Germany to free hostage-taker
Germany plans to grant early release on Sunday to a Lebanese member of the pro-Iranian Hizbollah organisation who was convicted of hostage-taking in a case related to the killing of a US navy sailor during a hijacking, AP reports from Berlin. Abbas Hamadi, 34, will be freed 13 months after two German aid workers were set free in Lebanon.
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