.
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A British UN worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan by Islamic militants nearly two weeks ago has telephoned her family to say she is still alive.
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The Taliban in Afghanistan claimed Tuesday to have captured a Briton working for an Italian newspaper, which said one of its correspondents was missing.
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Efforts are continuing to secure the release of a County Armagh woman kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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The Bangladesh government confirmed Saturday the identity of one of its nationals taken hostage by militants in Iraq, officials said.
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The family of Annetta Flannigan, an Irish UN worker taken hostage in Afghanistan, spoke of their joy at her release Tuesday. In a statement through the Foreign Office, they
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Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday.
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NI woman Annetta Flanigan held hostage in Afghanistan for 27 days is on her way to be reunited with her family.
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The Foreign Office said Tuesday it was checking reports that the Islamist Taliban militia had kidnapped a British citizen in southern Afghanistan.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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Nato troops are hunting for three UN workers, one of them British-Irish, kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction yesterday.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by a  gang of armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering a huge  manhunt by Afghan security and international peacekeepers.
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Iraq News, KABUL, A British freelance cameraman said yesterday he was detained by Afghan authorities for his role in the release of three UN hostages and came under pressure to sign a statement saying he was part of the kidnap gang.