2 Italians held hostage in Somalia are freed

AP This undated file photo made available on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by the Rome headquarters of the Italian aid organization Cooperazione Italiana Nord Sud (CINS), shows Italian aid worker Giuliano Paganini next to a sign of a CINS farm project, in Bulo Burti, north of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Paganini and another Italian aid worker, Jolanda Occhipinti, kidnapped from their house in Awdhigle, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, have been released an Italian news agency reported Tuesday, Aug, 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian aid organization CINS, HO) ROME — Two Italians kidnapped in Somalia have been released, Italy's foreign minister said Tuesday, months after men armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades surrounded the aid workers' house and... [read full story]