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Afghanistan’s kidnap economy has not quite reached the heights of Iraq’s at its worst point, but it is certainly a growth industry and shows the same ugly nexus between insurgent groups and criminal gangs in a country with often weak and corrupt...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Nations distinguish themselves by gestures large and small. In the coming weeks, Brazil will define itself to the United States and to the wider international community...
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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
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AP, Tijuana
Mexican authorities say armed gunmen have kidnapped the father of former major leaguer Oscar Robles.
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AP, Lagos
Security forces in Nigeria arrested a man for taking a Canadian woman hostage this month, but other kidnappers were still believed to be holding her, police said...
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AP, Lagos
Police in Nigeria say a Canadian woman kidnapped this month in northern Nigeria has been released unharmed.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Mogadishu
A Somali official and a clan elder say gunmen have released two European aid workers after holding them for nine days in southwestern Somalia.
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AP, Tijuana
Mexican authorities say they have dropped a kidnapping case against a U.S. man and his two sons.
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AP, Tijuana
Police say they have arrested a U.S. man and his two sons for allegedly kidnapping the father’s girlfriend.
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, New Orleans
Police say a man turned himself in Tuesday and was booked on charges of kidnapping two teens from an apartment and fatally shooting them in an abandoned house in New...
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AP, New Orleans
The bodies of a two college students kidnapped over the weekend were found Monday inside an abandoned house in a section of New Orleans east of the Mississippi River.
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AP, New Orleans
The bodies of a man and a woman kidnapped over the weekend were found Monday inside an abandoned house.
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AP, Mogadishu
About 25 masked gunmen armed with machine guns kidnapped two foreign aid workers in central Somalia on Sunday, an aid worker and a witness said.
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AP, Nairobi
An aid worker says gunmen have kidnapped two foreign aid workers in Somalia.
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AP, Lagos
Police say a Canadian woman has been kidnapped in northern Nigeria.
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AP, Detroit
A Michigan woman accused of kidnapping her daughter and fleeing the country in 2007 has been arrested in Austria.
made popular Apr 15 2009
Somalian pirates: Sea terrorist.
“US military chiefs are bolstering their forces around the Horn of Africa to help tackle Somali pirates holding a US captain...
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Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
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Imagine answering the telephone to hear an unknown voice with the bloodcurdling screams of your only daughter in the background. The callers voice is calm and cold...
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It had all the makings of a Kodak moment; the sun was shining, young Mothers were cooing lovingly at their smiling, happy babies; life was good; until... young Mommy...
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Canadian Julie Mulligan is seen following her release by kidnappers, in Kaduna, Nigeria Thursday, April 30, 2009. Mulligan, who was taken hostage April 16 in the northern city of Kaduna, where she had been attending an international conference, was freed.
