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Nigeria military rescues 137 child hostages after school kidnapping
Nigeria’s military says it has rescued 137 of more than 280 children kidnapped from their school more than two weeks ago in Kaduna state. They were recovered in the early hours of Sunday in neighbouring Zamfara state. It comes days before a deadline to pay a ransom for their release, and days after 17 children…
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Netanyahu doesn’t have mandate to sacrifice hostages for war, says mother of kidnapped 12-year-old
We spoke to Hadas Kalderon, whose two children and ex-husband were abducted three weeks ago, and whose mother and niece died during the attacks.
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Holly Willoughby: Man charged over alleged kidnap and murder plot
A 36-year-old man has been remanded in custody over an alleged plot to kidnap and murder This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby.
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South Africa gripped by kidnapping crisis
There’s growing alarm at the number of kidnappings being reported in South Africa.
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Syria police officer trial shows Assad’s regime is ‘torture state’, says daughter of kidnapped man
We spoke to Wafa Mustafa, whose father Ali was dragged away by armed men from his home in Damascus more than eight years ago.
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Bring back our girls: Chibok girls kidnapping survivor speaks out seven years on
More than 100 of the children who were taken hostage in the town of Chibok have still never been found.
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Met police officer Wayne Couzens charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard
Metropolitan police constable Wayne Couzens has appeared in court charged with the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard – who went missing on the way home from a friend’s house in south London earlier this month.
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More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys rescued after kidnapping
More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys kidnapped last week are being reunited with their families – apparently safe and well.
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Suspect linked to kidnap and torture of Northern Irish businessman dies during raid
The main suspect connected to the kidnap and torture of a Northern Irish businessman has died.
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Model ‘vindicated’ after kidnapper jailed
A young British woman says she feels vindicated after a man was jailed for almost 17 years by an Italian court for kidnapping her. Chloe Ayling, who’s 20, said she’d been drugged and abducted when she went to Milan for a modelling job in July last year. She was accused of taking part in a…
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British police spent four days negotiating with Chloe Ayling’s alleged kidnappers
The lawyer of the British model who says she was kidnapped and held for six days in Italy has admitted police initially had doubts about her story. But he described suggestions that Chloe Ayling might have been in on the abduction as “evil”. This programme has learned that British police were notified of her disappearance…
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Tracking down Macedonia’s migrant kidnap gang
Hundreds of migrants at a time are being held by a kidnapping gang at a house in Macedonia. Reporter Ramita Navai tracked the house down.
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#BringBackOurGirls – one year on from kidnappings
Ceremonies are held to mark the anniversary of the kidnappings of 219 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria.
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Mexico says drug gangs killed kidnapped students
Cartel members apparently confess to the gruesome murder of 43 students who disappeared in September. But angry relatives reject the official version of events.
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Terror plot suspect had star role in school ‘kidnap’ film
A second suspect arrested as part of an investigation into an alleged Islamist terror plot was cast as the main character in a film in which he is kidnapped, Channel 4 News has found. Watch here:
