Palestinian kidnaps, then frees, three U.S. women
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NABLUS, West Bank  - A Palestinian man demanding medical expenses for a battle wound abducted three American women near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, and freed them an hour later, Palestinian sources said.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed on Tuesday, almost four  weeks after their abduction at gunpoint on a Kabul street  raised fears of a wave of Iraq-style kidnappings.
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Iraq's government said one of two women  in U.S. custody would be freed on Wednesday, but insisted the  move was unrelated to the demands of kidnappers who have killed  two Americans and are threatening to kill a Briton.
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Iraqi police freed a Jordanian hostage in a raid south of Baghdad on Tuesday, detaining three men believed to have played a role in the kidnapping, a police spokesman said.
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Three Palestinians were rescued Thursday evening, after an apparent weapons smuggling tunnel they were digging on the Egyptian border near the Gaza Strip collapsed in the afternoon, burying them under mounds of sand.
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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including three Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
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Palestinian militant groups on Monday   demanded Israel free all Palestinian women and minors in its   jails in exchange for information about an Israeli soldier   kidnapped by gunmen from the Gaza Strip.
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WARSAW -- A Polish woman kidnapped in Iraq last month has been freed and flown to Poland and said she was treated well, raising hopes for other foreign hostages.
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The three UN employees, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan have been safely released, three weeks after their captivity, officials said Tuesday.
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Three foreign United Nations workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks were released, police and officials told AFP.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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DOHA, September 28 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - The hostage crisis in Iraq saw a breakthrough Tuesday, September 28, as the two Italian female hostages in Iraq have been released, hours after three others, including an Egyptian, were also freed.
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Taliban militants released three female South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity, the South Korean government said Wednesday.
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Three foreign UN workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said. &quot;They were released a while back this morning,&quot; said a government official, who
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The U.S. military has ordered three detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay to be freed and 25 others to remain as secret hearings were held into the cases of more terror suspects.
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Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill was back with her relieved parents Monday after being freed by kidnappers in southern Nigeria, but three more foreigners were seized in the oil producing region.