Lindsey Hilsum
Libyan PM kidnapping reveals state of country
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
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Last video of hostage Alan Henning before his kidnap
The men who travelled to Syria with Islamic State hostage Alan Henning praise his commitment to the humanitarian cause in a video tribute they filmed on Christmas Day 2013, a day before his kidnap.
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Islamic State fighters kidnap 500 women – reports
As the US announces it has launched two more airstrikes on Islamic State forces on Friday, there are reports that the religious extremists in Iraq have taken 500 women captive.
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‘Kidnapped’ US woman escapes from ‘decade of abuse’
A US woman is found alive, ten years after she was reported to have been abducted from her home. Police says she has suffered a decade-long ordeal of physical, mental and sexual abuse.
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Boko Haram video shows kidnapped schoolgirls
Around 100 kidnapped girls are seen for the first time in a video reported to have been released by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from Abuja.
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Nigeria kidnappings ‘act of pure evil’ – Cameron
David Cameron says the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria three weeks ago was an “act of pure evil”, as the Nigerian police offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to their rescue.
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Kidnappings ‘show what Nigeria faces’
Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks to Channel 4 News live from Abuja as her government tries to find and rescue more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram.
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Nigeria kidnappings: more girls abducted
Groups of armed men kidnapped eight more girls – most of them teenagers – and attacked a further school in Nigeria, adding to more than 200 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago.
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Nigeria schoolgirl kidnappings – what is going on?
Confusion and a lack of information have dominated the Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapping crisis something that one expert says plays into militant group Boko Haram’s plans.
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#BringBackOurGirls: protest over Nigerian kidnappings
A protest is held in London to demand the Nigerian government do more to rescue more than 200 school girls abducted by militants.
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‘World must wake up’ to Nigerian schoolgirl kidnap
Foreign Secretary William Hague offers help in the hunt for more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as ex-PM Gordon Brown, now UN education envoy, tells Channel 4 News the world must wake up.
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Terror grips northern Nigeria after ‘Boko Haram’ kidnappings
Last week’s kidnapping of 230 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria, which is being blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram, has plunged the region into chaos. Will the victims ever be seen again?
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Ohio kidnap victim: I was tied up like a fish
Ohio kidnap victim Michelle Knight says she was “tied up like a fish,” by Ariel Castro. Ms Knight, who was held captive by Castro for more than a decade, was talking on US TV show Dr Phil.
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Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro commits suicide in prison
Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the abduction, rape and torture of three Cleveland women, hangs himself with a bedsheet in his prison cell.
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Peru drugs accused ‘was kidnapped’
A solicitor for one of the British women arrested for smuggling cocaine in Peru says she was kidnapped and forced to carry the drugs by a gang of 14 armed men.
