The US State Department has added a new indicator to its travel advisories to flag the high risk of kidnapping in 35 countries around the world, including Turke...
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Baluch insurgent group on Thursday claimed responsibility for killing 14 people in southwest Pakistan, it said in a statement ema...
The New Zealand Government reconsidered its strict no ransom policy after the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS) kidnapped Kiwi nurse Louisa Akavi in 2013....
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The Nigeria Police Force has arrested three suspects involved in the kidnap of Channels television reporter, Friday Okeregbe. The reporter was kidnapped in Lugb...
Fourteen people have been killed after unidentified attackers ambushed a bus in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. Officials and local media said gunmen for...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An Australian man accused of kidnapping a two-year-old boy who was walking with his mother in San Francisco’s Castro District made his first appearance in court on Tuesday....
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Police in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Aachen have taken two men, ages 35 and 36, into custody after a brutal robbery....
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Despite politician pledges to rescue them, they are still missing and their cause lost among other tragedies in a country plagued by crime and conflict....
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It was supposed to be a harmless liaison, starting as it sometimes did: an attractive profile on a gay site, a few messages about nothing much at all, an exchange of photos, and an agreement to meet....
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Kenyan officials say Cuban doctors deployed along the border with Somalia are being evacuated following the kidnapping last week of two Cuban doctors....
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The New York Times and the Red Cross revealed the 63-year-old had been taken in 2013, but the prime minister did not agree with the move...
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The Mexican Red Cross briefly shuttered operations in the central city of Salamanca after a man wounded by gunfire was pulled from one of its ambulances by gunmen over the weekend....
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Louisa Akavi, 62, and two Syrian colleagues have been held hostage for longer than anyone in the 156-year history of the international aid organisation, and the...
Al-Shabab militants are suspected in the abduction of two Cuban doctors working in Mandera, a Kenyan town on the border with Somalia. Kenyan police say the two ...
Zain Qaiser from Barking, London, used his programming skills to scam visitors to pornography sites around the world. Investigators have discovered about £700,000 of his profits - but his network may have made more than £4m....
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors working in Kenya and shot dead a police officer, television broadcaster KTN News and the Dail...
WASHINGTON — The risk of being kidnapped or taken hostage is being added to the travel advisories issued by the State Department. State Department advisories ha...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has suspended mining in the restive northwestern state of Zamfara, a presidential aide and the police chief said on Sunday, amid concerns that illegal miners were connected to a surge in banditry....
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Cameroon's military has rescued five people who were abducted and held for months inside the Central African Republic. The hostages, found Tuesday abandoned in ...
VOA's Halima Athumani in Kampala contributed to this report. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni offered reassurances Monday that his country is a safe place to ...
Piracy attacks off Nigeria’s coast fell to 14 in the first quarter from 22 a year ago after the navy improved its response to incidents, the International Maritime Bureau said. The Gulf of Guinea retained its notoriety for piracy with 22 incidents re...
The release of American Kimberly Endicott by kidnappers in a Ugandan national park has reignited a debate over a longstanding U.S. policy to refuse to pay ranso...
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