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Somali leader 'hopeful' of pirate couple release

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Somali President Sharif says efforts are being made to release a Kent couple held by pirates at the "earliest possible date".

Government minister Abdullahi Ahmed Azhari said Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were kidnapped four months ago while sailing in the Indian Ocean, could be freed within two weeks.

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