Saturday, January 10, 2009

hostages

Tuesday 23 December 2008 React (1)

Uribe rejects foreign help in hostage release

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Following the FARC's recent offer to release six hostages, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe rejected foreign help in negotiating their release in a comment apparently aimed at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Saturday 20 December 2008 React (0)

Betancourt to write memoir of her six-year hostage ordeal

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Ingrid Betancourt says she will leave public life for a while to write a memoir of the more than six years she spent as a hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Betancourt was freed in July by a Colombian military operation.

Friday 19 December 2008 React (0)

German hostages freed by tribesmen

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Three German nationals who were held captive for five days by Yemeni tribesmen were freed on Friday. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement that the three were "doing well under the circumstances."

Sunday 07 December 2008 React (0)

Betancourt to bring FARC deserter to France

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Wilson Bueno alias "Isaza", a former FARC guerilla who deserted and freed a hostage, is due to travel to France shortly with ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt. The man was promised a reward and asylum in France.

Thursday 04 December 2008 React (0)

Freed French hostage expected in Paris

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French aid worker Dany Egreteau, who was kidnapped a month ago in the Afghan capital Kabul, has been released and will be flown back home to Paris late Thursday, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.

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