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The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.

The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.

Dublin - A Greek plane heading for New York from Athens made an emergency landing in Ireland on Tuesday after a bomb alert ? the second such incident in three days. All the passengers were safely taken off the plane, a spokeswoman for Ireland's airport authority said. Baghdad - Two female Italian hostages seized in Baghdad three weeks ago along with two Iraqi colleagues were released on Tuesday and are safe and well, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said. Within minutes of their release, an Egyptian telephone company said four of six of its engineers snatched last week had also been set free, raising hopes for the other foreigners still being held hostage in Iraq. Karachi - Security forces have detained more than a dozen suspected militants, including some linked to al Qaeda, after killing Pakistan's most wanted man in a weekend shootout, intelligence sources said on Tuesday. Suspects were picked up in all four of Pakistan's provinces. Gaza - Palestinian gunmen freed an Israeli Arab producer for CNN television unharmed on Tuesday a day after kidnapping him in the Gaza Strip. Riad Ali said his captors told him they were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Spokesmen for the Brigades has denied involvement.

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