Kidnapping

Kidnapping

• 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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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. 

• 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. 

• 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 ... 

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  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 ... 

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  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, ... 

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  Phoenix police mark 50 years since Miranda arrest

  An arrest in Arizona 50 years ago that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision is the subject of an exhibit that includes the handwritten ... 

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  New York cop convicted in cannibalism plot

  Defense lawyers say all Internet users should worry that their online words can end up in federal court after a jury concluded that a New York police ... 

• 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 ... 

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  Mortar shells hit Damascus neighborhood, killing 6

  Mortar shells struck a predominantly Christian neighborhood and a football stadium at game time in Damascus on Monday, killing six civilians and ... 

• Ukrainian journalist kidnapped in Syria is free

  Russian news reports say a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped by rebels in Syria five months ago is now free. Anhar Kochneva was working as an ... 

• Nigeria: Video shows bodies of foreign hostages

  A video posted online appears to show the corpses of some of the seven foreign hostages abducted by Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria and later ... 

• Shipper: 3 sailors kidnapped off Nigeria are freed

  Three sailors — including two Russians — have been freed following weeks in captivity after pirates raided their cargo ship off the coasts of Nigeria ... 

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  Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria

  Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in ... 

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  Rebels free 21 UN captives in southern Syria

  Rebels in southern Syria freed 21 U.N. peacekeepers on Saturday after holding them hostage for four days, driving them to the border with Jordan after ... 

• Nigerian extremists claim they killed 7 hostages

  A breakaway Islamic extremist group said Saturday it had killed seven foreigners who its members kidnapped from northern Nigeria, according to an ... 

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  Jury done for day at NYC cannibal-plot trial

  A jury ended its first full day of deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of a New York City police officer accused of plotting to ... 

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  Jury begins weighing NYC cannibalism plot case

  Lawyers asked a jury on Thursday to decide whether a police officer was a monster with a badge and a dangerous desire to cannibalize women or a failed ... 

• Kidnap charge for pregnant fugitive caught in Pa.

  A pregnant woman who eluded capture for months in a gun theft case assaulted a jail guard at a hospital, jumped out a third-story window and kidnapped ... 

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  Defense rests at NY officer's cannibal plot trial

  A Russian man who operates a fetish website where prosecutors say a New York police officer met others interested in killing and cooking women told ... 

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  Chad's president: Al-Qaida chief killed in Mali

  Chadian President Idriss Deby announced Friday that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the ...