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Qatar
26 members of hunting party kidnapped in Iraq in 2015 freed
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Brazil
Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law rescued from kidnappers after week in captivity
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Olympiakos footballer rescued after being kidnapped in Mexico
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Boko Haram
Questions raised about Nigerian woman after claim she was among 219 kidnapped girls
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North Korea wants the South to prove it didn't kidnap 12 women
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Nigeria
Two years on, video appears to show schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
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Philadelphia
Seven-week-old baby kidnapped from shopping centre as his mam took a phone call
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Group of American civilians kidnapped in Iraq
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Rescue
US journalist and South African teacher killed in Yemen during rescue operation
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Three women taken at gunpoint during 'tiger kidnapping' in Dublin
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'Great escape' Irish troops get ready to leave Golan Heights
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Israeli soldier was 'dragged into a tunnel' by Gaza militants, says IDF
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Aug 1st 2014, 6:57 PM
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Jul 29th 2014, 5:43 PM
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Jun 15th 2014, 5:01 PM
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Homecoming
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