Egypt frees Azzam Azzam after 8 years
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Egypt yesterday released Azzam Azzam, an Israeli arrested and jailed in Egypt eight years ago on charges of espionage. In exchange, Israel freed six Egyptian students who were captured in August this year
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JERUSALEM -- Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli convicted of spying, in exchange for the release of six Egyptian detainees in a prisoner swap that signaled warmer ties between the countries. The exchange added to the surge in regional diplomacy since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died last month.
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Outspoken criticism of Muslim extremists and Egypt's president earns an Egyptian man a four-year prison sentence. By the Associated Press.
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Egypt and Israel completed a prisoner swap under which six Egyptian students held for plotting attacks on soldiers were freed in return for the release by Egypt of an Israeli Druze held for spying.
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EILAT, ISRAEL - Six Egyptian students were freed by Israel on Sunday in exchange for the release of an Arab-Israeli spy. The students had sneaked into Israel in August and were arrested on suspicion that they
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Egypt and Israel have agreed to an  exchange of prisoners -- Israeli businessman Azzam Azzam,  jailed for spying in 1997, for six Egyptian students arrested  in August, Egyptian security sources said on Sunday.
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An Egyptian among 12 foreign terror suspects who were jailed indefinitely without charge has walked free after spending three years in British prisons, the Home Office said.
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In an unexpected ruling on September 2, the Malaysian Federal Court, the nationâs highest judicial body, freed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim after overturning his conviction on a charge of sodomy.
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A man who had been held in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants has been released and is back home, his family and their lawyer said Saturday night.
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WHAT HAPPENED: Egypt released businessman Azzam Azzam, convicted of spying for Israel, for six Egyptian students suspected of trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting inmates at an Argentine prison freed all their hostages yesterday, ending a daylong siege that left eight people dead.
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Azzam Azzam's family erupted in cheers, applause and tears on learning Sunday that the Arab-Israeli businessman had been freed after eight years in an Egyptian jail.
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In a clear sign of improving relations, Egypt released today an Israeli convicted of spying and Israel reciprocated by freeing six young Egyptians arrested in August after slipping into Israel&#39;s southern desert.
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A Muslim cleric allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents and tortured in Egypt has been released, his lawyer says.
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JERUSALEM, 6 December 2004 - In a sign that relations strained by the Palestinian uprising were warming, Egypt freed an Israeli Druze jailed eight years ago for spying and the Jewish state released six Egyptian students.
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Egypt has released from prison in recent days 700 members of the al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, an Islamist group that fought the government in the 1990s but which has since renounced violence, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was allowed to leave Tehran early this morning, ending an eight-month saga of imprisonment and virtual house arrest that heightened tense relations between the United States and Iran.