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World
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Africa
3/18/2024 6:21:02 PM
Kidnappers have abducted over 100 people in two new attacks in northwest Nigeria weeks after more than 250 school pupils were seized in the same state, residents and officials told AFP on Monday.
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World
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Africa
3/9/2024 8:57:54 AM
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country's northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/3/2024 8:20:32 PM
Israel's military confirmed Wednesday that a hostage kidnapped in the 7 October Hamas attack was killed during a failed army rescue operation in December in the Gaza Strip.
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Sports
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World
11/9/2023 10:11:00 PM
Luis Diaz started for Liverpool hours after his father was released following a kidnapping situation but his return could not stop his side going down 3-2 to Toulouse on Thursday.
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Sports
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World
11/9/2023 7:15:58 PM
Colombia's ELN guerrilla group on Thursday freed the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, 12 days after kidnapping him, according to live TV footage.
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Sports
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World
11/6/2023 8:09:15 PM
Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool's players have created a "safe place" for Luis Diaz since his father was kidnapped in Colombia.
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Sports
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World
11/5/2023 9:26:31 PM
Luis Diaz came off the bench to save Liverpool from a shock defeat at Luton in a 1-1 draw on Sunday on his first appearance since his parents were kidnapped in his native Colombia.
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Sports
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World
11/2/2023 7:35:33 PM
A unit of the ELN guerrilla group was behind the kidnapping in Colombia last weekend of Liverpool winger Luis Diaz's parents, the government said Thursday.
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Sports
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World
10/29/2023 12:55:46 PM
The parents of Colombian and Liverpool striker Luis Diaz were kidnapped on Saturday and while his mother was later rescued his father remained missing, authorities said.
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World
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Africa
9/30/2023 7:48:16 PM
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to see record numbers of children killed, maimed, kidnapped or sexually assaulted in 2023 for the third consecutive year, the UN said on Saturday.
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World
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Region
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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World
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International
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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World
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Region
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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World
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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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World
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International
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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World
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Africa
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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World
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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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World
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Region
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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Egypt
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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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World
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Africa
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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