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AP, Islamabad
The United Nations said Wednesday it is very concerned about the health of an American official from its refugee agency who was kidnapped in Pakistan and said it is...
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexican police say they have captured four men suspected of kidnapping an Italian businessman, and say one of the men told police the victim had been ordered killed,...
made popular Mar 1 2009
AP, Quetta
A suspected separatist group holding an American U.N. worker in Pakistan says it will kill him in four days if its demands are not met.
made popular Mar 1 2009
AP, Geneva
The U.N. refugee agency said Friday it is “very concerned” about the health of an American aid worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan.
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, Rome
Two Italian nuns who were kidnapped in Kenya four months ago and taken into lawless Somalia were freed on Thursday, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said.
made popular Feb 19 2009
AP, Quetta
The kidnappers of an American U.N. workers seized in Pakistan have threatened to kill him within 72 hours unless more than 100 prisoners are released.
made popular Feb 13 2009
AP, Quetta
The kidnappers of an American U.N. worker seized in Pakistan have released a video showing the hostage asking the world body to help secure his release.
made popular Feb 13 2009
AP, San'a
A Yemeni airport official says two Germans held hostage by tribesmen in Yemen for five days are returning home.
made popular Dec 23 2008
AP, San'a
Kidnappers holding three Germans in Yemen are demanding the release of a cleric jailed in the United States on terrorism charges, tribal mediators said Thursday.
made popular Dec 18 2008
AP, Mexico City
U.S. anti-kidnapping expert Felix Batista went willingly with his abductors and no ransom demand has been made in the week since he disappeared, a Mexican prosecutor...
made popular Dec 18 2008
AP, Mexico City
Felix Batista had negotiated with kidnappers scores of times to win the release of victims. But the U.S. security expert has vanished after a series of mysterious phone...
made popular Dec 16 2008
AP, Mexico City
A U.S. anti-kidnapping expert was abducted by gunmen in northern Mexico last week, a sign of just how bold this nation’s kidnapping gangs have become.
made popular Dec 16 2008
AP, Mexico City
A well-known U.S. anti-kidnapping expert has himself fallen victim to the wave of abductions in Mexico as unidentified assailants snatched him from a street in the...
made popular Dec 15 2008
AP, San'a
Tribesmen kidnapped a German aid worker and her parents in southern Yemen on Monday and were holding them hostage, demanding the government release imprisoned clan...
made popular Dec 15 2008
AP, Berlin
Germany’s Foreign Ministry says three nationals went missing this weekend in Yemen and are presumed to have been kidnapped.
made popular Dec 15 2008
AP, San`a
A security official and tribal leadedr say tribesmen have kidnapped three Germans in southern Yemen and are holding them hostage, demanding the government release...
made popular Dec 15 2008
AP, Nairobi
Two foreign journalists were kidnapped in northern Somalia on Wednesday while doing a story on the rampant piracy in the region, a police spokesman said.
made popular Nov 26 2008
AP, Peshawar
Police say gunmen have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat after killing his guard in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
made popular Nov 13 2008
AP, Vienna
Austria’s government says two Austrians kidnapped more than eight months ago while on holiday in Tunisia have been released.
made popular Oct 31 2008
AP, Accra
A top security official says an Israeli businessman has been kidnapped in Ghana and the kidnappers have contacted his family to demand a $300,000 ransom.
made popular Oct 25 2008
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AP, New York
Tourists in New York can expect to see some construction projects at national monuments in the coming months.
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Salt Lake City
Tourists who want to put a hand or foot in each of four states at the Four Corners area are apparently off the mark _ by about 2.5 miles. According to readings by the...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Athens
Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis _ one of Europe’s most famous cultural sites _ found themselves met at the gate by striking guards...
made popular Feb 26 2009
AP, Tokyo
Tourists are known for acting silly, but licking the tuna?
made popular Jan 26 2009
AP, Washington
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid defended himself Wednesday over a joking comment that tourists to the Capitol sometimes smell.
made popular Dec 10 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax...
made popular Nov 28 2008
AP, New York
Overseas shoppers who once arrived in the U.S. with empty suitcases to take back their holiday loot may decide to stay home this year amid high-priced airline tickets,...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Vienna
Austria’s government says two Austrians kidnapped more than eight months ago while on holiday in Tunisia have been released.
made popular Oct 31 2008
AP, Cairo
A European tour group kidnapped in the Sahara Desert was abruptly freed after a phone call to one of the captors, and all 19 hostages piled into a single car, some...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Berlin
Five Germans and five Italians who were part of a 19-member tourist group kidnapped in Egypt and taken by their abductors on a dash through the Sahara Desert returned...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops, backed by European commandos, rescued a tour group that was kidnapped in Egypt and taken on a 10-day dash across the Sahara to the...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued an abducted 19-member European tour group in an assault on the kidnappers in the remote Sahara borderland, officials said. The...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Cairo
A kidnapped 19-member European tour group was freed Monday and the 11 tourists and eight Egyptian guides and drivers are in good health and on their way to Cairo,...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Rome
Italian news reports are quoting the foreign minister as saying 11 Europeans and eight Egyptians kidnapped in a distant corner of Egypt’s desert have been freed.
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Khartoum
Eight kidnappers of a group of missing European tourists led soldiers on a high-speed chase through Sudan’s northern desert on Sunday, ending with a firefight...
made popular Sep 28 2008
AP, Khartoum
The Sudanese army says that it killed six alleged kidnappers in a high speed chase across the northern Sudanese desert, but the missing Europeans are still being held.
made popular Sep 28 2008
AP, Cairo
A Sudanese official says kidnappers have taken to Libya 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians they abducted last week in a remote part of southwestern Egypt.
made popular Sep 25 2008
AP, Aswan
Sudanese troops are keeping watch over a band of kidnappers holed up in the desert after snatching a 19-member tour group in Egypt, but are not closing in on them,...
made popular Sep 24 2008
AP, Cairo
A group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians were kidnapped during an adventure safari to one of the remotest sites in Egypt deep in the Sahara desert and were...
made popular Sep 22 2008
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A construction worker secures an area around a damaged tour bus struck by a section of fallen crane in downtown Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, April 24, 2009. A section of crane from a high-rise building under construction crushed a bus, killing two Chinese...
