Korean hostages face cool welcome home
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South Korean hostages set free by Afghan rebels after six weeks in captivity are likely to receive a mixed homecoming with many awaiting their weekend arrival with relief but also seeing them as largely to blame for their ordeal.
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Taliban militants released 12 captives in a series of handovers Wednesday, part of a deal with Seoul to free all 19 South Korean hostages that one Afghan minister warned would embolden the insurgents.
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Two French reporters, freed from four months of captivity in Iraq, arrived home tonight as the government said it negotiated an end to their ordeal without paying a ransom.
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Holed up in Canada&#39;s embassy in Beijing since September, a group of North Koreans have finally been released and allowed to travel to another country.
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Nineteen newly-freed South Korean hostages headed home on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama in Afghanistan following a deal with Taliban insurgents critics fear could spur more abductions.
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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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SEOUL, Sept. 2 -- Looking wan and exhausted, and apologizing for the trouble they had caused their nation, South Korean missionaries held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan arrived home early Sunday.
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Two French reporters who were released after being held hostage for four months in Iraq are expected to return home on Wednesday to a hero&#39;s welcome.
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: Cheering crowds and tearful relatives greeted three Indian truckers who returned home Friday after being released by their kidnappers following 42 days of captivity in Iraq.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK, officials and relatives said Tuesday, and one hostage said she expected to be released soon.
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Mediators trying to help China win the release of eight of its nationals being held hostage in Iraq are optimistic of success, as the deadline for the captives' execution approaches.
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South Korea said the remaining seven Korean church volunteers held by the Taliban in Afghanistan were likely to be freed on Thursday, a day after 12 of their colleagues were released from an ordeal of nearly six weeks.
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Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan called home to reassure relatives they are all right, as negotiators tried Tuesday to secure their release after 12 days in the hands of Taliban-linked militants.
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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 South Korean delegation arrived in  Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23  Koreans held hostage by Taliban guerrillas, a South Korean  embassy official said.
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Intensive efforts are under way to free 23 South Korean hostages held by the Taleban in Afghanistan.
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Three Kenyan drivers held hostage by militants in Iraq for 42 days return to Nairobi to an emotional welcome.