Afghan Taliban extend deadline for Korean hostages
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The Taliban on Monday gave 23 Korean hostages another 24 hours to live to allow the South Korean government to open direct talks with the kidnappers, a Taliban spokesman said on Monday.
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A fresh deadline passed tonight for the end of negotiations with a group threatening to kill a Northern Irish UN worker and two of her colleagues held hostage in Afghanistan.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 28 -- South Korean negotiators and Taliban leaders have reached an agreement that will allow for the release of 19 hostages from a South Korean church who have been held captive by Afghan insurgents for nearly six weeks, officials in Afghanistan said Tuesday.
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MILITANTS holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan offered today to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EST on Monday.
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KABUL, 15 November 2004 - Jaish el-Muslimeen captors threatening to kill three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan set a fresh deadline yesterday for their demands and blamed the United States for slowing up negotiations.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan have extended a deadline for their  demands to be met because of the time taken for negotiators to  arrive for talks, a spokesman for the kidnappers said on  Saturday.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will on Wednesday start releasing 19 South Korean Christian volunteers kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
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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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Afghanistan's Taliban movement threatened to kill two German hostages if its demands were not met by 07:30 GMT on Saturday, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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KABUL Militants claiming to hold three United Nations hostages have set a deadline to decide on whether to kill them after declaring that talks on their demands have broken down.
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KABUL, Nov 16: The latest deadline set by Muslim militants in Afghanistan who threatened to kill three UN hostages passed with no word on their fate on Tuesday, but the government said it was hopeful they would be released.
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A purported Taliban spokesman said Sunday that the hard-line militia had extended by 24 hours the deadline for the Afghan government to trade captured militants for 23 South Korean hostages.
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Taliban and South Korean negotiators were expected on Tuesday to resume talks on the fate of the remaining 19 Korean hostages held by the militant group in Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.
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Militants who claim to be holding Northern Irish United Nations worker Annetta Flanigan hostage in Afghanistan have extended a deadline until tonight to decide her fate.
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KABUL : A Taliban splinter group claiming to hold three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan extended Wednesday&#39;s deadline for their killing as an Afghan official expressed optimism at winning the hostages&#39; release.