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8/11/2023 5:22:24 PM
The United Nations said Friday that five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free
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6/14/2023 9:25:30 PM
Serbia said it arrested three Kosovo police on its territory Wednesday but Pristina countered that the group had been kidnapped within its borders.
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5/30/2023 12:16:05 PM
Lebanese troops rescued a Saudi citizen kidnapped over the weekend in Beirut, the army said Tuesday.
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Africa
5/23/2023 10:20:21 PM
Separatists in Cameroon's restive anglophone region, scene of six years of fighting between the state and insurgents, have kidnapped around 30 women who were protesting against violence, officials said on Tuesday.
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5/17/2023 8:46:51 PM
A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though some already have been freed, Mexico's president said Wednesday.
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4/4/2023 12:09:00 AM
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured or kidnapped in a spate of attacks in northeast and central Nigeria, police and officials said Monday.
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Africa
2/28/2023 6:06:26 PM
Unidentified militants have kidnapped 25 young people in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, an administrative official said on Tuesday, during attacks on several villages in the region.
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2/21/2023 3:44:14 PM
An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial.
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Foreign Affairs
2/16/2023 2:07:51 PM
Egyptian MP and journalist Mostafa Bakry has filed a briefing request with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry regarding the measures taken by the ministry to secure the release six Egyptian Christian workers who have been kidnapped and held for ransom in Libya for over a week.
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12/10/2022 8:05:17 PM
German aid worker Jorg Lange was freed Saturday more than four and a half years after Islamic extremists kidnapped him in the West African country of Niger, according to Help, the German aid organization where he works.
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12/9/2022 7:23:47 PM
A Sunni cleric in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan was kidnapped and killed, the authorities said Friday -- the latest deadly incident in a region rocked by unrest.
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International
10/19/2022 12:45:50 PM
French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group to keep a plant operational in Syria, at a time when the militant group was engaged in torturing kidnapped Westerners, and agreed to pay roughly $778 million in penalties.
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Africa
9/18/2022 2:47:22 PM
Five priests, a nun and two churchgoers were kidnapped by attackers who set fire to a church in western Cameroon, the Catholic Church said Sunday, the latest violence in an area hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.
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6/21/2022 2:34:47 PM
Gunmen from a criminal gang have kidnapped 36 people after attacking several villages and two churches in northwest Nigeria, a local government official said Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/11/2022 11:07:24 PM
Two Egyptian students kidnapped in South Africa were released on Friday evening after nearly a month in captivity, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement today.
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Society
5/18/2022 1:59:01 PM
The Egyptian embassy in Pretoria is currently working with the South African authorities and ATIS Aviation Academy to free two Egyptian students - Momen Haitham Kamel and Fady Said - who were kidnapped earlier this week in the African country, Minister of Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram said.
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Arts & Culture
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Entertainment
4/18/2022 6:01:47 PM
An Egyptian accountant who was among the crew of the Ramadan TV series 'Betlo' El-Roh' was kidnapped this weekend while filming in Baalbek city, Lebanon.
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4/11/2022 1:04:30 PM
Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.
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1/9/2022 12:28:29 PM
Gunmen in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state have freed 30 students and a teacher after seven months of captivity, according to a local official.
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1/2/2022 8:42:01 PM
Police in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have freed 21 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen on Friday, a spokesman said.
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