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Tag: Kidnapping and Hostages

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Cryptocurrency Ransom Demanded for Wife of Norwegian Tycoon

January 10, 2019HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL and RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILLComments Off on Cryptocurrency Ransom Demanded for Wife of Norwegian Tycoon

The police have been investigating the woman’s kidnapping for months but only recently made the case public.

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Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley

December 21, 2018STACEY STOWEComments Off on Life After Horrific Death for the Journalist James Foley

Diane Foley let the artist Bradley McCallum see her son’s unpublished journals. The result is a stunning memorial of war and its human toll.

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Mexico’s New President Restarts Investigation Into 43 Missing Students

December 3, 2018PAULINA VILLEGASComments Off on Mexico’s New President Restarts Investigation Into 43 Missing Students

Just days after taking office President Andrés Manuel López Obrador created a commission to re-examine the case of 43 students who were attacked by the police in 2014.

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Armed Men Kidnap 15 Girls in Southeastern Niger

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018REUTERSComments Off on Armed Men Kidnap 15 Girls in Southeastern Niger

About 50 gunmen seized the girls in a village about six miles from the town center, a local mayor said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

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Somali Pirates, a Kidnapping, Then a Facebook Message

November 9, 2018BENJAMIN WEISERComments Off on Somali Pirates, a Kidnapping, Then a Facebook Message

A journalist who was held captive for years exchanged messages with a man who has been charged with his hostage taking.

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Cameroon Students Have Been Released, Officials Say

November 7, 2018DIONNE SEARCEYComments Off on Cameroon Students Have Been Released, Officials Say

While the circumstances of the mass kidnapping remain unclear, more than 70 teenagers were returned to their school by masked men.

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Cameroon School Kidnappings Are Reported Amid Secession Battle

November 5, 2018November 7, 2018DIONNE SEARCEYComments Off on Cameroon School Kidnappings Are Reported Amid Secession Battle

The school is in a part of Cameroon where separatists have been fighting the government to form their own country. Students have been caught in the middle.

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