Somali elder: Kidnapped reporter safe
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A Somali clan elder has met with a French journalist being held by kidnappers who have increased their ransom demand to $1 million, the elder said Wednesday.
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LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian journalist seized by mob  of armed villagers in a remote Andean jungle, was released on  Thursday four days after he was abducted, beaten and tied to a  post for supporting a copper mining project, police said.
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Negotiations are underway to free a French journalist, Gwen Le Gouil, abducted in northern Somalia on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 20, 2004  A Western journalist who had been kidnapped by militants and threatened with death if US forces did not withdraw from the holy city of Najaf said his captors were treating him well, according to a video broadcast on the ...
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In his last newspaper dispatch before he and a colleague fell into the hands of Islamic kidnappers on Aug. 19, French reporter Georges Malbrunot wrote from Iraq that &quot;more
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A British Broadcasting Corp. journalist kidnapped in Gaza is alive and well and could soon be released, a Palestinian government spokesman said.
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A French journalist was kidnapped Sunday in northern Somalia by gunmen who apparently were demanding a $70,000 ransom, authorities and a media watchdog said.
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"Our thoughts, of course, are with Alan in his present predicament. We earnestly request his abductors to release Alan unharmed in any way"  LONDON: The family and colleagues of Alan Johnston, a BBC reporter kidnapped by Islamists in Gaza, urged his captors yesterday not to harm him after he appeared in a video wearing what he said was an explosives ... via China Daily
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A TV reporter abducted in Gaza in March was released early Wednesday. BBC correspondent Alan Johnston told CNN: "I am so glad to be free." He described his ordeal as "a nightmare."
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. journalist abducted by militants in Iraq and threatened with death said in a video aired Friday that his captors were treating him well, while an Italian journalist also was reported missing in the war-torn country...
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen yesterday kidnapped the head of the CARE humanitarian group in Iraq, a woman in her 60s who has been critical of the US-led invasion of Iraq and worked for three decades to improve living conditions here.
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TONY EASTLEY: An Australian journalist snatched by insurgents in Iraq, has contradicted claims by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer that he was kidnapped in a part of Baghdad where he was advised not to go.
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A New York journalist freed by his Iraqi kidnappers said yesterday that he wants to stay in Iraq and continue working on a documentary about the looting of archaeological sites.
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JERUSALEM -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted yesterday on a website used by Al Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
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The family and colleagues of Alan  Johnston, a BBC reporter kidnapped by Islamist extremists in  Gaza, urged his captors on Monday not to harm him after he  appeared in a video wearing what he said was an explosive belt.
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JERUSALEM, June 1 -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted Friday on a Web site used by al-Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.
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The video was the first evidence that a BBC reporter abducted in Gaza City on March 12 was still alive.