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CNN
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The U.S. military released nine Iranian detainees to the Iraqi government Friday who "no longer pose a security risk" and have no "intelligence value," a military statement said. The nine will be taken to the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and then on to Iran..
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Reuters
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Myanmar's junta released 80 monks and 149 women believed to be nuns rounded up last week in a crackdown on the biggest anti-government protests in nearly 20 years, one of those freed and relatives said on Wednesday.
Five local journalists, one of whom..
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CBS News
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U.S. military officials say a group of eight Iranians, including at least one diplomat, were released by U.S. forces Wednesday after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their car.
The U.S. says the Iranians, along with seven Iraqi..
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CNN
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Students from a radical mosque released nine hostages Saturday after seizing them hours earlier from an Islamabad acupuncture clinic they raided, the deputy administrator of the mosque said.
The captives were seven Chinese women and two Pakistani men,..
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Al Jazeera
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The official also said there was no indication the North had collected $25m from Macau bank accounts that were frozen as a result of US action and then released last week.
A February 13 six-party deal requires Pyongyang to shut down and seal the Yongb..
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FOX News
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North Korea's top nuclear negotiator told U.S. envoys Monday that his government would immediately invite U.N. nuclear inspectors into the country if $25 million in disputed North Korean funds are released.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gw..
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ABC News
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Britain said it was freezing talks on all other issues with Iran until it freed 15 Royal Navy crew members seized last week, and the British military released what it said was proof its boats were within Iraqi territorial waters when they were seized...
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Washington Post
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.
"I was responsibl..
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Yahoo News
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Hostage takers in Nigeria's restive oil region have released an American oil worker captive, police said Sunday. Gunmen who seized the man — whose name has never been released — last month handed him over unharmed to state officials late Saturday,..
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CBC
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An American fighter pilot wept and another said he was going to be sick after learning they had mistakenly fired on a British military convoy in Iraq, according to a cockpit videotape released by a London newspaper...
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BBC News
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The Pakistani government says it has now released some 3,400 people jailed under emergency rule.
The release of political opponents has been a key demand of opposition parties who are threatening to boycott parliamentary elections in January.
A numb..
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BBC News
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Three Spanish aircrew detained in Chad over an alleged plot to abduct African children have been released.
They were driven out of the capital's main prison accompanied by their lawyer and the Spanish consul.
A Belgian pilot, who is recovering at a..
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BBC News
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The US military in Iraq has released nine of the 20 Iranian citizens it has detained there, including two held on suspicion of helping Shia militants.
The release followed a review of their cases which concluded that the men no longer posed a security..
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MSNBC
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A new Osama bin Laden videotape released Tuesday on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks shows one of the suicide hijackers speaking his last will and testament into the camera as his image is superimposed upon an image of a burning World Trade C..
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Al Jazeera
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US forces have released seven Iranians hours after arresting them at a central Baghdad hotel, Iraq's state television said.
Radio Sawa, a US-financed Arabic language station, and Iran's official IRNA news agency said the delegation was in Baghdad to n..
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USA Today
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Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages on Wednesday, the first of 19 captives scheduled to be freed under a deal struck between the insurgents and the South Korean government.
The hostages were released into the care of officials of the..
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USA Today
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A Taliban leader taking part in hostage negotiations for the lives of 21 South Koreans said Saturday that the hostages would "definitely" be released and possibly as soon as "today or tomorrow."
Mullah Qari Bashir said that face-to-face negotiations wi..
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FOX News
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Israel released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in a gesture to embattled President Mahmoud Abbas, who pledged not to rest until Israel's jails were emptied of its thousands of Palestinians.
The release was meant to bolster Abbas in his powe..
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CNN
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Two men arrested in Britain's probe of the attempted terrorist attacks in late June have been released, Metropolitan Police said Sunday.
The two men, ages 28 and 25, were arrested early July 2 by Strathclyde Police at the "residences of the Royal Alexa..
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USA Today
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An investigating officer has recommended dismissing murder charges against a Marine accused in the slayings of three Iraqi men in a squad action that killed 24 civilians in Haditha, according to a report released Tuesday.
The government's theory that L..
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