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Militants kills 7, kidnap 4 in attack in Pakistan
Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn ...
Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio
A foreign man and woman studying Portuguese in Brazil were held for hours while the woman was sexually assaulted aboard a public transport van they ...
LA police ID suspect in girl's abduction case
A transient with a long criminal record is being sought for the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home ...
Police: British hostage taken in Nigeria released
A British man abducted in Nigeria's largest city has been released by his kidnappers, a police spokeswoman said Thursday, as other foreigners have ...
Nigerian police: Expatriate kidnapped is British
A British businessman was abducted Saturday in Lagos, a rare case of expatriate kidnapping in this West African nation's commercial center, Nigerian ...
Abducted Israeli, Norwegian set free in Egypt
An Israeli and a Norwegian tourist abducted last week by Bedouin gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were released early on Tuesday, security officials ...
Egypt officials negotiating to free 2 tourists
Egyptian intelligence officials say they are negotiating with Bedouin gunmen to free two tourists kidnapped along a main road in the south of Egypt's ...
Israeli, Norwegian tourists go missing in Egypt
An Israeli man and a Norwegian woman went missing in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday and are suspected to have been kidnapped, officials said.
Priest kidnapped by junta: not denounced by pope
A Jesuit priest who was kidnapped by the Argentine military junta in the 1970s said Wednesday that he and a fellow cleric weren't denounced by the ...
Website close to al-Qaida claims hostage executed
A French hostage was executed by al-Qaida's North African branch in retaliation for France's military intervention in northern Mali, according to an ...
Website in Mauritania says French hostage killed
A Mauritanian-based website says that al-Qaida's North African branch has executed a French hostage in retaliation for France's military intervention ...
French hostages held by Nigerian sect in new video
A video surfaced Monday showing a man who appeared to be a French hostage held by Islamic extremists with six other family members kidnapped on Feb.
Ukrainian journalist returns from Syrian captivity
A Ukrainian journalist has returned home from Syria after escaping captors who held her for more than 150 days and she recounted her ordeal Monday, ...
Report: Pope pledged to help kidnapped priest
A German newspaper says it has discovered a decades-old letter in which the future Pope Francis pledged to fight for the release of a fellow priest ...
France: Discretion needed to free Nigeria hostages
France is adopting a "determined and discrete" approach to safeguard the lives of eight French hostages kidnapped by extremist groups in and near ...
Priest kidnapped by junta: Reconciled with pope
A Jesuit priest whose kidnapping by the Argentine military junta decades ago led to strong criticism of the newly elected pope said Friday that he and ...
New pope tied up in Argentina's 'dirty war' debate
It's beyond dispute that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, like most other Argentines, failed to openly confront the 1976-1983 military junta as it kidnapped and ...
Gunmen kidnap Czech tourists in southwest Pakistan
Gunmen abducted two female Czech tourists and their police guard as they were traveling on a bus through a troubled province in southwest Pakistan, ...
Lebanon, Greece name hostages killed in Nigeria
Lebanon and Greece have identified the hostages killed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria, though two people remain unaccounted for out of the seven ...