Yemen tribesmen kidnap 5 French tourists: official
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped on   Sunday five French tourists in the east of the country, a   Yemeni government official said.
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Saudi Arabia has detained five people suspected of spreading Islamic militant ideology in the kingdom, which is battling an 18-month wave of al Qaeda violence, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban  on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera  said Saturday.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera said on Saturday.
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An Iraqi group reportedly holding two French journalists has demanded a $5 million ransom - to be paid within 48 hours. The statement was posted on a website and suggested Journalists Christian Chesnot and
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are missing and believed kidnapped in a remote area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate, diplomats said on Friday.
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped four   French tourists in the east of the country on Sunday to press   for their relatives to be released from jail, Yemeni and French   officials said.
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Saudi Arabia has detained five people  suspected of spreading Islamic militant ideology in the  kingdom, which is battling an 18-month wave of al Qaeda  violence, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French citizens and is demanding the French government end a  ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.
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A Somali clan elder has met with a French journalist being held by kidnappers who have increased their ransom demand to $1 million, the elder said Wednesday.
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Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve.
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Yemen detained dozens of suspected al Qaeda supporters on Sunday, following the killing of two Belgian tourists and their Yemeni drivers in the east of the impoverished country, an official said.
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Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Gunmen open fire on a group of tourists in eastern Yemen, killing three people, security official says
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped up to   five foreign tourists in the east of the country on Sunday, a   Yemeni government official said.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Several Britons are among a group of tourists missing after kidnap reports in Ethiopia, the UK government says.