BEIRUT (AFP) - (AFP) - Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said on Tuesday that Lebanese authorities had information indicating seven Estonian cyclists kidnapped three months ago in eastern Lebanon were still alive.
"According to the information I got from Lebanon's president, the kidnapped Estonians are alive and work to free them continues," Paet told Estonia's Kuku radio from Be [...]
TALLINN (AFP) - (AFP) - France is committed to helping Estonia free its seven citizens kidnapped in Lebanon but patience is required to solve the sensitive case, France's European affairs minister said Thursday in Tallinn.
"France as the country that knows Lebanon better than any other country in Europe has assisted and is assisting Estonia with all the means we have in the Lebanon kidnapping c [...]
TALLINN (AFP) - Seven Estonian tourists kidnapped in Lebanon two months ago pleaded for help in a video released Friday, criticising their government for abandoning them and saying they were in "great danger".
"We are very tired and in great danger. We ask our families and all who know us to help us," one of the seven men, Kalev Kaosaar, says in the video, a link to which was publis [...]
TALLINN (AFP) - Estonia's foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday that seven men seen begging for help in a video posted on YouTube were the tourists from the Baltic state abducted last month in Lebanon.
"The men in the video are the seven Estonians kidnapped in Lebanon," ministry spokeswoman Minna-Liina Lind told AFP.
The video, uploaded to YouTube late Tuesday, showed the men beggin [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said on Tuesday he had been told that the case of seven kidnapped Estonians was a top priority for Lebanon, and he hoped the cyclists would return home soon.
"They all said very clearly that the case was a top priority for Lebanon," Paet told reporters in Beirut after meeting the Lebanese president and interior minister as well as [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - An obscure group has claimed the kidnapping of seven Estonians in Lebanon through an email sent to a local website along with copies of the ID cards of three of those abducted, the head of the website told AFP Thursday.
"We received an email late yesterday and we informed the proper authorities," said Rabih Haber, head of Lebanon Files website. "The authorities gave us perm [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - A criminal gang of Lebanese and Syrian nationals is behind the abduction of seven Estonians kidnapped in Lebanon a week ago and a raid is under way to arrest them, a top security official told AFP on Tuesday.
"Those behind the kidnappings are Lebanese and Syrian nationals and an operation to arrest them is ongoing," said the security official, who spoke on condition of anon [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese authorities said Friday they had no leads on the whereabouts of seven Estonian cyclists kidnapped at gunpoint in Bekaa Valley, with speculation swirling as to the motive.
"An intense search to find them is still underway but we have gathered no clues that can give us an indication on their fate or their abductors," an army spokesman told AFP, requesting anonymity [...]
ZAHLE, Lebanon (AFP) - An intense search was under way on Thursday in remote areas of Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley where seven Estonian cyclists were kidnapped the day before by armed gunmen, the army said.
Army and police set up checkpoints and raided several places overnight in the mountainous area of Kfar Zabad where the gunmen were seen headed after abducting the group, an army spok [...]
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