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BP names 4th staff member killed in Algeria siege
BP has named Stephen Green as the fourth member of its staff who was killed during a terrorist assault on an Algerian gas plant last month.
Africa pirates kidnap 3 sailors in Gulf of Guinea
Pirates off the coast of Nigeria and Cameroon attacked a ship and kidnapped three sailors, including two Russians, in the latest assault on shippers ...
Ex-US envoy: $17M French ransom funded al-Qaida
A former U.S. ambassador to Mali has alleged that France paid a $17 million ransom to free hostages seized from a French mining site — cash she said ...
Colombia police: Kidnapped Germans in good health
Two German retirees who have been held captive for more than three months by leftist rebels are in good health, Colombia's anti-kidnapping police ...
Daughter of French captive favors talks, not raid
The daughter of a Frenchman being held hostage in Mali says she would oppose any military operation designed to free him. Diane Lazarevic, 24, says ...
Official: 2 kidnapped Germans are tourists
A senior Colombian official says two Germans detained by the country's No. 2 leftist rebel group are brothers aged 72 and 69 who were touring South ...
Norway honors victims of Algeria attack
Norway has paid tribute to five Statoil workers killed in what the country's oil minister called a "meaningless" terror attack on a gas field in ...
2 Russians, Italian abducted in Syria set free
Russia says two Russians and an Italian kidnapped by Syrian rebels have been freed in exchange for captured militants. Russia's Foreign Ministry said ...
Milan court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnapping
A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 ...
Attacked Algeria gas plant to partly resume work
The Algerian gas plant that was the scene of a hostage crisis that left dozens of foreigners and militants dead will soon be partially operational, ...
Colombia judge nixes ban on film on hostage's baby
A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian's attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the child born to her while she was ...
Turkey foils dissident Syrian's kidnap
Turkish security forces have rescued a Syrian opposition figure allegedly kidnapped by four men who tried to return him to his country, officials said ...
Report: UN doc links Britons to Somalia kidnapping
The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy. The newspaper says that a 2012 ...
Norway's 4th missing hostage is dead in Algeria
The Norwegian energy company Statoil says a fourth Norwegian employee missing after a terror attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria has been ...
5 Indian sailors held hostage in Nigeria are freed
Five Indian sailors kidnapped off Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta and held captive for more than a month have been released by their abductors, a ...
Woman convicted of abuse, kidnap of missing girl
A former caretaker was convicted Friday of child abuse and kidnapping in a 4-year-old foster child's disappearance more than a decade ago, but a ...
Mexico's legal soul search after Frenchwoman freed
Mexicans are engaged in national soul searching over their country's flawed justice system as newly freed Florence Cassez, earlier convicted of and ...
Norway says 3 missing hostages dead in Algeria
Norwegian energy company Statoil ASA said Friday that three Norwegian employees missing after a terror attack on a gas plant in Algeria have been ...
Frenchwoman freed from Mexican prison: I was naive
The Frenchwoman who returned home this week after seven years in a Mexican prison said that she was naive to take up with a man accused of running a ...
UK police: New arrest in Syria kidnap inquiry
British police say they've made another arrest as part of their investigation into the kidnapping of two freelance photographers in Syria. Briton John ...