Somali kidnappers free Argentine, Spanish aid staff
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Kidnappers in Somalia's northern Puntland region on Wednesday freed two female aid workers from the Spanish branch of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), Puntland's trade minister said.
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Two Iraqis abducted along with two Italian female aid workers in Baghdad have been freed along with the women, a spokesman for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Kidnappers in Somalia's northern Puntland region on Wednesday freed two female aid workers from the Spanish branch of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), Puntland's trade minister said.
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Russian special services on Monday freed   all hostages who were being held by inmates at a Moscow prison,   the Interfax news agency reported, citing the head of Russia's   prison service.
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An Italian aid worker abducted in the southern Philippines was released unharmed after Muslim separatist rebels reportedly helped authorities corner his kidnappers.
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An Italian volunteer worker kidnapped earlier by an unidentified group in the southern Philippines has been released, the Philippine military said Wednesday.
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Somaliland forces early Wednesday freed a German aid worker from gunmen who abducted him a day earlier, officials in the breakaway republic said.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 28, 2004 - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in the north Somalia region of Puntland on Wednesday, their driver and a local official said.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed today, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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Security forces in Somalia are hunting the gang who seized two aid workers, including a female doctor from Spain.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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Three U.N. workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed Tuesday, a day after a string of raids by U.S. and Afghan security forces.
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Two Italian women aid workers held  hostage in Iraq have been released and handed over to the  Italian charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Al Jazeera television  said on Tuesday.
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Two Italian aid workers kidnapped this month in Iraq were freed Tuesday after three weeks in captivity, Italy's prime minister said, according to Italian news reports.