Showing posts with label kidnappings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidnappings. Show all posts
Dec 11, 2009

Gunmen Hold Dozens at School in Philippines

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Image via Wikipedia By CARLOS H. CONDE MANILA — Gunmen took 75 people hostage at an elementary school in the southern Philippin...
Nov 2, 2009

The Snatchback - The Atlantic (November 2009)

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Image by mokwai via Flickr If your ex-spouse has run off and taken your children abroad, and the international legal system is failing to ...
Aug 15, 2009

Islamic Rebels Gain Strength in the Sahara

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Moving South From Algeria, al Qaeda-Affiliated Insurgents Find Support Among Locals in Mauritania, Mali and Niger By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV ...
Aug 10, 2009

Activist’s Detention Shakes China’s Rights Movement

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By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — China ’s nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on crusading lawyers, the k...
Aug 4, 2009

Billion-Dollar Mystery in Iraq

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posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 08/04/2009 A multi-billion dollar mystery is unfolding in Iraq, and it may reach t...
Aug 2, 2009

Nigerian Police Find Sect Women

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Police in northern Nigeria say they have found another group of women and children abducted by the Boko Haram sect,...
Jul 21, 2009

Venezuelan State That Chávez Family Rules Is Rife With Kidnapping

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By SIMON ROMERO BARINAS, Venezuela — Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for t...
Jul 19, 2009

Chechnya Is Gripped by Political Kidnappings

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By ANDREW E. KRAMER GROZNY, Russia — Oleg D. Masayev nervously fingered a cellphone as if working a string of prayer beads, his...