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Nigeria steps up search for 39 students kidnapped from hostels
Dozens of students were kidnapped in northwestern Kaduna after gunmen stormed a college.
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Dozens of students were kidnapped in northwestern Kaduna after gunmen stormed a college.
42 people, including 27 children, have been freed.
The 50-year-old man was treated in hospital for serious injuries to his face and leg.
Gardaí are attempting to trace every movement between Saturday afternoon and his death on Sunday.
She was abducted and forced to take sedatives while held captive in a shed and Hindu temple.
Her biological family are said to be “elated”.
On 26 April 1991, Charles Brooke Pickard was bundled into his own van by a group of masked men.
The search is just 1km from where Charles Brooke Pickard’s car was found 25 years ago.
Maria Mancia had been left with just a single photo of her son since his father took him in 1995.
Charles Brooke Pickard is believed to have been murdered after he was abducted in 1991.
The child had been taken in Albuquerque after her mother’s car was stolen.
The 13-year-old went missing 29 years ago this month. Gardaí are still actively investigating his disappearance.
UNICEF says that armed soldiers searched the area house by house.
A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, 223 are still missing.
Meanwhile, Gerry Adams is still being questioned by Antrim police about the woman’s abduction and murder.
Everybody’s talking about Savita, arrests in connection with a murder, and a cash-in-transit robbery.
Police are trawling through the phone records of people who were staying at the Portuguese resort at the time the little girl went missing.
The young girl’s body has still never been found, though blood and tiny bone fragments that were a near-perfect DNA match were found at Bridger’s cottage.
More than a dozen armed gunmen kidnapped and held NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days in Syria.
Mark Bridger, 46, appeared at Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of the missing girl.
Police also say it is “no longer appropriate” for members of the public to continue helping in the search for the five-year-old.
The search for five-year-old April Jones has will continue today, despite adverse weather conditions.
Earlier today, the missing girl’s older sister made an emotional appeal for April’s return. “It’s been too long,” she said.
Infants were illegally taken from their political prisoners parents 30 years ago.
Reports of the killing say it’s unclear if the hostage was killed before or during a failed rescue attempt.
The three-day-old boy was taken from his mother after she was fatally wounded outside a Houston hospital.
The four were in a restaurant in Timbuktu when four armed men forced them out of the building.
Twenty-nine-year-old Ciarán Noonan was abducted from the East Wall area of Dublin on 20 October.
Kenyan police say they believe Somali militant group al-Shabab is behind the attack, which comes after the group’s recent warning of “bloody battles” which would endanger the lives of civilians.
The 66-year-old woman was taken from her rented house on a Kenyan island earlier this month by suspected Somali militants.
The MSF employees were kidnapped from the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya by gunmen believed to be part of Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group.
Kenyan and French authorities are working to free Marie Dedieu from her captors in Somalia. She was abducted amid a shoot-out on the sea yesterday.
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Six-year-old May Assad Monaghan was taken by her father from Cyprus on Wednesday and brought to Syria. He is demanding that her Irish mother travel to Syria to live with them.
Police in Northern Ireland will resume a search for the remains of murdered teenager Arlene Arkinson tomorrow.
Images used to portray the blogger Amina Arraf have been revealed as those of a London woman, who says she’s never met Arraf.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched from the street she lived on in June 1991, and was kept hidden in a back garden for 18 years. She gave birth to two daughters during that time.