Kuwaiti firm bows to kidnappers' demands, stops work in Iraq
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The Kuwaiti firm which has seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq has decided to halt operations in the troubled country, bowing to the kidnappers' condition for their release, it said.
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A Turkish company said on Tuesday it was  suspending its operations in Iraq to save 10 employees abducted  at the weekend by an Iraqi militant group which has threatened  to kill them.
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Contrack International Inc., an Arlington engineering and construction company, became the first major U.S. firm to withdraw from a reconstruction contract in Iraq because the deteriorating security environment had made working there too costly.
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Captors of two Italian hostages in Iraq  have agreed to free the women, as early as this week, for a $1  million ransom, a Kuwaiti daily said on Tuesday in a report  splashed over the front pages of Italian newspapers.
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AMMAN, Oct 28  - The international charity CARE has shut down its operations in Iraq following the abduction last week of its director there, Briton Margaret Hassan, spokesman Arnoud Hekkens said in Jordan Thursday.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been freed by their captors. &quot;We just got custody of the drivers,&quot; Rana Abu Zaineh, a spokeswoman
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says. The Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company said the men were on their way to Kuwait.
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A TURKISH company confirmed today that 10 of its employees in Iraq had been taken hostage, but declined to say whether it would pull out from the war-torn country to save their lives.
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WASHINGTON - The US army said it had suspended its decision to partially withhold payments to Halliburton, the biggest US contractor in Iraq.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry has dismissed a claim by Iraqi militants who kidnapped and killed a Japanese hostage that Tokyo offered a ransom for his release.
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Kidnappers released a Jordanian truck driver Thursday after his company declared it would stop working in Iraq, a Jordanian Foreign Ministry official said.
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US firm Contrack pulls out of a $325m contract to rebuild Iraq's transport system  after attacks on construction efforts.
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KUWAIT CITY: A nationwide blackout hit Kuwait yesterday, forcing it to shut its three oil refineries and halt exports of refined products like gasoline, but crude production and exports were proceeding normally, top energy officials said.
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At least five foreign suspected militants surrender to Kuwaiti security forces, state TV reports.
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A Turkish shipping company says it is withdrawing from Iraq, after militants kidnapped one of its drivers and threatened to behead him.
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Contrack International Inc., an Arlington engineering and construction company, became the first major US firm to withdraw from a reconstruction contract in Iraq because the deteriorating
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HATAY/MERSIN - Renay International Transportation Company, which Turkish truck driver Mithat Civi worked for, decided to withdraw from Iraq on Sunday.