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Thu 03 Mar 2007Ethiopian police say finding UK hostages is race against timeETHIOPIA:Ethiopian police said they were facing an increasingly desperate race against time yesterday to find five Britons missing in the remote Danakil desert of north-eastern Ethiopia.The three men and two women, who are all connected to the British embassy in Addis Ababa, enter their seventh day held hostage in a region where food, water and medicines are all but impossible to find.