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# Abducted

New Boko Haram video claims to show missing Nigerian schoolgirls

A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, 223 are still missing.

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May 12th 2014, 12:04 PM

# Portugal

Madeleine McCann: Police begin ground searches near apartment complex

Earlier this year British detectives said they were looking for a paedophile who sexually abused five girls during break-ins at holiday homes between 2004 and 2010.

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May 7th 2014, 7:41 AM

# bring back our girls

Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls reportedly sold into marriages

Around 220 schoolgirls are still missing after being abducted by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

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Apr 30th 2014, 10:19 PM

# Ibadan

Rotting bodies and skeletons found in Nigerian ‘House of Horror’

Police also rescued several severely malnourished people found wandering nearby. It’s reported that others were found alive, shackled inside.

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Mar 23rd 2014, 8:30 PM

# War on Terror

New video shows only American soldier still held by Taliban is alive

The video, sent to officials in the US, is the first proof in more than three years that Bowe Berghdal is still alive.

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Jan 16th 2014, 7:15 AM

# kidnapped

Two French journalists have been killed in Mali

The journalists had recently interviewed a rebel leader in the country.

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Nov 2nd 2013, 6:01 PM

# Missing

Discovery of girl in Greek Roma camp gives hope to missing boy's family

Ben Needham went missing in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos and links were previously made to the Roma community in the area he disappeared from.

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Oct 19th 2013, 2:45 PM

# Syria

Three kidnapped Red Cross staffers are 'free and safe'

Seven staff had been kidnapped when their convoy was stopped at a roadside.

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Oct 14th 2013, 6:50 PM

# kidnapped

Seven Red Cross workers kidnapped in northern Syria

The group was kidnapped early this morning.

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Oct 13th 2013, 6:30 PM

# Libya

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan freed just hours after kidnapping

The pre-dawn seizure of Zeidan came five days after US commandos embarrassed and angered Libya’s government.

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Oct 10th 2013, 11:05 AM

# Nigeria

British national kidnapped in Lagos

It is reported that the man was abducted while travelling into the city after landing at the airport.

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Jul 19th 2013, 9:45 PM

# April Jones

Man found guilty of murdering 5-year-old April Jones

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.

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May 30th 2013, 1:46 PM

# Taiz

Gunmen kidnap two foreign tourists in Yemen

A man and a woman were seized today while they were outside a hotel in the eastern part of the central Yemeni city of Taiz.

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May 27th 2013, 6:16 PM

# missing children

The anguish of parents and families highlighted on International Missing Children's Day

A child going missing is every parent’s nightmare – but what services are available to support the parents and families of missing children?

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May 25th 2013, 1:06 PM

# kidnapped

Miracle escapes: The kidnapped children who returned home

Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Elizabeth Smart: All were kidnapped, all returned home.

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May 11th 2013, 8:15 AM

# kidnapped

Afghan Taliban capture Turkish civilians after helicopter lands

Eight Turks and an Afghan from a civilian helicopter which made an emergency landing have been captured by Taliban insurgents.

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Apr 22nd 2013, 8:34 AM

# kidnapped

Seven French holidaymakers kidnapped in Cameroon

A family of French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped by a Nigerian terrorist group suspected to be Boko Haram.

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Feb 19th 2013, 7:17 PM

# Rescue

'Brave' five-year-old safe after week-long hostage ordeal

The kidnapper was killed during the rescue operation.

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Feb 5th 2013, 9:16 AM

# kidnapped

Two kidnapped Dutch children found in Bosnia

Bosnian have located two Dutch children who were kidnapped in the Netherlands last year and arrested their former foster parents.

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Jan 16th 2013, 7:36 PM

# Algeria

Irish citizen among oil-workers kidnapped from BP plant in Algeria

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has called for the immediate release of an Irish citizen reportedly among those kidnapped from a BP oil field in the south of Algeria.

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Jan 16th 2013, 11:55 AM

# Syria

NBC journalist and TV crew escape abduction in Syria

More than a dozen armed gunmen kidnapped and held NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days in Syria.

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Dec 19th 2012, 10:02 AM

# Ransom

Berlusconi's accountant held hostage for €35 million ransom

Armed intruders demanded the ransom from the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after holding his accountant hostage for a night.

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Nov 20th 2012, 10:15 AM

# Trouble

Hulk's sister 'kidnapped' in Brazil - reports

The player’s mother was quoted by the daily Correio as saying that the family are “waiting for a contact”.

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Nov 6th 2012, 1:02 PM

# kidnapped

VIDEO: Syria rebels say hostages are elite soldiers from Iran

The rebels say that the Iranians kidnapped yesterday are actually Revolutionary Guards and not pilgrims, as was originally claimed.

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Aug 5th 2012, 1:44 PM

# Middle East

48 pilgrims from Iran kidnapped in Syria - reports

The 48 Iranians were abducted by armed terrorists who boarded their bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

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Aug 4th 2012, 3:14 PM

# Argentina

Argentina jails former dictators over stolen baby scandal

Infants were illegally taken from their political prisoners parents 30 years ago.

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Jul 6th 2012, 8:59 AM

# Nigeria

German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria killed

Reports of the killing say it’s unclear if the hostage was killed before or during a failed rescue attempt.

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May 31st 2012, 5:00 PM

# Pakistan

Al-Qaeda releases video of American hostage

In the video, hostage Warren Weinstein says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group’s demands.

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May 7th 2012, 9:27 AM

# Texas

Nurse charged with murder after woman shot, baby snatched

The three-day-old boy was taken from his mother after she was fatally wounded outside a Houston hospital.

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Apr 18th 2012, 3:35 PM

# Baby Snatched

Three-day-old baby abducted as mother lay fatally wounded

The infant was found later yesterday after being grabbed from his dying mother.

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Apr 18th 2012, 7:42 AM

# pic of the day

Fake Retro Gangster Pic of the Day

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Mar 25th 2012, 10:00 AM

# Free

Kidnapped British woman freed by Somali pirates

Judith Tebbutt and her husband David were kidnapped in September. David was killed during the attack – a fact Judith, who spent six months in captivity, did not find out until weeks after.

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Mar 22nd 2012, 2:31 PM