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Texas prison escapee caught after 16 years
A Texas prison escapee on the run for almost 16 years has been captured by authorities in Mexico and awaits extradition to the U.S. to finish serving ...
Review: Lisa Gardner's 'Touch & Go' is a winner
"Touch & Go" (Dutton) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner, the master of the psychological thriller, has delivered another tour de force with "Touch & Go," ...
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 ...
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 ...
Standoff: Ala. gunman holed up with kidnapped boy
A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed ...
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 ...
Trying to unlock secrets of dead serial killer
The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing. Israel Keyes showed no remorse ...
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 ...
Mexico, France divided on release of Frenchwoman
She left Mexico to jeers of "killer!" but touched down Thursday in Paris to the fanfare of a state welcome. Seven years in prison in Mexico on ...
Mexican court frees Frenchwoman in kidnapping case
A Frenchwoman who had spent seven years in prison in Mexico on kidnapping charges was flying back to Paris on Thursday after Mexico's Supreme Court ...
Algeria: 8 troops hurt while ending hostage crisis
Algeria says it did not sustain heavy losses and that only eight soldiers suffered minor wounds during a four-day siege of a gas plant by ...
Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners
Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with ...
Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege
The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, ...
Dead and missing from siege at Algerian gas plant
Here's the latest information from Algeria on the dead and missing after a bloody, four-day hostage siege at the country's remote Ain Amenas natural ...
Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara
The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for ...
Al-Qaida flourishes in Sahara, emerges stronger
The Islamists are back as a force in Algeria. The terrorist attack on an Algerian natural gas plant that left dozens of hostages and militants dead ...
Algeria terror leader preferred money to death
Moktar Belmoktar is known abroad as the man who orchestrated the abduction of scores of foreigners last week at a BP-operated plant in the remote, ...
Algeria: 32 militants killed, with 23 hostages
In a bloody finale, Algerian special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end a standoff with Islamist extremists ...
Obama says US ready to assist Algerian officials
President Barack Obama says the U.S. stands ready to provide whatever assistance officials need in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Algeria.
Canadian, Peruvian gold prospectors kidnapped
Leftist rebels kidnapped five gold prospectors doing exploratory drilling for a Canadian company before dawn Friday in a northern province of ...
State Dept.: 1 American dead in Algerian standoff
One American worker at a natural gas complex in Algeria has been found dead, U.S. officials said Friday as the Obama administration sought to secure ...