Prisoner Exchange
BARCELONA, Spain - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom - a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said.
NEW YORK - The spy exchange unfolding in Moscow, New York and points between evokes a bygone era when cold war teetered on the verge of hot, superpowers sniffed out each other's deadliest secrets, and the swaps even had a ringmaster in a dapper German communist.
Some notable past spy swaps involving the United States and the former Soviet Union:
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's intelligence minister on Sunday signaled that Tehran might be open to a prisoner swap with the U.S.
PARIS - France's interior minister signed an expulsion order on Monday paving the way for the likely release of a man convicted of assassinating former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar.
