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Group including Turkish missionaries has been kidnapped in Haiti: reports

A group of people including at least eight Turkish missionaries has been kidnapped in Haiti after traveling by bus from the Dominican Republic, according to Haitian and Dominican media, amid a wave of gang violence in Haiti.

Reuters

Seeing the unseen: A somber tour through one of Baltimore’s ugliest chapters of enslavement

BALTIMORE -- There is no evidence at Oriole Park at Camden Yards that people were sold at the site. In 1858, Joseph S. Donovan, one of Baltimore’s major slave dealers, built a slave pen near the southwest corner of Eutaw and Camden streets. It was one of about a dozen…

Tribune News Service

Andhra Pradesh: Six-year-old girl kidnapped, raped in Anakapalle

VIJAYAWADA: In yet another incident of crime against children in Andhra Pradesh, a six-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a neighbour when she along with her elder sister went out to relieve herself in the fields under Narsipatnam police station limits in Anakapalle district on Thursday night.

The Times of India

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Pope gave green light to secret deal to free kidnapped nun, court told

Pope Francis approved a secret million-euro operation to free a Colombian nun who was held captive for more than four years by an Islamist militant group in Mali before she was released in 2021, a cardinal told a Vatican court on Thursday.

Reuters

Cardinal says Pope authorized €1M payment to free kidnapped nun

A cardinal has testified that Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali

The Independent UK

U.S. indicts four people for conspiring to smuggle arms to Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang

U.S. prosecutors have indicted three Haitians and one U.S. citizen for conspiring to smuggle arms to Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, which last year kidnapped a group of missionaries from the United States and Canada.

Reuters

Dominican diplomat freed four days after Haiti kidnap

A Dominican diplomat was kidnapped in Haiti and released after four days, the Dominican Republic's foreign minister said on Monday, in an abduction that coincides with a spike in gang violence in the Caribbean country.

Reuters

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Dominican diplomat is kidnapped in Haiti as violence between rival gangs intensifies

A diplomat assigned to the Dominican Republic’s Port-au-Prince embassy is Haiti’s latest kidnapping victim, a senior Haitian government official has confirmed.

Miami Herald

Nigeria train kidnappers using victims as human shields -president

Armed gangs who kidnapped dozens of passengers in an attack on a train in northern Nigeria are using civilians as human shields, making it difficult for the military to carry out a rescue mission, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday.

Reuters

Uttar Pradesh: Basti police & STF rescue 13-year-old boy kidnapped for Rs 50 lakh ransom

LUCKNOW/GORAKHPUR: Basti police and the Special Task Force (STF) rescued 13-year-old boy Akhand Kasoudhan, son of a cloth trader, from Gorakhpur, a week after he was kidnapped and a demand of Rs 50 lakh in ransom was made for his safe release.

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Basti police, STF rescue minor boy kidnapped for Rs 50 lakh ransom

The Times of India

UP: STF rescue kidnapped boy; two accused arrested

The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police has rescued a boy kidnapped from Basti district. Full story on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Brit, 22, missing in Ukraine 'told friends he was OK' before he was captured by Russians

Dylan Healy was reportedly kidnapped by Russian forces in south Ukraine on Monday. The 22-year-old has not contacted anyone on social media since

Daily Mirror

Warrington humanitarian worker 'kidnapped' by Russians in Ukraine

Paul Urey has reportedly been taken along with another British volunteer

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Woman arrested in baby kidnapping met family at church

The mother of a 3-month-old baby kidnapped from their San Francisco Bay Area home says a woman arrested in the case met the family at church and had been spending a lot of time with them ever since she was nine months pregnant

Los Angeles Times

3-month-old 'Baby Brandon' found safe after kidnapping from San Jose apartment

The harrowing search for a 3-month-old baby kidnapped from an apartment in San Jose, California, ended Tuesday with multiple suspects in custody and the baby safe, authorities said.

The Independent UK

Katie Kenyon: Police scour woods for mother feared kidnapped as family stuck in ‘real-life nightmare’

Katie Kenyon, 33, from Padiham in Burnley, has not been seen by her family since last Friday

The Independent UK

Search continues at beauty spot for woman believed to have been kidnapped

Katie Kenyon, 33, from Padiham in Burnley, has not been seen by her family since last Friday.

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Sherri Papini’s husband files for divorce after she pleads guilty to hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Keith Papini, who loyally stood by his wife’s side for six years as Sherri Papini maintained she had been kidnapped, filed for divorce Wednesday, two days after she pleaded guilty to charges that the whole thing was a hoax.

Daily Record

Dangerous fugitive who kidnapped his kids says he WON'T hand himself in

Andreas Garifalou’s sister Sandra contacted the Record following a police appeal earlier this week and said her brother intends to stay on the run.

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