"Abductions are rare in themselves, especially adult abductions," Bosenko says.
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Runaway cases and abductions by family members don't get the same attention that abductions by non-family members or strangers do.
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More than 92 percent were endangered runaways, 4 percent were family abductions, 1 percent is lost or injured children — and only 1 percent is nonfamily abductions.
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"The abductions of women have historically been a part of cattle raiding in South Sudan," wrote Lizzie Lacey, in a study analyzing the abductions of women in South Sudan.
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Court records show the elder Taylor and his brother, Randall Keith Taylor, have also been arrested in previous abductions or attempted abductions, though the charges were later dropped in both cases.
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State news media have made no mention of the abductions.
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Abductions by Chinese agents in Hong Kong would be illegal.
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And is that where your interest in abductions came from?
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Frequent abductions The US State Department had warned against travel to Kaduna and seven other states in north Nigeria due to frequent incidents of robberies and abductions along the Kaduna - Abuja highway last year.
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And yet three years after the first attacks, the abductions persist.
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There are the abductions and killings, which grab our horrified attention.
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According to the FBI, such "stranger abductions" are considered extremely rare.
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There is no proven involvement of the government in their abductions.
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There are reports of unexplained bombings, abductions and detentions without trial.
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All but a handful of the killings and abductions remain unsolved.
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Trump confirmed that he brought up North Korea&aposs abductions with Kim.
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Abductions of family members unwound the rebel leadership in Chechnya, for example.
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The decision made exceptions for emergencies like bomb threats and child abductions.
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It was thanks to him that I got so deeply into abductions.
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The Treasury said the Lord's Resistance Army was responsible for at least 329 such abductions in a one-year period, July 2014 to July 2015, not 239 abductions in a two-year period, July 2014 to July 2016.
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Accounts of alien abductions outnumber proven instances of electoral fraud in North Carolina.
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The group's fighters have since then waged a campaign of killings and abductions.
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Some smugglers, researchers said, charge $400 to $500 to "insure" migrants against abductions.
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"I'm not living out on the streets screaming about alien abductions," she wrote.
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Some famous abductions have ended in tragedy when the abductors killed their victim.
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The Lindbergh kidnapping is one of the most famous abductions of all time.
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They found themselves in a war zone, surrounded by bombings, assassinations and abductions.
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In truth, a few abductions were the last thing on the human minds.
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The Philippines is also facing a similar false reports of white van abductions.
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But Pashteen said he would continue to be vocal against the continuing abductions.
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Nicolas Dumont could not be more casual as we chat about alien abductions.
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Amnesty said there had been two murders and three abductions since New Year's Eve.
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Cricket, it seems, has a history of working with the FBI to solve abductions.
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The abductions violate international law and may amount to war crimes, the report said.
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Several Republican presidential candidates have criticized the move, saying it will encourage American abductions.
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The abductions stirred an outcry and spurred a global campaign under the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
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During his trial, he said he knew nothing of illegal abductions and forced disappearances.
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For the butt it means movements like glute bridges, frog pumps, hip abductions (leaning forward, leaning back, sitting straight), banded monster walks, RKC planks, and extended range side lying hip abductions, all of which made an appearance in the Strong By Bret program.
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In Jakarta, the Indonesian foreign ministry said it had no information yet on the abductions.
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The FBI data does not record how many reported abductions are confirmed as actual kidnappings.
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Alien abductions no longer have the same power to inspire nightmares that they once did.
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A session called "Alien Encounters" encouraged attendees to share their experiences, including with alien abductions.
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A lawyer who filmed the abductions and his driver were also kidnapped and then killed.
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The violent insurgency has killed thousands and group abductions of schoolgirls have caused international outrage.
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The NCMEC no longer distinguishes between runaways and abductions on their posters of missing children.
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Protesters have accused the Pakistani military of human rights violations, mass killings and extrajudicial abductions.
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Maria's disappearance made headlines nationwide in the 19463s, when reports of child abductions were rare.
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The Taliban, who have been active in Farah, have not claimed responsibility for the abductions.
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One of them, Sonia, has been experiencing these kinds of abductions since she was little.
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The NCMEC says that abductions by strangers are the rarest type of cases of missing children.
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The report said Islamic State generated up to $30 million in 2016 through kidnapping and abductions.
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These aren't idle precautions -- there have been two abductions of Taesung residents by North Korean soldiers.
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That is a little embarrassing to admit, with its connotations of Scooby-Doo and alien abductions.
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The investigators documented rapes, sexual slavery and abductions, including of children, said panel member Radhika Coomeraswamy.
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Flickering in and out of consciousness, I had visions of alien abductions, Twin Peaks, and human levitation.
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And of the 650,000 cases opened last year, about 2.5% involved suspected abductions — about 45 a day.
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Activists warn, however, that more needs to be done on the issue of abductions and forced conversions.
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Women of that faith have been vulnerable to forced conversions and abductions, with widows left especially unprotected.
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They're also just a lot of fun, with songs about alien abductions and wild, possibly dangerous hippies.
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The image was used to warn parents about kidnappings and abductions of children in his native Karachi.
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The release states that during the abductions, the attackers accused the victims of organizing Friday's planned demonstrations.
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Over a third of abductions from America to Brazil, for example, drag on for at least 18 months.
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A renewed push is under way to cut the number of child abductions, and to resolve cases quickly.
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But the cops insisted that the they were being extra cautious due to child abductions in the area.
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What followed was a spree of abductions, home invasions and robberies across Alabama, Georgia and Florida, officials said.
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Since then it has recorded 25 murders, 15 disappearances and 122 other crimes, including attempted abductions and exhumations.
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A former general, he has been accused of ordering abductions and torture, among other abuses (he denies responsibility).
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Kidnappings were rare in Ghana until a spate of abductions, most of them for ransom, late last year.
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Fighting in Deir Ezzor intensified recently, including suicide bombings, mass abductions and arbitrary killings, rights activists have said.
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The most recent incidents of enforced disappearances are abductions of Baloch women and children from Quetta and Karachi.
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Its mass abductions and attacks on soft targets, including schools, mosques and churches, have prompted stark international condemnation.
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The case went unsolved for three decades and inspired a national movement to raise awareness about child abductions.
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Kidnappings were rare in Ghana until a spate of abductions late last year, most of them for ransom.
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The experts were not allowed to interview military officials who were in the area when the abductions occurred.
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After her uncle's ordeal, Ms. Briggs said, she wanted instead to learn everything about Colombia's scourge of abductions.
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Summary executions, retaliatory abductions, and torture must end immediately so that psychologists and counselors can do their jobs.
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The abductions have sparked an outcry from rights groups over the toll the fighting is taking on civilians.
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They also reconfirmed the importance of early resolution of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens.
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Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised the abductions issue privately with Chinese officials when he visited Beijing recently.
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But the case was never solved — a statistical anomaly, as the vast majority of infant hospital abductions are closed.
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Whether she's acting, raising her kids, or sharing her theories about alien abductions, Megan Fox always keeps it classy.
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Amnesty International, an NGO, claims that Aidar was involved in several human-rights violations, including abductions and unlawful detentions.
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He was defeated in an election last year by Muhammadu Buhari who ordered a new investigation into the abductions.
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It's also really weird: there's a robot who can talk to dolphins, and lots of talk of alien abductions.
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She said investigators, including a team specializing in child abductions, have made no arrests and have identified no suspects.
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Nick Mangwana, secretary at the Information Ministry, said in a statement that three abductions had been reported to police.
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Speaking to local media, Zimbabwe's military spokesman denied the military's involvement and allegations of attempted abductions of opposition leaders.
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A number of governments have expressed concern about the disappearances, which some diplomats fear were abductions by Chinese agents.
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Many Nigerians questioned the wisdom of paying ransom to militants who may view abductions as a reliable revenue source.
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Some experts say it might explain historical accounts of witchcraft, as well as modern-day reports of alien abductions.
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And that figure does not take into account non-press abductions — of businessmen, locals, engineers working for oil companies.
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North Korea has acknowledged only some abductions, releasing five people in 2002 and saying the rest died long ago.
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The report also documented alleged abuses by Iraqi government security forces and associated forces, including unlawful killings and abductions.
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At any time of year, there are concerns around abductions and in urban areas, being exposed to air pollution.
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While some activists are extradited through legal channels, there have also been reports of extrajudicial abductions, such as Nhat's.
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Even the battle scenes and the history paintings had images of rapes and abductions in the middle of them.
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Nigerian police launched a special anti-kidnapping squad to identify and expose the criminal gangs but the abductions have continued.
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Government officials in Tripoli say security in the capital has improved over the past two years, though abductions remain common.
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ISIS has been accused of committing atrocities such as systematic rapes, killings and abductions, and using Syrians as human shields.
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But Sunnis in areas freed from Islamic State control say the Shi'ite militias have carried out looting, abductions and murder.
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Kidnappings for ransom by criminal gangs are common in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, but so are politically motivated abductions.
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Someone once told me that half the internet is devoted to conspiracy theories to do with alien abductions and UFOs.
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Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang accused the rebels of "burning civilians, maiming women and child abductions and setting ablaze properties".
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Plus, details of Huggins's abductions mirror those described by other people Kripal has interviewed who believe they've had supernatural experiences.
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Searches for the missing plane turned up nothing for more than 50 years, sparking countless conspiracy theories, including alien abductions.
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Conspiracy theories bloomed, from JFK's assassination, to the Clintons' role in Vince Foster's death, to — yes — aliens and alien abductions.
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At the same time, ARSA committed "serious human rights abuses...including unlawful killings and abductions," the human rights group said.
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Parents were afraid to tell them about their sons' abductions as they didn't want to arrested for disrupting state security.
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Ties are also strained as the result of Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese citizens to train them as spies decades ago.
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The statement came as Nigeria prepares to make the four-year anniversary of the Chibok abductions on April 14, 2014.
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In the absence of hard evidence of an alien encounter, seeking alternative explanations for reports of ET abductions makes sense.
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Advocacy groups have recorded hundreds of violent attacks, abductions and sexual assaults against migrants returned to Mexico under the program.
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While piracy has decreased worldwide, West Africa's Gulf of Guinea is a high-risk area for abductions and armed robbery.
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While piracy has decreased worldwide, West Africa's Gulf of Guinea is a high-risk area for abductions and armed robbery.
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Kadyrov, a former rebel who switched his loyalties to Moscow, faces accusations of gross human rights violations, including abductions and killings.
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The pin commemorates their abductions, and Japan has argued for their release to be part of the ongoing negotiations with Pyongyang.
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John McCain of Arizona introduced federal legislation to include tribal lands in the AMBER Alert program that broadcasts information about abductions.
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As the Nigerian government struggled to control the situation, the abductions have sparked international outcry — and the social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls.
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The thick report, almost 40 pages, amounted to a painfully detailed account of human suffering: unlawful killings, abductions, bombings, mass graves.
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And Hiller is regularly associated with a whole host of supernatural phenomena: UFO abductions and encounters, automatism, levitation, near-death experiences.
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After the apparent abductions, remaining members of the mosque committee resigned en masse, and a new interim committee took their place.
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The UN Security Council says he is implicated in the torture, abductions, rape and mass killings by men under his command.
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In response, Abe reiterated his desire to meet directly with Kim, with missiles and abductions at the top of his agenda.
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An organized crime gang is believed to be behind the abductions, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi told reporters in Baghdad.
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Censorship, arrests, assassinations, abductions, the banning of the Crimean Tatars' representative body — the Mejlis — all threaten another tragedy and ethnic cleansing.
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Tough but flawed laws were inspired by rare, horrific child-abductions—rather than the abuse that commonly takes place within families.
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Ms. Derian outraged Argentina's military leaders when she brushed aside their denials of involvement in the abductions and murders of civilians.
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AMBER alerts are an emergency response system that announces details about child abductions, so citizens can aid in recovery or rescue.
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Already, since its defeat in Mosul, ISIS has set up checkpoints and carried out abductions and assassinations in several Iraqi provinces.
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Abe's insistence that the abductions be included in any North Korean talks may be a source of friction with South Korea.
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As the experts interviewed witnesses and analyzed forensic evidence, they uncovered information about abductions of the students carried out on Sept.
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He identified the officers in charge and indicated that the abductions were motivated by the victims' religious activities, Ms. Norhayati said.
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Abductions and political cover Abe has also been pressing Trump to remember the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.
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Its programming is scattershot: "Chasing U.F.O.s," a 2012 series on paranormal claims that included tales of alien abductions, was widely derided.
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But that's not the strangest part about "The OA," a brooding Netflix series that involves abductions, brain experiments and a shooting.
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As a boy, I was obsessed with supernatural mysteries all kinds — U.F.O.s, alien abductions, ghosts, people with psychic powers, mysterious animals.
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More than 600 were taken from America in 2015; about 500 abductions to America are reported to the country's authorities each year.
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ISIS has been accused of committing atrocities such as systematic rapes, killings and abductions and using the Syrian people as human shields.
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The group can carry out abductions beyond its territory and has consistently generated tens of millions from this activity, the center said.
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One of Scully's abductions led to cancer, a stolen ova and a coma; that was a really bad time to be Scully.
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But the last few days have seen unprecedented horror, including suicide bombings, mass abductions and arbitrary killings, according to human rights activists.
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International human rights groups have accused Bangladeshi security forces of carrying out extra-judicial killings, abductions and detentions of suspects without charge.
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Both Suga and Abe stressed the issue of abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea as the "most important" issue to Tokyo.
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Yokota said he was hopeful Abe would press Trump to bring up the abductions issue, as he has done in the past.
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Do you agree with her father that "parents today are so concerned about child abductions and other dangers that they become overprotective"?
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They say the recent abductions and alleged torture of social media bloggers and writers were part of a campaign to silence dissent.
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Pyongyang admitted to some of the abductions in the early 20003s, but Tokyo has accused North Korea of not being completely transparent.
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Stories of abductions, tortures and murders by HTS members or criminal gangs taking advantage of the security situation are all too common.
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He had spent a large part of his career striving to make the study of UFOs and alien abductions a scientific endeavor.
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No one claimed responsibility for the abductions, which took place near a Saudi border area dominated by Shi'ite militias close to Iran.
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LeBaron has deep roots in Mexico, including a dark past that involves a cult-like murder spree, drug cartel abductions, and polygamy.
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The alerts are most commonly used to send Amber Alerts about child abductions, but they are also sent to warn of disasters.
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Mr. Abiy, who is expected to run in the general elections in August, has faced criticism for his handling of the abductions.
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Heng Abu Sayyaf militants are thriving in the Philippines, and their heightened campaign of high-profile abductions has attracted growing international attention.
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No one has taken responsibility for the mass abductions, but government forces and separatists groups have blamed each other for the incident.
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If she didn't, she should swear under oath that the C.I.A. under her command will never again carry out abductions like mine.
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The L.R.A. is notorious for its use of child soldiers but has also carried out massacres, sexual violence, mutilations, pillage and abductions.
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The crew spent several days in the small village in Borno State speaking to families of those affected by Boko Haram abductions.
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But they set the tone for this year's spate of attempted assassinations or failed abductions -- and, possibly, a new era of impunity.
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Police have arrested about 300 Rohingya in cases involving killings, robberies and abductions in the camps since the August influx, Tutul said.
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Of all nonfamily abductions, a 2002 US Justice Department study found, about 1 in 20053 were "stereotypical kidnappings," like the one involving Payne.
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Click here to sign Amnesty International's petition urging the Russian and Chechen authorities to investigate these abductions and bring those responsible to justice.
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Similar scenarios have since repeated themselves in an escalating cycle of street violence, drive by shootings, abductions, arson attacks, bombings and random sniping.
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" These include attacks on innocents, rape, arbitrary detentions and abductions, all of which "may amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
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Though the Nigerian military has now regained much of the territory that was held by Boko Haram in its northeastern heartland, abductions continue.
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The spate of disappearances and attempted abductions comes at a time of growing concern over all kinds of violence against women in Jalisco.
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But that account never really explained the motive for the violent abductions, which left six people dead and 40 wounded at the scene.
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"My Struggle" opens with Duchovny offering a monologue that recounts the basics of The X-Files' original story — kidnapped sister, alien abductions, etc.
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The latest abductions come as the U.S.-led coalition and the Russian-backed Syrian regime has been retaking territory from ISIS in Syria.
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While the Israeli government is trying to be more transparent about the disappearances, to this day, it denies that there were systematic abductions.
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Those include mental health problems, family trauma, severe weather, traffic accidents on or near school grounds and child abductions due to custody disputes.
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In the days before the pair arrived, social media brimmed with warnings about child abductions and admonitions to be on the lookout for strangers.
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In the northeast, security forces continue to battle the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which still carries out deadly suicide bombings and mass abductions.
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Unlike the West African outbreak, bursts of violence, burning of Ebola treatment centers abductions of of health workers have plagued the current response effort.
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The abductions of Hong Kong-based booksellers in 2015 who later showed up across the border in Chinese custody also touched a raw nerve.
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Getty announced to the press that he wouldn't hand over a penny in exchange for his scion, because that would only prompt further abductions.
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But more than 460,000 children — runaways, abductions, lost or injured kids — go missing every year in the U.S., plus many more around the world.
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The demonstration followed a march by 100 activists to China's liaison office on Friday to protest against what they called the "cross-border abductions".
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An organized crime gang was believed to be behind the abductions, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi told reporters in Baghdad on January 21.
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A number of governments have expressed concern regarding the disappearances, which some diplomats fear were abductions by Chinese agents in Hong Kong and Thailand.
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As we learned in the premiere, the alien abductions were staged and men added those alien double helixes to random citizen's systems, including Scully's.
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Mnangagwa's government said while police were investigating the abductions, it believed a "third force" comprising supporters of former leader Robert Mugabe were behind them.
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A spokesman for the Syrian Defense Forces, Sherfan Darwish, told The Associated Press that the abductions were in retaliation for the offensive on Manbij.
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But it's been speculated that, given how long the victims were held captive, more than one perpetrator was involved in the abductions and killings.
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It started in the late 210s and early 21s, when several child abductions and murders set off a panicked explosion of sex offender laws.
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While journalists have rarely been jailed in Pakistan, several instances of abductions of reporters have created a culture of self-censorship, journalists interviewed said.
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Abe's government has floated the idea of a meeting with Kim to discuss abductions and other issues but seems to have made little progress.
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It was one of many similar attempted abductions of young women in recent weeks across Guadalajara, the capital of the western state of Jalisco.
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In March, Roma were attacked on the streets of Paris after false rumors spread on social media and messaging apps about attempted child abductions.
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LRA Crisis Tracker said the rebel group has been responsible for attacks and abductions in eastern Congo too, but those had slowed since August.
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Out-of-body experiences are related to these illusions, and they are probably key both to religious experience and to tales of alien abductions.
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As the years dragged on without an arrest, the Patz family worked with parents of other missing children to raise awareness about child abductions.
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The kidnapping of the hunters, in December 2015, came around the time of two other abductions involving citizens of Turkey and the United States.
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Mr. Rami's unit of Abu Sayyaf is believed to have played a direct role in the abductions and killings of foreigners, the military said.
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After the bookseller abductions sparked an outcry, Hong Kong officials revealed in May 21 they were in discussions with Beijing over formal extradition procedures.
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After the bookseller abductions sparked an outcry, Hong Kong officials revealed in May 33 they were in discussions with Beijing over formal extradition procedures.
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After 2007, as organized crime fragmented and groups faced more competition from rival organizations, abductions increased by almost 200 percent, according to SNSP data.
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He said parents in the district had been living in fear for the last two years as instances of child abuse and abductions rose.
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And let's not forget that although abductions may not have risen, the amount of traffic has, and freedom and risks need to be appropriate.
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COMING UP TODAY • Preview an episode of "Black Rose," a television show about abductions of children in Brownsville, at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn.
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In 2011 and 2012 there were a series of abductions by al Shabaab, a group linked to al Qaeda, closer to the border with Somalia.
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Ghana, a relatively peaceful nation, has recorded a spate of abductions in recent months, prompting President Nana Akufo-Addo to declare a crackdown on kidnapping.
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Patty said she will continue her work to find missing kids and prevent abductions, but her approach to that mission has changed since Heinrich's confession.
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He reckons that the "alien abductions" he's spent his life investigating were actually undertaken by men posing as aliens and testing alien DNA on humans.
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Federal agents used the DNA evidence to obtain a July search warrant for Heinrich's house in an effort to find evidence in the two abductions.
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The abductions of a Hong Kong-based bookseller in 2015 who later showed up across the border in Chinese custody also touched a raw nerve.
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The test comes after a series of violent mob lynchings in India were instigated by false messages about child abductions that were sent through WhatsApp.
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In India, rumors of child abductions and child traffickers disseminated through the encrypted messaging app have been linked to roughly a dozen deaths since May.
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Founded in 1991, the museum showcases history from the Roswell incident alongside other 'evidence' of the existence of UFOs, crop circles, alien abductions and more.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has done exactly this with respect to the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Axon CEO Rick Smith has said in the past that real-time recognition might be useful for extreme cases like child abductions or terrorist manhunts.
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In this context, we once again call upon North Korea to respect the human rights of its people and resolve the abductions issue immediately. 17.
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Investigating a series of abductions, she strikes back at the Korean patriarchy while also romancing a standard pair of doe-eyed K-drama pretty boys.
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Their cases have ignited protests from Hong Kong residents who say they believe that they were the victims of secretive abductions orchestrated by the mainland authorities.
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Stories about abductions are always terrifying, but in Netflix's new documentary, Abducted In Plain Sight, 12 (and then 14) year-old Jan Broberg is abducted twice.
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The 20 case files will be handled by the federal prosecutors&apos office on forced disappearances, a term used to refer to abductions by security forces.
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Instead, the information minister, Lai Mohammed, claimed the abductions were simply a mistake made by Boko Haram, with whom the government was conducting back-channel talks.
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In the early '90s, supermarket tabloids like Weekly World News and airport paperbacks like Whitley Strieber's "Communion" were filled with tales of U.F.O.s and alien abductions.
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The government has consistently denied any involvement by state forces in killings or abductions and said it actively works to arrest criminal gangs behind such actions.
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The government, which formed a judicial inquiry into the killings and abductions, has denied this saying it cannot interfere in work of the police and courts.
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With a dearth of young women in the village, she entered a world where abductions, forced marriages and enslavement were acceptable methods of propagating family trees.
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It cited testimonies of mass abductions by Islamic State, as well as killings, the use of human shields, and deliberate targeting of civilians and their homes.
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The U.N. report also called on Iraqi authorities to investigate crimes allegedly committed by Iraqi-backed forces during the operation, including mass abductions and unlawful killings.
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The families of the missing men on Wednesday urged the government to set up an impartial and independent taskforce to look into the abductions, media said.
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They are also a response to reports that the organization has sharply escalated its abductions and plundering in Central African Republic this year compared with 2015.
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Abductions of foreigners — with ransoms paid by Western countries — are AQIM's most lucrative source of funding, the center noted, with illegal drug trade becoming increasingly important.
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The government's case, however, is undercut by a series of high-profile abductions of people in Hong Kong in recent years, presumably by mainland security agents.
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There were summary executions of villagers, abductions and sexual violence, political assassinations, raids on health clinics, attacks on civilian buses, and even reports of mass graves.
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The menacing drumbeat of child abductions, mostly of young African-American boys, shook a city that was emerging at the time as a progressive black mecca.
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Trump had informed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he would urge North Korea to promptly resolve its abductions of Japanese citizens, the White House said.
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The center has provided therapy to about 1,000 victims of police abuse, its founders say, and cataloged instances of police torture, unlawful killings and illegal abductions.
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They include unsolved abductions of religious figures, strange murders — a Mongolian woman by two of Mr. Najib's bodyguards — and up to 1,16803 wrongful deaths in custody.
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In January, Muthanna was run out of eastern Dara'a after rebels accused it of engineering a wave of assassinations and abductions in the rebel-held south.
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His musings about Japan's reaction to the abductions, "Japan's 9/11," and the sudden realization "that the world was more dangerous than it had thought" are cogent.
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She had been 18 at the time and, despite hearing about a recent string of abductions and killings, hadn't been concerned with being out alone in public.
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Video The abductions began in the 1970s and 1980s, with Tokyo officially listing 17 citizens as victims of North Korean abduction, the South China Morning Post reported.
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WhatsApp already labels forwarded messages and instituted forwarding limits after viral rumors of child abductions and child traffickers in India were linked to nearly a dozen deaths.
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The protagonist teams up with her ex-husband's brother to plan a kidnapping and to attempt to break the sequence of abductions by targeting the scheme's originators.
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The government has also offered cash rewards for information about the abductions and killings, which have reached at least 150 since 2014 according to the United Nations.
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Opposition sources in the rural eastern suburbs of Damascus said militants in Dumeir fired at civilians protesting against their presence in the town and at the abductions.
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The report, issued last week by Zeid's office, referred to international abductions as a "well-documented practice" by the North, targeting nationals of South Korea and Japan.
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Reports of abductions, torture and brutality by Egypt's security forces have surged in recent months, prompting debates in several Western countries about how to deal with Egypt.
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The last several abductions were reminiscent of that of more than 370 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, which set off pervasive fear and protests around the world.
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The mass abductions and rapes of ethnic Chinese in 1998 remain unresolved, though victims' relatives still gather weekly in front of the presidential palace to demand justice.
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In fact, an average of some 60 security incidents -- armed clashes, roadside bombs, targeted killings, abductions, suicide attacks, and the like -- are reported each day in Afghanistan.
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The interior ministry named the two as Lee Zing Yang, 24, and Meng Li Si, 26, and said their violation of visa rules had contributed to their abductions.
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There have, however, been a number of recent high-profile abductions in Iraq of other foreigners, believed to have been carried out by Shiite militias for political reasons.
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In the case of Mr. Gui, a transfer would violate Thailand's sovereignty and its criminal law, which prohibits abductions, if Thailand did not approve his return to China.
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The judge said the killings and abductions of albinos since 2014 had tainted the international image of Malawi, and had reduced the country to "a state of terror".
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An AMBER alert is a federal emergency response system, which disseminates announcements about child abductions to the general public, so they can potentially aid in recovery or rescue.
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Scammers have also been know to fake arrests or abductions of family members, or to try to convince victims that money was needed in legal disputes involving relatives.
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Though no one has claimed responsibility for the abductions, authorities did not rule out the involvement of secessionists fighters, who are waging war in Cameroon's English-speaking provinces.
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And worrying about toy hacks can deflect from the reality that abductions by strangers are rare; in three-fourth's of cases, family members or acquaintances are to blame.
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The abductions come a day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered a month-long ceasefire with the Taliban beginning Monday, if the militant group agrees to honor it.
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It has been reported that Japan is contemplating providing an aid package to North Korea to bring closure on the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.
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They report more than a score of new charges of treason, abductions and cases of torture of opposition campaigners, mainly belonging to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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But relatives of dead or missing Tamils have accused him of war crimes, including extra-judicial killings and abductions, in lawsuits filed against him in the United States.
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A report from the Inter-Parliamentary Union found that 44.4 percent of female elected representatives have been threatened in office, including threats of death, rape, beatings, or abductions.
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New York-based Human Rights Watch says Burundi's government does not tolerate criticism, and security services carry out summary executions, rapes, abductions and intimidation of suspected political opponents.
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She persuaded Mark Leonard, a geopolitical analyst and writer who was the organization's 24-year-old director at the time, to support a detailed project on overseas abductions.
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Silva had been investigating alleged abductions, torture, killings and enforced disappearances of journalists and activists while Rajapaksa was defense chief under the presidency of his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Our team of Mideast correspondents looks at how the Syrian government has been able to operate with impunity through years of torture, abductions, siege warfare and indiscriminate bombing.
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Baghdad has been plagued by kidnappings since the US invasion in 2003, and abductions are sometimes committed by criminal gangs that pose as security force members or militiamen.
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Broberg's captor, Robert Berchtold, was a close family friend, and used that relationship to get away with multiple abductions of Broberg, as well as alleged molestation, rape, and brainwashing.
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Mr. Leung and other officials have said there is not enough known to point a finger at anyone who may have been involved in what may have been abductions.
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WhatsApp messages on organ thieves or child abductions are just the tip of the iceberg though - fake reports can range from incorrect medical advice to news about top jobs.
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Abe has pushed the topic of Japanese abductions with the US President before, both Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have previously promised to address the issue.
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Robyn Gritz was an FBI supervisory special agent for more than 16 years, specializing in counterterrorism, overseas abductions and crime, strategic planning/execution/communications, and weapons of mass destruction.
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the nation has struggled with a rise in violence from jihadists, including abductions and killings, in the past several months.
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Nigerian authorities often deny or downplay such incidents, including the Chibok girl kidnapping and more recent abductions, as well as the scale of Boko Haram attacks in the northeast.
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Despite its small size, it has rebuffed countless military offensives and remains a serious threat, often using abductions to raise funds and killing hostages when ransoms are not paid.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a statement made by the United States Treasury on March 8, 2016 about civilian abductions in the Central African Republic.
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Read: "The Chain," Adrian McKinty's existential thriller, imagines a crime syndicate operating a string of abductions like a chain letter, in which victims are themselves pushed to do evil.
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"This has put the security of citizens at the highest level of vulnerability," ZHOCD said in a statement, adding that Mnangagwa should publicly condemn abductions and torture of civilians.
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Susan Hiller, a leading British conceptual artist whose video, audio and photographic installations ingeniously explored extinct languages, alien abductions, girls with psychic powers and the Holocaust, died on Jan.
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That excludes political ones, but critics fear the legislation would essentially legalize the sort of abductions to the mainland that have taken place in Hong Kong in recent years.
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Still, the revenge plot, with its abductions and threats of rape, echoes "Titus Andronicus" and the use of human mincemeat as the symbol of ultimate inhumanity smacks of homage.
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On June 2, 1947, a US Air Force surveillance balloon (or was it???) crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico, unleashing a new era of alien sightings, abductions, and government secrecy.
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Abductions and killings of Somali aid workers are common in the Horn of Africa country, but targeting foreign workers has become less frequent in recent years as security has improved.
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The abductions bore "uncanny similarities" and both men were targeted by religious authorities and police over allegations that "they were involved in matters against Islam in Malaysia," the panel said.
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The abductions of several booksellers in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory with relative freedom, is another troubling example of how authorities are reacting harshly to critics outside the mainland.
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Pompeo, speaking to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, pledged to raise the matter of the abductions of Japanese citizens when he travels to Pyongyang on Sunday, Reuters reported.
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It is one of many cases that the new government is being called on to re-examine, including similar abductions, the deaths of prisoners in custody and politically charged murders.
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There were no alien abductions — just men taking UFOs for test drives and armed with the power to implant fake memories into abductees to make them think aliens were involved.
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That move is especially controversial in the wake of two alleged abductions by Chinese agents of bookseller Lee Bo, a British citizen, and Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua, from Hong Kong.
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Their last few years in government were marked by frequent abductions of opponents, who were often bundled away into vans by men in civilian clothing, never to be seen again.
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The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, as the campaign is known, has challenged the authorities over abuses, and accused the Pakistani military, especially, of human rights violations, mass killings and extrajudicial abductions.
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It was said at the time that he had been taken by Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a prominent Shiite militia controlled by Iran that had been behind other abductions of Americans.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraq's defense minister said on Thursday the three Americans who went missing in Baghdad last week had been seized by an "organized gang" that carries out abductions for "blackmail".
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Abe recently said he was ready to meet Kim without conditions, a shift from his long-held position of insisting on progress on the abductions before a summit could take place.
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Deaths and injuries among teachers and other education workers were down, to 13 in 2015 from 37 the year before, but abductions spiked to 49 from 14 in the same period.
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Tad O'Malley, who returned Monday after six weeks off-air to inform the world that the apocalypse has begun, was right that a conspiracy of men was behind the alien abductions.
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The Muktadir group has the fastest speedboats in the area and often commits abductions and then hands over the victims to the Abu Sayyaf, which handles ransom negotiations, Mr. Singer said.
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But the spike in abductions and killings, widely blamed on the Taliban, comes a few months after the NATO-led international mission encouraged Afghan security forces to close many smaller checkpoints.
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The regime is known for overseas abductions in Japan and South Korea, for denying repatriation to detained foreigners, and for the export of its own citizens for use as slave labor.
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Abductions and murders occur regularly there, and my guesthouse offered not a mint on the pillow, but a bulletproof vest; at night, sleep was interrupted by nearby fighting among unknown gunmen.
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The abductions are only a fraction of the Islamic State attacks now taking place in Iraq, where every day brings one or more reports of a checkpoint shooting, skirmish or kidnapping.
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But that strain of pan-Africanism neglects Mr. Mugabe's excesses, the killings of Ndebele people, rigging of the 2002 and 2008 elections, forcible clearance of slums, political abductions and widespread corruption.
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Boko Haram's infamous abductions of 276 girls from the Chibok school in 2014 triggered global outrage and reignited the fight against the Islamist group, which had pledged its alliance to ISIS.
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Mr. Wong has said the piece is a commentary on recent crackdowns on free expression in Hong Kong, including the apparent abductions of several prominent booksellers to the mainland in 2015.
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"But the proverbial Arab Street has been forcibly disappeared," he added, referring to a rash of illegal abductions of government critics since the military brought Mr. Sisi to power in 2013.
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Dolours Price and many like her believed that, after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, she had been robbed of any moral justification for the bombings and abductions.
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Abe has made the abductions a keystone of his political career, and has pledged to work until all 13 of the people North Korea admitted to abducting have returned to Japan.
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How something persists—even through the chemical attacks, the abductions, mass rapes and beatings, the bombings, torture, murders, through crucifixions, the fire of hell cannons, the disappearances, and the public executions.
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Since 2009, the militant Islamist group has instilled terror in Africa's most populous country through abductions, bombings, and beheadings in attempt to create an Islamic state in its north-east region.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari described the mass abductions as a "national disaster," and has deployed fighter jets, surveillance planes, and helicopters in its hunt for the missing girls in the country's northeast.
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Other abductions Since the 1970s, North Korean agents have abducted at least 17, and possibly more than 100, Japanese citizens, snatching them off streets and beaches and smuggling them to North Korea.
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The president had insisted for nearly two years that the group had been defeated, and the abductions led to new questions about the government's security strategy and its response to the kidnappings.
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That affidavit sought to recover a wide range of possessions from Worley's property, including "documents in reference to prior criminal acts, evidence of prior abductions, instruments of sexual deviation, journals" and more.
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The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Kony's arrest in 2005, accusing his organization of carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murders, abductions, sexual enslavement, mutilations and lootings.
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Why it matters: The applications of Singh's software — painting a profile of a person's voice through traits barely detectable to humans — are wide, including police situations such as abductions, she told Axios.
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Rights groups have blamed the Rajapaksa government for several abductions, assaults and killings of high-profile journalists or editors who were critical of his government and the war against the Tamil Tigers.
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"We'll work together and see if we can do something, now the spotlight is on," Trump later told a joint news conference with Abe, calling the abductions a "very, very sad thing".
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The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, a coalition of rights groups, said it suspected state security agents were behind the abductions and beatings of the rights activists accused of planning the protests.
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Abe said he would ask Trump to bring up the issue of past North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, during the U.S. president's expected summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Over the past 23 months, Islamic State fighters have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes, according to 14 migrants who witnessed the abductions and have since escaped to Europe.
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The 1980s brought helicopter parenting, a movement to keep children safe from physical harm, spurred by high-profile child assaults and abductions (despite the fact that they were, and are, exceedingly rare).
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Abe told Suh that Japan wanted any denuclearization talks with North Korea to also address a dispute over the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A Treasury statement on March 8, 20143, blamed Mr. Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army for at least 329 civilian abductions in the Central African Republic between July 2014 and July 2015.
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The health ministry said that residents of Beni took to the streets on Sunday to protest the killings and abductions, destroying several administrative buildings and forcing Ebola response to be temporarily halted.
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Cuauhtemoc, a rural hub that marks the entrance to the imposing Sierra Tarahumara mountains, has only 170,000 people, but is nicknamed "the capital of the disappeared" for its relatively high rate of abductions.
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German officials say the account of the kidnapping - which media have compared to Soviet abductions before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 - is plausible, although they cannot independently verify the circumstances.
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Convinced that a more coordinated response to child abductions could save lives, media broadcasters and Dallas-Fort Worth police devised a rapid warning system for, naming it "AMBER Alert" after the little girl.
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"We don't want to see this become a new Somalia," Indonesian chief security minister Luhut Pandjaitan told reporters, referring to the southern Philippine waters of the Sulu Sea, where the abductions took place.
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That affidavit sought to recover a wide range of possessions from Worley's property, including alleged "documents in reference to prior criminal acts, evidence of prior abductions, instruments of sexual deviation, journals" and more.
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The island nation saw abductions and killings of high-profile journalists and rights defenders during the final months of the war that ended with the defeat of Tamil Tiger separatists in May 2009.
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School safety experts say the most important emergencies for schools to prepare for are those that are more regular occurrences: traffic accidents, weather disasters, thefts, assaults and child abductions linked to custody battles.
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This statement comes as Nigeria marks the four-year anniversary of the abductions in which militants seized 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok town in Borno state, sparking a global outrage.
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But most women who broke away from Boko Haram keep their abductions secret, knowing they would be stigmatized as terrorist sympathizers even though they were held against their wills and defied the militants.
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The March abductions of the three aid workers occurred when the militants attacked a military outpost in Rann, in Borno State, that is sheltering at least 80,000 Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram's insurgency.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Car bombs, grenade attacks, assassinations and abductions by Shabab insurgents shatter the fragile veneer of calm in Somalia with such regularity that barely a week goes by without a deadly assault.
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But other uses were consistent with the Islamic State's well-documented disregard for international law and humanitarian concerns evident in their abductions, public executions, production of snuff films and bombings of public spaces.
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For months, her disappearance had remained the only open case among more than 5003 abductions that the F.B.I. had investigated since kidnapping was made a federal crime in response to the Lindbergh case.
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Known as the "father of the abduction movement," Hopkins was a painter, sculptor and author of Missing Time: A Documented Study of Alien Abductions (1981) and Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (1987).
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Often, two or more are listed in the same breath, usually because either their abductions or the recoveries of their bodies happened in such close proximity that they were essentially paired as one victim.
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Last year, the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances referred 55 cases of illegal abductions of MQM workers to the government, concluding a "pattern of specific targeting" of the MQM by Rangers.
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"France expresses its profound concern over the crimes, including the many murders and abductions, committed in recent weeks against civilians in central Mali," Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said in a statement.
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According to the report, those violations include extrajudicial killings, torture, sexual violence, extrajudicial arrest and detention, abductions, forced displacement, the use and recruitment of children, beatings, looting and the destruction of livelihoods and homes.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea protested on Tuesday against a U.N. report on alleged abductions of foreign nationals by Pyongyang and the many Korean families forcibly separated across the divided peninsula since the 1950s war.
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These abductions appear to have singled out mostly Tutsi members of a group known as Ex-Fab, made up of veterans who served in the armed forces before the end of the civil war.
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In nearly all credible reports of UFO sightings, there's no interaction with the witness (aside from claims of alien abductions, which evidence suggests are hallucinations caused by episodes of sleep paralysis and possibly abuse).
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kidnapping of aid workers has become "big business" as militants often work with crime networks to carry out abductions, a senior United Nations official and former hostage said on Tuesday.
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Kidnapping is a longstanding problem in Afghanistan, either for ransom or to put pressure on Western governments, while rebels in South Sudan have carried out mass abductions of humanitarian convoys to control aid delivery.
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Other abductions Defectors and former kidnap victims themselves, including Choi and former US army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins, have written of meeting many other abductees, including victims from China, the Middle East and Europe.
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Most notably, they have met dozens of times with elected county, state and federal officials, demanding that authorities acknowledge publicly North Carolina's role in these abductions and the specific individuals who have been harmed.
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Separately, Abe told reporters after a call on Sunday with Moon that the South Korean president had raised at the summit with Kim the issue of past abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
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Conspiracy theories about alien abductions, black ops, and the Illuminati were reserved for a small number of isolated tin foil hat wearers who traded "information" through obscure radio shows, crude web forums, and infrequent meetings.
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Madagali is located on the border with Borno state, the birthplace of the militant group Boko Haram, and has incurred many attacks and abductions since the military retook the area from the militants in 2015.
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Mr Moreno promised last month to send 12,000 soldiers and police to the region to fight drug gangs, and in response to the abductions the two countries have arrested 43 alleged members of the front.
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Meanwhile, North Korea's human rights violations, including the issue of the abductions of Japanese and other citizens, could undermine regional stability and thus should be seen as inseparable from matters of international peace and security.
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In a report, the United Nations Committee against Torture cited continuing reports of abductions of people disappearing into "white vans", deaths in custody, poor conditions of detention and the use of forced confessions in court.
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Although their songs were about alien abductions, befriending a notorious drug trafficker, and the hazards of drug abuse featuring George Foreman quotes, Super Furry Animals somehow found themselves smack dab in the thriving Britpop movement.
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Carrying coffins and placards and placards with inscriptions such as "Women Lives Matter" to the Naguru Police Headquarters in Kampala, they say the coffins are a symbol of those who have died in the abductions.
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With the government largely hidden from public view, it is not even clear whether Mr. Sisi has full control over the political repression, abductions, torture and other human-rights violations ascribed to the security services.
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The reported abductions come amid other battles between government forces and the Islamic State, which has been under increased military pressure from both an American-led aerial bombing campaign and from Syria's Russian military allies.
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SANA reported that the Asayish, the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, has escalated provocative actions in Hasaka in the last few days, attacking government buildings, stealing oil and cotton and carrying out abductions.
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"Already, trying to convince parents to keep their daughters in school is a challenge," said Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign that drew international attention to the Chibok abductions.
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These include ethnic-based killings, abductions, rape and sexual violence as well as the destruction of villages, with at least 232 civilians killed and 120 women and girls raped in just one month this spring.
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The faction, the Islamic State West African Province, which is supported by ISIS, has been responsible for high-profile abductions and propaganda victories, further complicating the security crisis from an insurgency entering its 10th year.
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Mangla Sharma, a Hindu lawmaker in the provincial assembly, said that episodes of intolerance toward the Hindu community had been increasing in Sindh, including abductions, forced conversions to Islam, and coerced marriages of Hindu girls.
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Prosecutors have claimed that the abductions were facilitated by representatives both of the medical profession and of the Catholic clergy, at a time when nuns worked in maternity hospitals and ran many of Spain's orphanages.
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Militants have been carrying out "assassinations, suicide attacks, abductions, and arson of crops in both Iraq and Syria," according to a report this summer by the Pentagon inspector general for operations against the Islamic State.
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An EU memo prepared for its diplomats ahead of talks in Harare on Thursday said the arrests and abductions of several political activists had "reinforced the impression that the democratic space is being curtained again".
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two Indonesians were kidnapped from fishing vessels in waters off Malaysia's Sabah state in two separate incidents on Saturday, Indonesia's foreign minister said, the latest in a string of abductions in the region.
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Police earlier said they had no information on Magoti after his organization alleged he had been abducted, in what initially appeared to be the latest in a series of abductions in the East African nation.
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Amnesty International has identified several crimes against humanity committed by members of Myanmar's military against the Rohingya Muslim population, including forcible deportation, enforced disappearances and abductions, forced starvation, and deprivation of livelihood and sexual violence.
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On Friday, Indonesia's foreign minister said a halt on coal shipments to the Philippines will remain until Manila can secure its waters after seven Indonesian sailors were kidnapped, the latest in a string of abductions.
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On Sunday, the Punjab law minister, Muhammad Basharat Raja, said at a news conference that intelligence agencies said Mr. Javed had had links to the Islamic State, and had been involved in abductions and killings.
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Thousands marched in Hong Kong on Saturday to protest against China's detention of five booksellers whose Hong Kong shop published gossipy books about Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping, in what critics called "cross-border abductions".
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Regional WEA systems are already in place—for example, those AMBER Alert messages advising residents of the details of child abductions as well as flash flood, tornado, and hurricane warnings already go out using the system.
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Those who have fled the area have reported severe shortages of food and medicines as well as lootings, public beheadings, "crucifixions" on scaffolding and abductions, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Rohingya militants urged their followers on Wednesday to refrain from crime in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, following reports of killings and abductions attributed to the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).
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Today, Mrs Eren and the other Saturday Mothers, the group she and other relatives of the missing founded in 1995 to hold the state accountable for abductions and extrajudicial killings, have no place left to grieve.
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The imaginative legends that are associated with the region speak more to the human need for supernatural explanations to heartrending tragedies than it does to alien abductions, lost civilizations, or the general bloodlust of the sea.
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Tokyo's Foreign Ministry regards the abductions as "a critical issue concerning the sovereignty of Japan and the lives and safety of Japanese citizens," one that precludes any normalization of relations with Pyongyang until it is resolved.
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Those who have fled the area have reported severe shortages of food and medicines as well as lootings, public beheadings, "crucifixions" on scaffolding and abductions, the U.N. relief agency said in a report accompanying its appeal.
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At the height of its strength in 2014, Boko Haram controlled 19 out of 65 government areas in the northeast, a huge amount of territory, meaning civilians didn't have access to the authorities to report abductions.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he wanted to see a resolution to the issue of past abductions of 13 Japanese citizens Pyongyang admits were kidnapped in the 0003s and 1980s to train spies.
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These are children who have witnessed killings, abductions and sexual violence since South Sudan plunged into civil war in 2013, but there are few experts to guide their recovery in what is the world's youngest country.
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The mothers never got any answers — government officials always denied any knowledge of the missing — but the human rights organization Amnesty International credited the Saturday Mothers with single-handedly checking the abductions by Turkey's security forces.
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Gadgets abound but her main secret weapon is the dirigible that, perpetually hovering in the clouds, can be used for surveillance and the application of knockout drugs, as well as facilitating various abductions, thefts and escapes.
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For immigrants awaiting a verdict on their status, the relocation can also be dangerous; high rates of murder, abductions, and sexual violence are reported along these northern Mexican border zones, per the Latin America Working Group.
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The militants have waged a campaign of abductions, assassinations and bombings against those it considers non-believers, including the government of Nigeria and other muslims, especially in the region of Borno and the regional capital Maiduguri.
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And with the total breakdown of the judicial system and thousands of forced abductions on both sides of the conflict, many of the people we met with in private were too afraid to go on the record.
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"Attacks and threats against humanitarians increased," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a bulletin, adding that there were also 18 injuries, 11 abductions and 38 arrests in 2015 involving aid agency staff.
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A police hunt for a Missouri couple wanted for a series of abductions and robberies across the South ended early Friday on the Florida Panhandle in a barrage of gunfire that left one of the suspects dead.
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Appearing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) set up to unearth atrocities committed by both sides in the anti-apartheid struggle, Madikizela-Mandela refused to show remorse for abductions and murders carried out in her name.
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UFOs and alien abductions are both long-running staples in science fiction and fantasy circles, running the gamut from Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the SCI FI channel's 2002 miniseries Taken.
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The abductions took place on Wednesday on the outskirts of Benin City, the state capital, Edo state police commissioner Dan Malam Mohammed told Reuters, adding that the two workers were employed by a company called Time Multinational.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Pakistan must address a catalog of human rights failings including state-sponsored abductions and a death penalty that amounts to torture, but its national watchdog is muzzled, the U.N. Human Rights Committee said on Thursday.
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The girl's home district, South 24 Parganas, has seen a steady rise in crime against women, with police recording a jump of more than 80 percent in the number of kidnaps and abductions between 2010 and 2013.
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The ministry said earlier this month the Chinese couple Lee Zing Yang, 24, and Meng Li Si, 26, had been missionaries posing as language teachers, in violation of visa rules, and that had contributed to their abductions.
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The discovery of the corpse was a dramatic turning point in a case that has dominated headlines in Argentina for weeks, evoking painful memories of abductions, mass disappearances and killings during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
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The lawsuit, however, said that more could be done, such as an Amber Alert-style warning that would notify passengers if they are within a five-mile radius of locations where abductions by fake drivers have occurred.
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"They think he should not be prosecuted," says Cakaj, explaining that in northern Uganda, a region where few communities had been left unscathed by LRA child abductions, there was a degree of sympathy for the former warlord.
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Last year, the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances referred 55 cases of what it called illegal abductions of MQM workers to the government, concluding a "pattern of specific targeting" of the MQM by Rangers.
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Fourteen plaintiffs in the Tokyo District Court lawsuit say it is unconstitutional that Japan does not have a system to prevent violation of their parental rights, particularly since it has signed an international treaty on such abductions.
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Significantly, two dead Large Blue butterflies were labeled with the letters CH and DB, which prosecutors said stood for Collard Hill in Somerset and Daneway Banks in Gloucestershire, where the butterfly abductions or killings had taken place.
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In fact, Boko Haram has carried out other mass student abductions and, according to Human Rights Watch, has kidnapped more than 2,000 students, destroyed 910 schools, forced 1,500 to close and caused nearly a million students to flee.
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Related: UN Panel Says Rwanda Is Training Rebels to Depose Burundi's President A recent Human Rights Watch report found that government forces are targeting members of opposition, noting an "alarming rate" of murders, abductions, arbitrary arrests, and torture.
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Spate of abductions According to a 2014 report by the United Nations Human Rights Council, hundreds of South Koreans, Japanese, and other foreign nationals were kidnapped by North Korea following the end of the Korean War in 1953.
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The team verifies six violations, namely the recruitment and use of children by parties in the conflict, killing and maiming, rape and other forms of sexual violence, attacks on hospitals and schools, abductions, and denial of humanitarian access.
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In it, she describes how false memories can be deliberately placed in people's brains—leading to false police confessions that could send the wrong person to jail, or detailed accounts of alien abductions that (almost certainly) never happened.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped three Indonesian members of a tugboat crew off Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, police said on Sunday, the latest in a string of abductions in a region noted for kidnappings by Islamist militants.
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Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A group of parents fighting against child "abductions" by their partners accused Japan in a lawsuit on Wednesday of having a double standard in how it treats domestic instances of such incidents, compared to international ones.
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At the time of the abductions, the local governor described a sophisticated, militarylike operation in which the kidnappers arrived in dozens of S.U.V.s with mounted machine guns and stormed a cluster of tents set up by the Qataris.
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Invisible Children urged the public, through donations and viral noise, to somehow invoke the wrath of the US government upon the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the militant extremist group responsible for the abductions — especially its leader, Joseph Kony.
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JAKARTA/MANILA (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Friday a halt on coal shipments to the Philippines will remain in place until Manila can secure its waters after seven Indonesian sailors were kidnapped, the latest in a string of abductions.
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Speaking to reporters in front of his home in Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo, Shigeo Iizuka, a brother of Yaeko Taguchi, one of the kidnapped, said that he was "disappointed" the abductions were not mentioned in the joint statement.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped vehicles and detained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan's highways over the past few weeks.
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Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Friday that the agency believed the violence in Rakhine State had also resulted in destroyed property, arbitrary arrests and abductions in civilian areas.
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His televised confession later became a symbol of what human rights advocates say is the Beijing government's increasingly repressive measures to clampdown on dissent -- including overseas abductions, televised confessions, and ignoring consular rights even for those with foreign citizenship.
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A wide range of continuing abuses were also noted by the committee, which cited a revival of so-called white van abductions, named after the vehicles used in the kidnappings of suspects who disappeared into unregistered places of detention.
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"On behalf of the federal government, I recognize the targeted segregation and policy of forced abductions of the metis during the colonial rule over Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi," Michel said using colonial-era names of the affected countries.
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Japanese officials including Abe have left open the possibility that Abe may hold talks with Kim Jong Un, with a focus on the abductions, although diplomatic experts say that would likely be after seeing how the other summits play out.
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More than 2100 teenage girls are missing after a suspected Boko Haram raid on a Nigerian school last week, national officials said Sunday, in one of the biggest kidnappings by the terror group since the abductions in Chibok in 27.
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More than 100 teenage girls are missing after a suspected Boko Haram raid on a Nigerian school last week, national officials said Sunday, in one of the biggest kidnappings by the terror group since the abductions in Chibok in 2014.
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It doesn't conform to typical genre norms; its horrors are derived from Lovecraftian weird fiction converging with the building terror of real-life child abductions and scary clown hoaxes that were rampant in the early '80s when It was being written.
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Abductions of Westerners in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities were common in the years after the American invasion in 2003, but the latest episode is believed to be the first kidnapping of an American in Iraq in nearly six years.
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In its most recent annual human rights report, the State Department last year noted an increase in "politically motivated abductions" in Rwanda and said that local human rights groups had stopped investigating such cases as a result of government pressure.
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"Many defenders say they are attacked by those companies... abductions, killings, their demonstrations blocked by security forces," Forst, the U.N. rapporteur on human rights defenders, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the fringes of an activist meeting in the Irish capital.
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JAKARTA, June 24 (Reuters) - Seven Indonesian sailors have been taken hostage in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Friday, the latest in a string of abductions in the waters between the two Southeast Asian neighbours.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents marched in protest on the 19th anniversary of the financial hub's return to Chinese rule on Friday as tensions simmer against Chinese authorities over the abductions of Hong Kong booksellers.
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Some waved banners criticizing Beijing for the cross-border abductions as acts of a "totalitarian" regime, as well as calling for the release of leading dissidents, chanting for democracy and for Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying to step down.
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The abductions began shortly after the Syria Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-dominated coalition of Syrians fighting the Islamic State and backed by the United States, began an offensive on May 31 to capture the town of Manbij from the militants.
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"Hezbollah wants to insert several battalions to our territory with the aim of isolating communities, towns and kibbutzim (collective farms) to continue its reign of terror and abductions which could take place simultaneously," he told a meeting of foreign diplomats.
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Japan has not been engaging with North Korea itself and is counting on the United States to represent its interests — including Pyongyang's missiles with ranges that can hit Japan and North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens in the 85033s and 1980s.
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Abe said he would ask Trump to bring up the issue of past North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens, during the U.S. president's expected summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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Over the last two years, Mr. Sisi's government has carried out a crackdown on dissidents, and there was a surge in reports of abductions, torture and other abuses by the security forces in the months before Mr. Regeni, 28, disappeared.
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After Novaya Gazeta reported on the roundup, Russian federal prosecutors said an investigation into the abductions would require that a victim file a police report — something victims were reluctant to do, given the role of the police in the abuse.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a South Korean representative on Tuesday he wants talks with North Korea, called to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs, to resolve a dispute over past abductions of Japanese citizens as well.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he would coordinate closely with Japan during denuclearization talks with North Korea and promised to raise the issue of the abductions of Japanese citizens in his meetings in Pyongyang.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made the abductions a keystone of his political career and said he won't rest until all 13 of those Pyongyang admits to kidnapping have returned and divulges information about the others Japan suspects were taken.
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After initially being interested in child abductions, Cantrell's office has also signed up for Banjo's "opioid module," which the Utah Department of Health told the Utah state legislature was developed for $250,000 as part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program.
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But there's just no way Mulder would buy this new theory so easily, especially since he already did way back in the show's heyday, when he similarly decided the government was behind seeming alien abductions (in the show's fifth season).
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DAKAR (Reuters) - More than 200 people have been kidnapped in eastern Central African Republic this year, already nearly double last year's level, in a wave of abductions blamed on the Lord's Resistance Army, an organization tracking the rebel group said Thursday.
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Tokyo's insistence on including discussion of the abductions by North Korean agents could cause friction between Japan, South Korea and the United States if Seoul or Washington were willing to cut a denuclearisation deal with Pyongyang separate from any abduction pact.
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At his Houston trial for Deaton&aposs slaying, prosecutors presented evidence of robberies, thefts, assaults and abductions, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl in Montana and his confessions to repeated sexual assaults of young nieces from 1996 to 1998.
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Since then, it has appeared to shift the focus of its attacks away from government installations and toward "softer" targets like the ferry and the highway where the recent abductions occurred, said U Ye Myo Hein, an expert on security issues in Myanmar.
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"It is crucial that reports of abductions, unlawful detentions, torture, beatings and killings of men perceived to be gay or bisexual are investigated thoroughly," a statement posted on the website for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
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After all, while I was still doing a lot of benching and deadlifting, a lot of the accessory exercises that I ordinarily would have devoted to ab work or bicep curls were now high-rep glute exercises like frog pumps and hip abductions.
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The man, Robert Hall, was abducted in September with three other people — one of dozens of such abductions carried out in the last few decades by Abu Sayyaf, an organization of several hundred fighters that has functioned as a hostage-for-ransom gang.
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That included "his role in the extrajudicial execution of 15 people in the Barrios Altos district of Lima, the enforced disappearance and murder of nine students and a teacher from La Cantuta University, and two abductions," Human Rights Watch said in July.
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But instead of funding a $19673 million project to get to the bottom of the issue, the US military could have spent its time reading some of the many tales of UFO sightings, abductions and alien encounters with humans over the decades.
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In its brief final act, though, "Recent Alien Abductions" finds its potency again as Álvaro reappears, this time with the versions of his family that he wrote into his plays: alien mother and alien brother, eerily masked (costumes are by Fabian Fidel Aguilar).
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United Nations investigators have documented evidence of arbitrary detentions, torture and abductions since Russian troops annexed the Crimean Peninsula, according to a report presented in Geneva on Monday and linking abuses to the Federal Security Service, Russian police officers and a paramilitary group.
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Ms. Katiee and Mr. Hatuka are part of a movement among the younger generation of Israelis of Yemenite descent — and activists from the broader Mizrahi community — who are building public pressure in demanding explanations for the disappearances and acknowledgment of systematic abductions.
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"Victims have reported killings, rape, torture and abductions by the security forces and local militia, as well as apparently deliberate attempts to force the Rohingya to leave the area through starvation, with officials blocking their access to crops and food supplies," he said.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mass killings, rape, torture, abductions and forced cannibalism have led to an increase in mental illness in South Sudan, with patients routinely housed in prisons due to an "almost total" absence of mental health care, a rights group said on Wednesday.
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At his trial for Deaton&aposs slaying in Texas, Harris County prosecutors presented evidence of robberies, thefts, assaults and abductions, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl in Montana and his confessions to repeated sexual assaults of young girls from 1996 to 1998.
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"Reasons for the abductions include teaching foreign languages in spy and military training schools, for technical expertise, and, in the case of many abductees, to be 'given' in marriage to foreigners in the DPRK, to prevent inter-racial marriage with ethnic Koreans," the commission said.
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Here are 10 key facts about Boko Haram and the Dapchi abductions: Since 2009, Boko Haram has waged an insurgency to carve out an Islamic state in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad that has killed at least 20,000 people and displaced more than 193 million.
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Here is a (partial?) list of things she has said she believes in: The Ark of the Covenant, past lives, the theory of ancient alien astronauts, alien abductions, Bigfoot, spirits, faith healing, glossolalia, leprechauns, the Loch Ness Monster, the Bell Witch, psychic powers, and auras.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly pushed for Trump to raise the issue of repeated abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea in his upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un. More than a dozen abductees still remain missing, according to the Japanese government.
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In Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas's "Recent Alien Abductions" — a play that examines the many meanings of "alien" — it is a kind of show within the show, touching on cultural dominion and the caprices of memory, but also on trauma and erasure, both personal and sociopolitical.
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Tokyo's insistence on including discussion of the abductions of its citizens by North Korean agents could cause friction between Japan, South Korea and the United States if Seoul or Washington were willing to cut a denuclearisation deal with Pyongyang separate from any abduction agreement.
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The report said the militants also carried out mass abductions of civilians, used thousands of civilians as shields in combat with Iraqi soldiers, and forcibly recruited boys as young as nine from families then deployed them as "Cubs of the Caliphate" wearing explosive belts.
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On the anniversary of the abductions, the families of the missing students and their supporters have continued to march for justice in Mexico City, but the numbers have grown thinner each year, and the pressure had eased on the government to resolve the case.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - One hundred and ten girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the information ministry said on Sunday, in what may be one of the largest abductions since the Chibok kidnappings of 2014.
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One in 10 women in Nigeria have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner in the last 12 months, according to UN Women, and mass abductions and rape have been a feature of a decade of conflict in the northeast.
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Pakistan's powerful and secretive security establishment — which ranges from its feared intelligence agency, the ISI, to the country's military, which has carried out three coups since its inception in 22017 — has long used abductions to silence anyone who dares to question and expose their actions.
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Archpriest Thomas Zain, Vicar General of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and Dean of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral of Brooklyn, New York, said that while there has been absolutely no news since the abductions, Syrian Church officials have continued to painstakingly raise the matter with Western intelligence.
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"The Communist Party should immediately stop investigating the people they believe are behind the letter demanding that Xi Jinping resign, and cease the abductions, harassment, and investigations of media personnel, commentators, and netizens, and their family members," he wrote in a statement published Sunday on Chinachange.
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In addition to claims that alien abductions are real and the drug epidemic was engineered by the "deep state," the channel pushes the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely posits that the same "Spygate" cabal is a front for a global pedophile ring being taken down by Trump.
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Recent decades have seen the rise of arbitrary abductions and killings in the regions of Mexico that host the country's leading cartel headquarters; much of the violence is as nonsensical as it is brutal, and yet the myth of the benevolent drug lord persists beyond Mexico's borders.
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Between November and late March, over 4,770 people were killed in the Sahel, the sub-Saharan region of northern Africa, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, as a recent surge of violence between ethnic groups, including bombings, massacres and abductions, has torn the region.
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They are in this whimsical international coproduction, in which a group of fright-fanatic friends — Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco), Andrés (the "Saturday Night Live" writer Julio Torres), Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) and Tati (Ana Fabrega) — set up shop staging bogus exorcisms and fake alien abductions for fun and profit.
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Abe has made the abductions a keystone of his political career, vowing not to rest until all 13 of the people North Korea admitted to kidnapping have returned and the isolated state divulges information about the others Japan suspects were taken to train North Korean spies.
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The general insecurity around Tripoli, particularly at night, with abductions and shootings commonplace, meant their situation was precarious (though that could be said of all the countries I visited where local armed conflict was prevalent, such as the Central African Republic, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo).
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These policy changes followed public pressure over incidents revealing the consequences of viral misinformation, such as a spate of lynch mobs in Sri Lanka and India linked to false rumors of child abductions spreading on WhatsApp, and the harassment of victims of mass shootings in the US on YouTube.
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The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, June 26th Paul Tremblay's recent two horror novels, A Head Full of Ghosts and The Disappearance at Devil's Rock, were each masterpieces of the genre, deconstructing popular tropes with subtle and effectively horrifying tales of exorcisms and abductions.
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"If Abe brings up abductions and short and mid-range missiles, it's obvious that Trump will say, 'OK, do something on the economic side,'" said a Japanese ruling party lawmaker well-versed in U.S.-Japan ties, who declined to be identified because the topic and timing are sensitive.
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Of 30 acts of piracy reported in the first half of 2017 six involved the use of guns, of which three were crew abductions from ships underway in the Sulu Celebes Seas, according to the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP).
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This reoccurring "post-anomaly government interview" sketch has historically been an invitation for McKinnon to deliver some of her raunchiest lines as the chain-smoking character Ms. Rafferty, who always seems to get the raw end of the deal when it comes to alien abductions and time travel.
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Summer has officially started, and as we get ready to shamelessly envelop ourselves in copious amounts of citrusy booze and BBQ, we are once again met with that most quintessential of summertime practices: Assholes attempting to capitalize on or promote mass hysteria with baseless stories of child abductions.
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Abe was expected to advise caution in his meeting with Trump, and ask him to raise two key issues at the summit: the abductions by North Korea of Japanese citizens, and short and medium range missiles that don't pose a threat to the U.S. but could strike Japan.
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The Taliban, the office of the prosecutor wrote, has led "a widespread and systematic campaign of intimidation, targeted killings and abductions of civilians" perceived to oppose them, while the Afghan Army and police showed "systemic patterns of torture and cruel treatment" of war prisoners, including acts of sexual violence.
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Abe has made the abductions a keystone of his political career and has said he would not rest until all 13 of the people North Korea admitted to kidnapping have returned and the isolated state divulges information about the others Japan suspects were taken to train North Korean spies.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Men in civilian clothes snatched a Tanzanian human rights activist from a street in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam on Friday, the rights group that employs him said, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of abductions.
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Tourism is vital for Kenya's economy but it suffered in the early part of the decade after a series of abductions and attacks blamed on Somali militant group al Shabaab that culminated in a raid on a shopping mall in Nairobi in 2013 in which more than 60 people were killed.
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"From gang activity to child abductions to national security threats, the ability to access electronic evidence in a timely manner is often essential to successfully conducting lawful investigations and preventing harm to potential victims," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said at the annual State of the Net conference on Monday.
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Darwin Franco, an independent investigative journalist who has spent the last five years documenting disappearances in Jalisco, believes the current wave of abductions may be linked to instability within the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which has grown rapidly into one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organizations over the past five years.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made resolving the abduction issue a keystone of his political career, has yet to set up talks with Kim despite recently saying he is ready to meet without conditions, a shift from his long-held position that a summit depends on progress regarding the abductions.
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The Financial Times, citing Choi Sung-ryong, a leading campaigner on the issue of North Korea's abductions, reported that the men had already been released from a North Korean labor camp weeks ago, and were getting "health treatment and ideological education" at a hotel near Pyongyang ahead of their handover to U.S. officials.
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Trump broke the news of the tour's separation from Doral on Tuesday night in an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity and added, "I hope they have kidnapping insurance," a reference to a spate of abductions of high-profile sportsmen, including the Mexican national soccer team member Alan Pulido, who was rescued.
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In Nigeria she profiles Rebecca, who has escaped from Boko Haram, and Elder, a government clerk who fights the insurgents; in Somalia she meets a teenage basketball player named Aisha, who receives daily death threats and has survived two attempted abductions yet still goes to the game, track pants under her jilbab.
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The 27-year-old's killing, in what appears to have been a staged gun battle, has prompted a protest movement led by young Pashtuns from the tribal areas in the country's northwest, where they have long been the targets of military operations, internal displacement, ethnic stereotyping and abductions by the security forces.
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Congress met in Fountain Hills, Arizona, last week, taking over the posh We-Ko-Pa Resort with their usual displays of space alien paraphernalia, panels about extraterrestrial abductions and occasional close encounters with tourists who dared to mix it up with cowboy boots, flying saucer earrings and "I Don't Believe in Humans" T-shirts.
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Since her daughter's disappearance, Swartz has continued to keep her story in the spotlight and has assisted in helping pass legislature with AMBER Alert (named after a 9-year-old who went missing in Texas in 1996), as well as doing work with the Department of Justice to educate law enforcement about child abductions.
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One group known for its involvement in such abductions is Abu Sayyaf, or Bearers of the Sword, a militant group with many factions, one of which is led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, who has been identified by the United States as the new leader of the Islamic State affiliate operating in the southern Philippines.
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But every time China looks like it might be succeeding in taking its place on the world stage as a mature and confident global player, some internal issue -- such as its treatment of Liu, or the government's ongoing campaign against civil rights lawyers, or the extra-territorial abductions -- will demonstrate just how unprepared, and how insecure, China's leaders are.
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IRBMs typically have a range of 1553,000 to 5,500 kilometers (1,864 to 3,417 miles) -- much farther than needed to hit South Korea, but not long enough to hit the lower 48 states (though Guam is in its range.) Abductions and conquerors Japan and North Korea do not have active diplomatic relations, but there has been progress to normalize them in recent years.
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ALSO READ: Daughter of Hong Kong bookseller: Don't let China get away with illegal abductions "Lee's involuntary removal from Hong Kong to the mainland constituted a serious breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration by undermining the 'one country, two systems' principle," Johnson said, referring to the system which grants Hong Kong limited autonomy and control of its own legal affairs.
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The number of casualties from fighting between government forces and pro-Russian armed groups in eastern Ukraine has fallen in recent months, Gianni Magazzeni, a senior official at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in Geneva, but rights monitors have continued to receive reports of killings, abductions, torture and poor treatment of prisoners by rebel groups.
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Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has returned 110 of the girls kidnapped from a Nigerian boarding school last month, reports the AP. Why it matters: Boko Haram, which means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, has carried out several mass abductions in the last few years, most notably in 2014 when extremists kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.
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In 2017, fewer than 10 percent of homicide victims were killed by strangers, according to the F.B.I. And according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, cases in which strangers abduct children are very rare; of more than 25,000 reports of missing children that the group received in 2018, only 77 were abductions by nonfamily members, said Erin Farrell, a center representative.
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Sutherland was "physically abused by his captors, who on one occasion subjected him to a most severe beating with a rubber truncheon, first on the soles of his feet and thereafter over his entire body until he was black and blue everywhere," according to a lawsuit he and other hostages filed against Iran for its role in supporting Hezbollah, the Islamic group that carried out the abductions.
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Mr. Friedman was a civilian investigator of the Roswell incident and wrote about his findings with Don Berliner in the 1992 book "Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a U.F.O." Mr. Friedman trusted in the veracity of many eyewitness accounts of alien visitations and abductions, and accepted reports of burn circles, landing gear marks and small footprints as evidence of flying saucer landings and takeoffs.
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Rather, it's that our alien encounters, whether real or imaginary, are the same kind of thing as the fairy encounters of the human past — part of an enduring phenomenon whose interpretations shift but whose essentials are consistent, featuring the same abductions and flying crafts and lights and tricks with crops and animals and time and space, the same shape-shifting humanoids and sexual experiments and dangerous gifts and mysterious intentions.
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Ted PoeLloyd (Ted) Theodore PoeSenate Dem to reintroduce bill with new name after 'My Little Pony' confusion Texas New Members 2019 Cook shifts two House GOP seats closer to Dem column MORE (R-Texas) introduced another bill last month that would put North Korea back on the list, in which he stated about 20 acts of terrorism perpetrated by the North, which includes hacking attacks, cyberattacks, abductions, assassination attempts, arms trade, and nuclear and missile threats.
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From the contentious MJ-12 documents, secret underground alien bases, cattle mutilations, crash retrieval of alien spacecraft, top-secret cooperative agreements and exchange programs with extraterrestrials and the U.S. government, an alien race called "Ebens" (aka The Greys), alien abductions, to the recruitment of once-prominent UFO researchers as clandestine assets of disinformation—virtually every popular UFO legend and conspiracy theory has some connection to AFOSI, because Doty claims he seeded disinformation while at the group's command.
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His company, Causeway Bay Books, was due to publish a book on Chinese president Xi Jinping's alleged love affairs before he came to power, according to Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho. Calls for release of missing men Protesters chanted "no to cross-border abductions" and "stop political kidnapping" at the march, which went from the Special Administrative Region's government offices in the business district of Admiralty to the Chinese government's liaison office in the western Hong Kong district of Sai Wan.
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The group followed April's attack with dozens more throughout the country, before launching its next high-profile strike in July, when the group claimed a car-bomb attack in Kabul that killed more than 70 people, according to United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA.) The most recent quarterly Special Investigator for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report found that Afghanistan was suffering an average of 70 reported attacks a day across the country, including suicide bombings, armed clashes, IEDs, abductions, and other criminal attacks.
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"No matter where they run or how much they run, we will go after them," Erdogan told lawmakers in Ankara, according to Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu Agency.. The latest round of secretive abductions follows a little-covered interview with Turkish news outlet Haberturk last week, in which Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said Ankara's spy agency "bundled up and brought back" 33 suspects against their will, as part of their global response to so-called threats to Turkey's security from Gullen's supporters.
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"No matter where they run or how much they run, we will go after them," Erdogan told lawmakers in Ankara, according to Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu Agency.. The latest round of secretive abductions follows a little-covered interview with Turkish news outlet Haberturk last week, in which Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said Ankara's spy agency "bundled up and brought back" 80 suspects against their will, as part of their global response to so-called threats to Turkey's security from Gullen's supporters.
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