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Africa
7/5/2021 3:45:35 PM
The kidnappers took away 140 students, only 25 students escaped. We still have no idea where the students were taken, a teacher at the Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna state said
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World
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Africa
6/18/2021 7:15:12 PM
Troops in pursuit clashed early on Friday with the gunmen who had split into two groups on the run, the army said in a statement
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World
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Africa
6/6/2021 11:10:35 AM
Northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state has struggled with decades-long communal clashes over resources but more recently some groups have become more violent, looting, killing and kidnapping for ransom
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World
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Africa
5/26/2021 4:28:44 PM
A government statement said 20 others had been 'kidnapped' and four more 'wounded and hospitalised'
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Egypt
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Politics
5/24/2021 10:31:38 PM
The court acquitted the owner of the hotel where the crime took place.
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World
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Africa
5/5/2021 1:00:43 PM
Dubois was reporting in Gao in northern Mali and did not return to his hotel after lunch on 8 April
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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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World
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International
4/17/2021 6:22:43 PM
An Italian judge ordered that Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, must stand trial on charges of kidnapping over his decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country in 2019
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World
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International
4/14/2021 12:19:43 PM
On Tuesday, Rizvi was charged with instigating the murder of a police constable, who authorities say was kidnapped by protesters and later beaten to death
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Egypt
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Politics
4/13/2021 10:35:50 PM
Prosecution also found that the defendant published a booklet claiming that he has an academic degree which he in fact did not hold
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World
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International
3/21/2021 9:50:58 AM
Philippine troops have killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group and rescued four Indonesian hostages held since last year, the military said on Sunday
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World
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Africa
3/15/2021 3:15:40 PM
Sarkin Mota, a resident, told Reuters his son was among those kidnapped including three of his teachers
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World
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International
3/13/2021 9:58:29 PM
A London police officer appeared in court on Saturday after being charged with the kidnap and murder of a 33-year-old woman in a case that has caused widespread outrage in Britain about women’s safety
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World
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Africa
3/12/2021 6:24:19 PM
After a distress call, the army rescued 180 people in the early hours of Friday but 'about 30 students, a mix of males and females, are yet to be accounted for', Kaduna state's security commissioner said.
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Egypt
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Politics
3/10/2021 11:16:00 PM
The prosecution says it has gathered evidence against the defendant based on CCTV footage as well as the testimony of the victim and four other witnesses
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World
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Africa
3/2/2021 6:05:29 PM
Nigeria has seen several such attacks and kidnappings in recent years, the most notorious in 2014, when 276 girls were abducted by the jihadist rebels of Boko Haram in Borno state
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World
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Africa
2/28/2021 12:21:18 PM
The Government Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe, northwestern Nigeria was completely deserted following the mass abduction
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World
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Africa
2/27/2021 3:14:52 PM
Kidnappings for ransom by armed groups, many of whom carry guns and ride motorcycles, are common across many northern Nigerian states
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World
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Africa
2/26/2021 1:38:22 PM
Heavily-armed criminal gangs in northwest and central Nigeria have stepped up attacks in recent years, kidnapping for ransom, raping and pillaging
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World
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Africa
2/22/2021 10:27:02 AM
Seven people on board a military aircraft died in a crash on Sunday near Nigeria's capital Abuja, the country's airforce spokesman said
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