Two French soldiers killed in operation to free four hostages in Burkina Faso
One American, one Korean and two French hostages were freed in the operation.
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One American, one Korean and two French hostages were freed in the operation.
In January, leader of the opposition Juan Guaido declared himself to be the country’s president.
When Jake Thomas Patterson left the remote cabin on the 88th day of her captivity, Jayme Closs finally made a break for freedom.
It was the first mass kidnapping to hit Cameroon and one of the gravest incidents in 13 months of pro-independence violence.
Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle were kidnapped during a backpacking trip in Afghanistan in 2012.
Nichols (86) was sentenced to 85 years in prison for kidnapping biathlete Kari Swenson in 1984.
At the time of the false imprisonment, the accused would not accept that the relationship was over.
The child’s Norwegian father and Greek Cypriot mother have been engaged in a bitter custody battle.
The party is believed to have included members of the Qatari royal family.
Ecclestone’s 67-year-old mother-in-law Aparecida Schunck Flosi Palmeira was kidnapped on 22 July.
Local reports say that the woman was snatched from her home in Sao Paulo.
Alan Pulido was reportedly kidnapped by armed men yesterday.
A campaign group said today the 19-year-old was not on the list.
The North insists they were tricked into defecting by South Korean spies who effectively “kidnapped” them.
More than 200 girls were abducted from a secondary school in Chibok on 14 April 2014.
Young Ashir Simmons was found about five hours later.
He has asked his government in Japan to help secure his release from an al-Qaeda linked rebel group.
The trial began today of a man accused of drugging, raping and detaining a young woman in a bunker.
The individuals were taken from an interpreter’s home in Baghdad.
The story of James Riak, an aid worker with GOAL in South Sudan, who was kidnapped from his family as a ten-year-old and trained as a child soldier.
Alfio Anthony Granata repeatedly raped a Dutch tourist over the course of six-weeks.
Pupils at the teenager’s school noticed similarities between her and a younger biological sister.
His sister made a plea for his safe return just this morning.
Both were kidnapped on the eve of this week’s Miss World contest in London.
Gardaí are searching for two armed men.
They’re to be replaced by 130 new peacekeepers.
Diane Foley said her family was warned it would be charged if it tried to raise ransom money to free James.
The boy has a brain tumour and needs medical attention.
The 83-year-old woman is the head of the Argentinian organisation which tracks down babies stolen during the military dictatorship.
62 people have been killed on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah today after the collapse of a US and UN brokered ceasefire
The Juventus striker has reportedly now cancelled his return to Argentina.
Troops carried out their biggest arrest operation in years last night, detaining 80 Palestinians.
The woman was forced into a car and tied up in a car park near her college campus.
Eyewitnesses say the women were forced into vehicles at gunpoint.
Bowe Bergdahl’s release has sparked a national debate in the US: was he an American prisoner of war? Or a deserter who abandoned his unit?
Authorities have revised down number of girls kidnapped. There are 219 girls still missing.
China has also offered its assistance, while the United Nations imposed sanctions on Boko Haram
President Barack Obama made the announcement today.
Meanwhile, a regional governor has said that all of the girls shown in a video release by the militant group had been identified as students in the school attacked last month.