Gunmen Release 4 of 7 U.N. Hostages
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A group of gunmen freed four of seven U.N. workers they had kidnapped in a renegade region of Georgia, but the abductors demanded a higher ransom for releasing the remaining three, officials said. The four U.N. observers--from Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Uruguay--were released a day and a half after being seized in the northwestern region of Abkhazia. Those still held hostage are a translator and observers from Sweden and Greece.
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