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Father confesses he held daughter prisoner for nearly 24 years
Man known as Mr. F. admits fathering seven children by his daughter.
One of the seven children died and was burned in an oven, Mr. F. said
The 42-year-old woman had been missing since...
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China has clamped down further on issuing business visas, government officials said Thursday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for next...
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A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday.
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Mexico’s transportation secretary says it has grounded two airlines for lacking proof they paid for fly rights in the country’s air space.
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Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba’s president was right to adopt a “dignified silence” over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may...
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A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast early Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of...
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DNA tests for the first time have confirmed that a baby was stolen from her mother and adopted for profit in Guatemala.
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China will allow a modicum of dissent at the Olympics, setting up special protest zones far from the main sports venues, in a shift that supporters and detractors said...
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The French electric company EDF says that 100 employees have been “slightly contaminated” by a leak at a reactor site in southern France.
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The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Ingrid Betancourt, the symbol of rebel hostages in Colombia, hugged and wept with her children for the first time in six years on Thursday after a...
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Some French citizens held as hostages around the globe have died in captivity, sometimes in total anonymity. President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn’t want that to happen...
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France is ready to take in Colombian rebels freed from jail in their homeland in exchange for hostage Ingrid Betancourt, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday.
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Police in Miami say a gunman has been wounded after taking a store manager hostage during a botched robbery attempt.
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Four Belgian tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and helicopters located the group in...
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Four Belgian tourists taken hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday as security forces in boats and helicopters closed in on them in Guatemala’s...
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The militant group that has claimed the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq has responded to pleas for their release by saying the British government is at fault for its...
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Consuelo Gonzalez rises before dawn every day, just as she did during the more than six years of crushing boredom and privation she endured as a hostage of...
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A look at key dates in the kidnapping of Clara Rojas by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and attempts to gain her release and that of her son...
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The former custodian of a child at the center of a hostage saga says he was threatened by Colombia’s largest rebel group to hand over the boy, a move that led him...
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A teenager was freed unharmed Sunday morning after being held hostage for more than 10 hours, and the man who had held her was taken into custody, authorities said.
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A woman was being held against her will in an apartment on the city’s South Side early Sunday, police said.
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AP, Rio De Janeiro
A U.N. representative and three other people have been taken hostage by Indians, and federal officials were flying to the jungle on Monday to negotiate their release.
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President Alvaro Uribe offered Friday to have government officials meet with unarmed leftist rebels in a rural area absent of government forces for talks aimed at...
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Colombia’s government said Wednesday it was canceling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s mediation role with leftist rebels in a possible hostage swap,...
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Colombia opposes any U.S. role in negotiations with the country’s main leftist rebel army to free hostages including three U.S. defense contractors, the...
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Yolanda Pulecio, mother of FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt, delivers a speech during a ceremony honoring her daughter at Bogota’s city council, Thursday, June 19, 2008. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has been held hostage by rebels of the...
