Kidnapped Italian freed in southern Philippines
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An Italian aid worker walked free from the jungles of the southern Philippines on Wednesday, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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Two Italian aid workers have been freed in Iraq after being held for three weeks by captors who threatened to kill them if the Italian government didn&#39;t give in to their demands.
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Manila (AsiaNews) - Italian Andrea Cianferoni was released this morning by his abductors after he was taken hostage yesterday afternoon at 2:30 in the town of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte in Mindanao.
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ILIGAN CITY, Philippines (dpa) - An Italian man was abducted Tuesday in the southern Philippines where he was working with a non-government organization, officials said.
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An Italian aid worker abducted in the Philippines was released unharmed early Wednesday, the military said.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.
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Three European hostages abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed.
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An Italian volunteer worker kidnapped by an unidentified group in the southern Philippines hasbeen released, the Philippine military said Wednesday.
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A relieved Italy broke into celebration after two Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago were released Tuesday, arriving home hours later aboard a private jet.
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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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Relieved Italians celebrated as Premier Silvio Berlusconi announced the safe release of two Italian aid workers who had been kidnapped in Iraq three weeks ago.
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A Filipino oil worker kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria last month has been freed unharmed, the foreign ministry in Manila said Friday.
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Two Italian military intelligence officers kidnapped in Afghanistan were freed on Monday during a raid by NATO-led troops in which nine kidnappers and an Afghan hostage were killed, Italy's defense minister said.
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Nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped last month in the restive southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa were freed, a senior government official involved in the deal told AFP.
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Two Italian aid workers kidnapped 21 days ago in an audacious daylight raid were freed Tuesday, the prime minister of Italy announced.
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BAGHDAD: Two female Italian aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad three weeks ago were released yesterday along with two Iraqi colleagues, making at least 10 the number of people freed in 24 hours.