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SF Gate
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For nearly four months in solitary confinement, BBC correspondent Alan Johnston felt buried alive but buoyed by international support he knew was out there by listening to his network's radio broadcasts.
In his first lengthy remarks after being freed b..
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News.com.au
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AN Italian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan has been handed over to embassy officials after two weeks in captivity and days after his driver was executed, an Afghani news agency said.
Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah said Daniele Mastrogia..
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BBC News
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A British journalist has been freed by forces in Iraq, local media quoted the Iraqi defence ministry saying.
The journalist, who has not been named, and his Iraqi interpreter, who was previously released, were seized in Basra in February.
Both were..
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MSNBC
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Pirates have freed 30 hostages held for the past week aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia’s coast, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.
In a statement, Sarkozy thanked the French army and other French agencies “that allowed a quick e..
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CNN
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A judge in Chad on Friday freed three Spanish flight crew members who had been detained for allegedly plotting to kidnap African children from the impoverished central African country, a senior Spanish foreign ministry spokesman told CNN. The three Spania..
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CNN
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More than 2,000 workers have been freed after an accident at a South African gold mine left them stuck 2 kilometers (1.3 miles) underground but about 1,200 people remain trapped, officials say. "I'm happy now because we are out and we are alive," said Gra..
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BBC News
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A woman seized and held captive by Pakistani religious students after being accused of running a brothel has been freed unharmed.
Two female relatives abducted by students from the Islamabad madrassa, were also freed, as were two policemen.
Before h..
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