Apologetic South Korean hostages return home
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for saving them from death.
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The final South Koreans freed by the Taleban arrive home, amid rows over the deal that secured their release.
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SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIANS: 23 South Korean Christian aid workers are taken hostage while traveling by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Two of the hostages were shot and two women were freed. The Taliban agree to free the remaining 19 in exchange for a promise from South Korea to end missionary work in Afghanistan and withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year, as previously planned.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed by guerrillas in Iraq at the weekend will return home soon, state media said on Monday.
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Two French journalists freed from a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq came home Wednesday, saying they had feared for their lives &#151; sometimes being moved bound and blindfolded in the back of a truck amid the sounds of nearby explosions &#151; but had never lost hope.
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Nineteen newly-freed South Korean hostages flew out of the Afghan capital on Friday after a six-week kidnap drama following a deal with Taliban insurgents critics fear could spur more abductions.
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Taliban militants released three female South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity, the South Korean government said Wednesday.
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Two French journalists who were freed yesterday after being held hostage in Iraq for four months have arrived back in Paris. Christian Chesnot of Radio France Internationale and Georges Malbrunot of the daily
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Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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TWO French journalists returned to a heroâs welcome last night after 124 days in captivity in Iraq and explained how they saved their lives by convincing their kidnappers they were not Americans but French, and friends of Iraq.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Nineteen South Koreans flew out of Afghanistan yesterday after spending nearly six weeks in Taliban captivity, as Afghanistan's main opposition political party criticized the agreement that led to their release.
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A plane carrying 19 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks arrived in Seoul on Sunday.
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Five Swedish children taken to the Gaza Strip by their Palestinian father more than six months ago in a bitter custody fight headed home Friday in time for a dramatic Christmas Day reunion.
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American journalist Paul Salopek returned home to New Mexico on Sunday, a day after being freed from prison in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region where he had been held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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A South Korean delegation arrived in  Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23  Koreans held hostage by Taliban guerrillas, a South Korean  embassy official said.
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Officials investigating the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea return with documentation.
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq headed home Wednesday, ending a drama that has gripped their country for four months and appears to have turned on its opposition to the war in Iraq.