World
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Africa
3/24/2024 5:44:31 PM
At least 137 of nearly 300 Nigerian children abducted more than two weeks ago from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna were released on Sunday, the West African nation’s military said.
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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
1/29/2024 1:21:57 PM
Sri Lanka’s diplomats are talking with Somali authorities trying to ascertain the whereabouts of a fishing vessel and its six crewmembers suspected of being abducted by Somali pirates two days ago, officials said Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/20/2023 10:05:00 PM
Gaza's rulers Hamas said Friday its armed wing has released two American hostages, from around 200 captives abducted in attacks by the militant group in Israel on 7 October.
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World
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Region
10/10/2023 10:08:21 AM
Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza Tuesday after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute some of the around 150 captives it abducted in a weekend assault if air strikes continue without warning.
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 5:11:51 PM
Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch has released a new video of a United Nations worker abducted 16 months ago in the war-torn country, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
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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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World
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Africa
1/31/2023 2:46:22 PM
Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
1/21/2023 2:20:00 PM
Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
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World
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Region
8/17/2022 1:34:00 PM
The Syrian government on Wednesday denied holding American nationals captive, including journalist Austin Tice who was abducted a decade ago in Damascus.
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World
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Africa
6/2/2022 9:51:28 PM
Rebels have killed two people and abducted three others in an attack in Ethiopia's southwest, regional authorities said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
12/7/2021 12:47:32 PM
Islamist militants waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have abducted more than 600 women and children over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
11/2/2021 5:22:40 PM
Gunmen in Nigeria's capital abducted six people from the staff quarters of a university, officials said Tuesday. It was the first attack of its kind in Abuja since a wave of school kidnappings began in the country more than a year ago.
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World
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International
10/18/2021 10:59:29 AM
U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted over the weekend by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion.
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World
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Africa
9/27/2021 4:12:31 PM
Gunmen in Nigeria have freed 10 pupils abducted in the north-west state of Kaduna after collecting a ransom, The National reported Monday quoting a school official
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World
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Africa
8/31/2021 1:20:02 PM
More than three kilometres (two miles) away in the bush, the militants 'freed the men, women and some young children,' but kept the 11 other children
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World
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Africa
8/22/2021 1:02:16 PM
Scores of assailants stormed Bethel Baptist High School on July 5 on the outskirts of Kaduna State capital city Kaduna, abducting 121 students who were sleeping in their dorms.
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World
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International
7/17/2021 8:30:07 PM
Silsila Alikhil was abducted for several hours and "severely tortured by unknown individuals", Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement
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World
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Region
6/10/2021 11:46:56 AM
Before Gulen became Erdogan's arch-enemy, the elderly US-based cleric -- who denies any part in the coup -- was one of his closest and most powerful allies
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World
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International
4/19/2021 3:34:43 PM
The police were kidnapped during clashes outside the TLP's headquarters in the eastern city of Lahore. Three TLP members were killed during the violence, according to the Islamists
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