No kidnappings or even attempted kidnappings have been reported to the police.
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Attempted kidnappings Snyder says she has also been a victim of two attempted kidnappings.
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Uptick in violence, kidnappings Saturday's attack is the latest in a rash of kidnappings and bombings in Kabul, which have heightened security fears in the nation's capital.
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" -Gizmodo "I have survived many assassination attempts and kidnappings.
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Buhari ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in January.
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American authorities warned he might be a target for kidnappings.
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Many Colombians, who recall the FARC's kidnappings and bombings, agree.
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"There is a lot of torture from kidnappings," he sighed.
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" CBS News said it was "A Tale of Two Kidnappings.
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Kidnappings are common in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea.
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At least one major faction of separatists condemned the kidnappings.
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Gun battles, narrow escapes, kidnappings, disguises, torture and assassinations ensue.
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Hundreds of kidnappings were reported in the border state last year.
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Gomez said her family had been victims of kidnappings for ransom.
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Plagued with bombings, shootings, and kidnappings, Baghdad was just too dangerous.
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There are no robberies, kidnappings, or extortions here because of him.
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Bombings, kidnappings Boko Haram aims to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says paying ransom could encourage more kidnappings.
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Kidnappings for ransom are a common problem in parts of Nigeria.
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Dozens of robberies and kidnappings have been reported that target mining.
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Of course, he admitted, he was talking only about reported kidnappings.
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Scam alert: The latest online hoax rattling US families is virtual kidnappings.
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FARC had seized territory, attacked government forces and conducted high-profile kidnappings.
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During their captivity, no group claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, Gentiloni said.
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Why would there be a sudden spike in kidnappings at that time?
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The kidnappings, she learns, are related to a mysterious substance called Dust.
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Officials say that most kidnappings in Kabul are conducted by criminal gangs.
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"It's not just rape, we even have kidnappings and killings," she said.
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Boko Haram fighters have carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings.
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Kidnappings and piracy in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea are common.
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Other messages included fake scenarios about kidnappings intended to scare family members.
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" He said the kidnappings were "an insult to Iraq and its people.
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The case resembled two kidnappings in Austria more than a decade ago.
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The charges against Mr. Patterson buck national trends in homicides and kidnappings.
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Despite Monday's hostage release, the issue of kidnappings remains a touchy subject.
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A rash of kidnappings and Taliban bombings have heightened security fears in Kabul.
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The group's fighters have since then waged a campaign of kidnappings and killings.
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Assault, kidnappings and petty theft are also rampant, especially near the food lines.
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The rash of kidnappings and Taliban bombings have heightened security fears in Kabul.
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The negotiations have been delayed by the rebels' continued kidnappings and infrastructure attacks.
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The kidnappings happened in a mountainous area of Lebanon near the Syrian border.
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In Iraq they have gone to ground, staging waves of killings and kidnappings.
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Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana recently described Abu Sayyaf's kidnappings as a national embarrassment.
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This is the second conviction in connection to the Chibok kidnappings this year.
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These legalized kidnappings and ensuing torture are a gross violation of human rights.
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Today, kidnappings, firefights and the threat of terrorism are growing in the Philippines.
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They still have sleeper cells- every day there are assassinations, kidnappings and bombings.
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U.N. reports warn of frequent kidnappings, forced disappearances and assassinations by unknown assailants.
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A spate of kidnappings for ransom has plagued some parts of the country.
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The rumors that spread on social media platforms like Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter were followed by an outburst of violence against the Roma, despite assurances by the French authorities that no kidnappings or attempted kidnappings had been reported to the police.
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In recognition of this alarming milestone, we assembled a brief history of Swedish kidnappings.
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Come dusk, many Venezuelans shut themselves inside their homes to avoid muggings and kidnappings.
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I opened handwritten eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.
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Terrorist attacks, bombings, murders, kidnappings and brutal state retaliation continue at a brisk pace.
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Badruddin is also believed to be in charge of kidnappings for the Haqqani Network.
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The number of malicious crimes such as murders, kidnappings and extortions have come down.
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Travelers have faced a string of murders and kidnappings on roads in recent weeks.
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Kidnappings and piracy for ransom in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea are common.
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Their war prompted a bloody period of murders, kidnappings, and shootings at tourist sites.
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There are still massacres today, but there are no more kidnappings of business people.
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Bankers were frightened away by a spate of kidnappings for ransom in the 220s.
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Last year 1,307 kidnappings were reported to prosecutors, down from 1,840 the year before.
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Dozens of countries saw assassinations, coups, revolts, bombings, political kidnappings and wars of liberation.
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Those who have crossed the Mediterranean have shared stories about beatings, kidnappings and enslavement.
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Nicholson also said the Taliban makes its money from kidnappings and illegal mining operations.
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Murders and kidnappings in the cities and towns decreased significantly and economic development surged.
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Mr. Hapilon's group, Abu Sayyaf, earned a reputation for brutality, including kidnappings and beheadings.
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But those successes have been marred by the new kidnappings at the Dapchi school.
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The public needs to be made aware that kidnappings by strangers are extremely rare.
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In Turkey, the report found, political dissidents were "disappeared" or victims of attempted kidnappings.
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His work is a sampling of the drug war's fare: dismembered bodies, gunfights, kidnappings.
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After Duterte solved a couple of high-profile cases, the number of kidnappings decreased.
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They&aposve clarified that there have been no reports of kidnappings in their areas.
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Kidnappings in the oil-producing Delta region where Rivers state sits are not uncommon.
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Since then, North Korea has repeatedly backtracked on its promise to investigate the kidnappings.
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The FBI data does not record how many reported abductions are confirmed as actual kidnappings.
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But the Quetta kidnappings were unlikely to "put the Chinese interests off track," he added.
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Putting a halt to kidnappings was one of the conditions the government set for negotiations.
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The area was the scene last year of the kidnappings of at least two Westerners.
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Kidnappings also keep companies and charities out of places in need of investment and help.
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They have written this commentary to mark the five year anniversary of the Chibok kidnappings.
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The armed guerrilla group seized territory, attacked government forces and pulled off high-profile kidnappings.
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The father tried to pay, but the police protested that this would encourage further kidnappings.
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Benji, scruffy solver of crimes, quasher of kidnappings, sniffer of butts, is coming to Netflix.
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He's pleaded not guilty to 77 criminal counts related to these kidnappings and sexual assaults.
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In the '00s, Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard became household names for surviving their kidnappings.
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But inside the conference in February, panelists carefully avoided any mention of murders or kidnappings.
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There had been kidnappings in Detroit at that time—a little girl had been killed.
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Kidnappings are rampant in Nigeria, where both locals and foreigners are targeted — mostly for ransom.
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Local media have linked several attacks and kidnappings targeting civil registry staff to financial scams.
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Sunni Arabs in Anbar Province have reported a rising number of kidnappings by Shiite militias.
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There have been rumors of other kidnappings of Westerners, but embassies have not confirmed them.
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In addition to this are myriad assaults, attempted murders, kidnappings, acid attacks and anthrax threats.
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The group has been blamed for a spike in kidnappings for ransom in recent weeks.
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How was music entangled with some of the other kidnappings and murders of the era?
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It revealed new details of the kidnappings, which had not been reported to the police.
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The ransom payments have led critics to express worry that they could inspire more kidnappings.
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She speculated that it was fueled by media attention to child kidnappings and other crimes.
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"The ELN is and has been a criminal machine of kidnappings and attacks," he said.
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Separately, Iraqi truffle hunters have become the latest victims of Islamic State kidnappings and killings.
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"Are you guys O.K.?" she asks after hearing their tales of curses, kidnappings and enslavement.
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Units became known for Mafia-style protection rackets, kidnappings and extortion, even in Shiite neighborhoods.
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A flurry of unsolved murders and kidnappings has eroded Ugandans' trust in the security forces.
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The remote highlands and the road we would be on was especially notorious for kidnappings.
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Mr. Trump's tales of kidnappings and mayhem, too, are far more racy than the truth.
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"Rumors of child kidnappings with a van are completely unfounded," said the Paris police prefecture.
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Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group operating hundreds of miles to the north in border areas with Nigeria, has used mass kidnappings of students as a tactic to terrorize the population, but it is not suspected of being behind the Presbyterian school kidnappings in Cameroon.
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Kidnappings and torture matched with inflammatory racist statements that are broadcast on Facebook Live are rare.
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For much of the last century, the Calabrian mafia made its money from extortion and kidnappings.
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It has been blacklisted as a terrorist group for bombings, kidnappings for ransom, beheadings and extortion.
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Migrants are particular targets in cities across the borders, with kidnappings by the cartels shockingly commonplace.
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In the past few days, the area has experienced a series of killings, kidnappings and robberies.
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No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, and the whereabouts of the staffers remains unknown.
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Ten kidnappings involving 65 crew members took place in or around Nigerian waters, the IMB said.
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Kidnappings are rife in Nigeria, where domestic security is weak, though they overwhelmingly target other Nigerians.
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Eight million rapes and deaths and kidnappings that have been attributed to the various conflict actors.
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He claims to have participated in numerous kidnappings -- one of the hallmarks of Abu Sayyaf's operations.
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The group has provoked international condemnation with its brutality and mass kidnappings of women and girls.
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In "express" kidnappings, victims are forced to take money out of an ATM and then released.
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This makes it harder both to prevent kidnappings and end them without bloodshed or ransom payments.
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Kidnappings for ransom, once rare, rose to 202 cases in 2018, an eightfold jump from 2500.
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They said they took up arms to defend themselves from kidnappings, extortion and killings by cartels.
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Kidnappings, terrorism, chemical warfare, shelling, and aerial bombardment pose high risk of death or serious injury.
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Looting and kidnappings have increased in the city, and ISIS terrorist activity is on the rise.
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But then the assassinations, bombings and kidnappings started after the Islamists took control of the city.
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I call for the international community to speak out against these barbaric kidnappings by Chinese police.
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Abu Sayyaf has a long history of kidnappings for ransom and terrorist attacks in the Philippines.
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"Those who didn't leave paid the consequences: disappeared relatives, kidnappings, torture, and executions," recalls The Administrator.
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Many of those deaths are the result of robberies, kidnappings, gang disputes, and sometimes police violence.
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The kidnappings of the girls aged between 16 and 18 in April 2014 sparked global outrage.
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Extortions and kidnappings spiked, targeting not just businesses and the rich but also middle-class workers.
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Separately, Iraqi truffle hunters have become the latest victims of the Islamic State kidnappings and killings.
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Their presence gives this area the nefarious distinction of having the highest number of migrant kidnappings.
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Hue residents, meanwhile, were incensed by Communist kidnappings and executions — but also by indiscriminate American firepower.
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Along with attacks from murderers on motorcycles, health workers have been targeted with kidnappings and bombs.
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In the years after the Chibok girls' kidnappings, Boko Haram's tactics have grown even more horrific.
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But five years after the kidnappings, offers of rewards and officials' promises, many still remain missing.
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It has also seen an increase in kidnappings as asylum-seekers have flocked to the area.
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But forced migration, murders and kidnappings by ISIS have reduced the community to fewer than 200,000.
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Kidnappings fell briefly thereafter, dipping to 1,22016 in 22007, but they are starting to climb again.
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Focus on kidnappings Abu Sayyaf also made headlines for the killing of Canadian John Ridsdel last week.
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The university was at least indirectly affected by attacks and kidnappings by Taliban-linked insurgents last year.
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Under Baghdadi, ISIS earned a reputation for unconscionable brutality — including beheadings, terror attacks, kidnappings, and war crimes.
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At the summit everyone complains that security is worsening fast, swapping tales of warehouse robberies and kidnappings.
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The militias have also been accused of a host of abuses, including kidnappings and sectarian revenge killings.
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He is also battling to stem Boko Haram insurgencies and kidnappings in the north of the country.
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Security fears A rash of kidnappings and Taliban bombings have heightened security fears in the Afghan capital.
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In doing so it fanned secessionism, transforming peaceful protests into a vicious war, with kidnappings and beheadings.
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A flurry of unsolved murders and kidnappings for ransom has eroded Ugandans' trust in law enforcement bodies.
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This was the world Badwan retreated from: rocket and mortar fire, kidnappings and murders, siege and terror.
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According to the most recent crime survey by the national statistics office, 103,000 kidnappings occurred in 2014.
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He added that their investigations show that most of the kidnappings were staged by the victims themselves.
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Some still believe their neighbors were witches, while others call the kidnappings and assaults a terrible crime.
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After the 36-year civil war officially ended in 1996, widespread kidnappings for ransom terrorized the rich.
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The gang members were accused of committing vicious beatings, stabbings, kidnappings and murders in retaliation, Hanna said.
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Mr. Prabowo has played down the kidnappings, and noted that some of the victims later supported him.
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"We have had 36 kidnappings listed, and all of them are solved on our records," he said.
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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 attorney general leads investigations against corruption, drug and arms trafficking, murders and kidnappings, among other areas.
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Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for some of the Philippines' most brutal attacks, including kidnappings and beheadings.
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The armed group seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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And kidnappings of prominent figures and regular Nigerians alike have become common in parts of the country.
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"What will be next, rattles to battle kidnappings and party blowers against corruption?" one Twitter user wrote.
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How scammers fake a kidnapping "We've seen an uptick in virtual kidnappings in the past few years because the crime is lucrative and there's not a lot detection from law enforcement," Matthew Horton, the FBI's international violent crimes unit chief, who's been closely following virtual kidnappings, told CNN Business.
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Two U.S. officials said U.S. agencies had no evidence the Iranian government had any role in the kidnappings.
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Security fears A rash of kidnappings and Taliban bombings have heightened security fears in Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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Ahmad said that after the kidnappings, students had been drilled in how to respond to a potential attack.
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Mexico's National Public Safety Secretariat registered 682 homicides in Veracruz from January through March, along with 122 kidnappings.
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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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Though Almaguer did not attribute the kidnappings to New Generation, he said that a criminal group was responsible.
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The guerrillas were unpopular after years of militant posturing, massacres, kidnappings, land mines and the recruitment of children.
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Of all the kidnappings that occurred during the Dirty War, what made you want to investigate this one?
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International aid organizations have faced a spate of kidnappings this year, including several foreigners snatched from downtown Kabul.
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A long list of kidnappings, robberies, rapes and murders, each distinguished by its own unique form of cruelty.
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His book We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnappings, Hostages and Ransom is out this month.
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Security has emerged as a top concern after a string of killings, kidnappings and robberies in recent days.
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The kidnappings and ransom negotiations provide jolts of suspense, as does the larger narrative of Arquímedes's unraveling ambitions.
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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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Separatists have carried out kidnappings and targeted killings of police officers and local officials, and have burned schools.
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With the extradition law they want to make such kidnappings legal, and bring Chinese law to Hong Kong.
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In recent months, the Congolese military has conducted operations against rebel groups, and kidnappings and violence remain common.
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Abu Sayyaf, which has only about four hundred fighters, has conducted a series of kidnappings, beheadings, and bombings.
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Both of those women were eventually released unharmed, with police saying the kidnappings were most likely financially motivated.
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The kidnappings, which riveted a global audience at the time, seem all but forgotten by the outside world.
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AQI was responsible for kidnappings, executions, and suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad, Anbar province, and other areas of Iraq.
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The islands of Basilan and Jolo are the strongholds of the Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings.
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The case will be prosecuted in Sacramento County, where nine of the kidnappings and two of the murders occurred.
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Those include poisonings, unfortunate transfiguration, a racket (tennis equipment not acceptable), murder, kidnappings, plague and/or enhanced weather phenomena.
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Once notorious as a hotspot for kidnappings on behalf of al-Qaeda, it may now be Yemen's safest city.
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Abu Sayyaf is a militant organization notorious for kidnappings and extremist factions and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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Kidnappings split the lives of victims and their loved ones in two: one minute here and the next, gone.
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Al Qaeda-linked Al-Mourabitoun group has claimed responsibility for the Elliotts' kidnappings and the attacks in the capital.
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It said 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings took place in the Gulf of Guinea.
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It said Qado is the leader of the 30th Brigade militia which engaged in extortion, illegal arrests, and kidnappings.
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Journalistic equipment was destroyed, there were kidnappings of journalists who were threatened, intimidated, put into military or police cars.
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In La Paz, "express kidnappings" are common, where tourists are forced to withdraw money from ATMS and then robbed.
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Cheung Tze-keung — also known as the "Big Spender" — was a gangster who specialized in high-profile ransom kidnappings.
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To many Colombians who had endured years of kidnappings and killings by the rebels, the agreement was too lenient.
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His home is in the central region of Ghazni where security has been fragile and where kidnappings are common.
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"The Abu Sayyaf are seasoned negotiators and look at kidnappings as commercial transactions," Mr. Williams said in an email.
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The kidnappings were probably leverage for the upcoming talks, said Muhibullah Sharifzai, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor.
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Since early last year, he said, there have been more than 20 similar kidnappings along highways in the region.
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Apart from taxes, oil sales, antiquities smuggling and ransom from kidnappings were also sources of income for Islamic State.
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The Cameroonian army has accused Anglophone separatists of carrying out the kidnappings, but a separatist spokesman has denied involvement.
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Many stay in shelters in Laredo's Mexican sister city of Nuevo Laredo, which is rife with crime and kidnappings.
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Sleeper cells in Iraq have staged a scatter-gun campaign of kidnappings and killings to undermine the Baghdad government.
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It has waged a five-decade war against the government, engaging in bombings, kidnappings, extortion and sabotage of oil pipelines.
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Around this time, Colombia saw a large spike in the number of kidnappings, according to the country's victim services unit.
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In "Smarter Faster Better," he uses example of plane crashes, assembly-line miracles, kidnappings and more to prove his point.
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For example, Borno State—in which the Chibok kidnappings occurred—only has a net secondary school attendance of 29 percent.
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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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The U.S. State Department condemned the Presbyterian school kidnappings and called for the immediate safe return of students and staff.
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At the height of its terror campaign, the armed group seized territory, attacked government forces and conducted high-profile kidnappings.
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Abu Sayyaf can score a quick payoff through kidnappings and use the funds to finance broader terror operations, he said.
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The number of kidnappings nationwide fell 24.5 percent from 2014, the lowest level since 2008, while extortion dropped 12.6 percent.
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Several kidnappings have occurred along the road in recent years - one victim, last July, was Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner.
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Kidnappings, especially by Mindanao-based militants of Indonesian nationals, has also been a key issue in moving the initiative forward.
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The company's mines in the two provinces have been hit by a series of attacks and kidnappings in recent months.
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After landing at Kaduna, passengers travel on guarded buses along a road where kidnappings have taken place in recent years.
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But it was one of a widespread rash of kidnappings at that time, one which has long since ebbed away.
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Even so, the official number is clearly too low: in 2014 Canada recorded nearly 80% more kidnappings than Mexico did.
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The kidnappings led to the social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls, but only about 50 of the girls have managed to escape.
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In addition, Taliban groups and others including Islamic State carried out kidnappings and "indiscriminate" attacks against civilians, the report said.
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The group's fighters have burned villages, mosques and churches; carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings; and killed soldiers.
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Additionally, the Afghan Taliban's leadership is based in Quetta, and infighting, militant-driven assassinations and kidnappings have scarred the city.
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One after another, the viewer is assailed by news of kidnappings, killing of magistrates, jurists, and journalists, and train bombings.
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The U.S. State Department has issued its highest travel warning for Tamaulipas, citing murders, kidnappings, sexual assaults and gang violence.
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Even though cartel-related violence and kidnappings remain a concern for travelers, a second bonanza has begun at El Diente.
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Through kidnappings, beheadings and the occasional bombing, Abu Sayyaf has terrorized the region for years, targeting foreigners and locals alike.
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Some of the Iraqis, on the other hand, are described as criminal gangs which make money through kidnappings for ransom.
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Lee urged his soldiers to avoid "the perpetuation of barbarous outrages upon the unarmed," but did not stop the kidnappings.
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In Tamaulipas, intercepting buses is a common tactic, says Leutert, who co-authored a report analyzing migrant kidnappings last year.
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Tourists are starting to return for desert tours after years of staying away following a series of kidnappings in 2009.
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In 1353, a record 1,700 kidnappings took place, according to data from the Mexican National System of Public Security (SNSP).
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He was accused of plotting kidnappings after writing online about eating his wife, but his conviction was overturned in 2014.
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They entered the drug business, and committed horrific crimes, including massacres, kidnappings, rapes, forced recruiting of child soldiers and much more.
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But the threat of violence still haunted them there as the population skyrocketed and assaults, kidnappings and killings grew with it.
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The suspected Golden State Killer will face additional charges for 13 kidnappings in two Northern California counties, officials announced on Tuesday.
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Besides the spate of kidnappings, the group has also pursued a ruthless campaign of bombing marketplaces throughout Nigeria and neighboring countries.
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"The number of reported kidnappings in Tamaulipas is among the highest in Mexico," the latest warning said in April this year.
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Edens made up several stories of fictitious kidnappings to convince T-Mobile to hand over the location information, court records add.
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Kidnappings over the last 15 years have made the Abu Sayyaf militants notorious, with extorted ransoms running into millions of dollars.
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He also got millions in frozen Iranian assets after a U.S. court found Tehran culpable of funding kidnappings and other acts.
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The kidnappings prompted a strong social media reaction, with the phrase #bringbackourgirls tweeted around 3.3 million times by mid-May 2014.
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That abduction and others have alarmed foreign residents in Afghanistan, where kidnappings seemed a relatively minor risk until a year ago.
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The Afghan police believe that many of the kidnappings of foreigners have been carried out by criminal gangs motivated by ransom.
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He was arrested on 17 counts, including numerous murders and kidnappings while he allegedly oversaw the multibillion-dollar international Sinaloa cartel.
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This, despite no effective resolution to the murders, rapes and kidnappings which forced these people to flee in the first place.
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The government with which the Guggenheim is working is said by human rights organizations to practice torture and kidnappings of dissidents.
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In his own mind, everything he does — the kidnappings, the beatings, the occasional murder — is an expression of his essential rectitude.
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And in India, fake stories on WhatsApp about child kidnappings led mobs to murder more than a dozen people this year.
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The kidnappings continued even this month, when the group said it had downed a civilian helicopter and taken three more hostages.
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But fraud may have been the least of her crimes: Levin uncovers a far darker past including possible kidnappings and murders.
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In doing so, Barr changed the department's position — in a 1980 legal opinion, the government said that such kidnappings were unlawful.
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Boko Haram — whose name translates to "Western education is forbidden" — has menaced the region with kidnappings, suicide bombings and sexual slavery.
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In addition to facing violence, kidnappings, and discrimination, some immigrants live on the streets and rely on donations to feed themselves.
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A number of women and women's groups report kidnappings, detentions, disappearances and other human rights violations by armed actors in Syria.
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But Meyer says she sees it as part of a "continuation of kidnappings" that Mexican authorities haven't done enough to investigate.
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The Iraqi parliament's human rights committee has demanded the government investigate "assassinations and kidnappings" of activists and bloggers, including Rustum's death.
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Without a known foreign source of funds, Abu Sayyaf has survived mostly on ransom kidnappings, extortion and other acts of banditry.
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The most common form of attack was shootings in South Sudan, aerial bombardment by state forces in Syria and kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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Three weeks after the kidnappings, gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the campus and killed 12 people, including students, security guards and police.
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Under the guise of fighting traffickers, police and military commit kidnappings, torture, and murder, while the power of the cartels only grows.
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FamilyTreeDNA's terms of service are now similar to those at GEDmatch, restricting law enforcement use to investigating homicides, sexual assaults, and kidnappings.
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In the decades since, the armed group has seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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However, many in towns across Mexico remember Guzman better for his squads of hitmen who committed thousands of murders, kidnappings and decapitations.
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Abu Sayyaf militants, notorious for kidnappings, beheadings and extortion, operate on remote Muslim islands in the south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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ISIS has claimed strings of suicide attacks, car bombings, and kidnappings across Iraq in recent months, targeting both military units and civilians.
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It has suffered shutdowns caused by security problems in the past, including raids, kidnappings and blockages by tribesmen and state-paid guards.
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Everyday violence, from revenge killings to ethnic violence to kidnappings for ransom, became completely normal for my friends and family in Iraq.
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It says Guzman and other members of the Sinaloa cartel employed hit men who carried out murders, kidnappings and acts of torture.
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It was responsible for most of the 220,000 deaths due to conflict and thousands of kidnappings seen over the past five decades.
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Earlier this month it warned Americans against traveling to Somalia because of widespread terrorist and criminal activity, including kidnappings, bombings and murders.
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In addition, there are oil-fueled militancies in the Delta to the south and banditry and kidnappings through much of the country.
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Those who stayed recount the loss of relatives killed in fighting, detained by security forces, or abducted in tit-for-tat kidnappings.
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ISIS-K already is believed to be responsible for suicide and small-arms attacks and kidnappings, targeting civilians and Afghan government officials.
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"Komnas HAM was in charge, and it seemed to me that they focused more on the shootings and kidnappings," she told me.
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But the party is also accused of exercising influence through gangs engaged in racketeering, kidnappings for ransom and targeted killings in Karachi.
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In 1950, the FBI had 6,85033 agents working mostly bank robberies, stolen-car cases, check-kiting cases and occasional kidnappings and extortions.
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Their members committed kidnappings and murders; they took over the commerce of towns, and then forced residents to pay taxes to them.
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There were laws against taking out too much money at once, but kidnappings were common enough that the banks made an exception.
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Military and police have been dispatched to tackle criminal gangs blamed for a spate of killings and kidnappings over the last year.
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Security experts say the rebels are motivated less by Islamist ideology and more by the tens of millions of dollars from kidnappings.
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The kidnappings are usually carried out by lesser-known insurgent factions or criminal gangs, who then sell the victims to the Haqqanis.
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Kidnappings are not uncommon in Nigeria, the country where Boko Haram's abduction of nearly 23 schoolgirls shocked the world's conscience in 2014.
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France: An outburst of attacks against Roma this week was fueled by false reports of child kidnappings that circulated on social media.
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He told the newsmagazine Stern months after his release that as long as governments continued to pay ransom, the kidnappings would continue.
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"Kidnappings were normally four or five days in duration," the retired deputy inspector George Duke, who oversaw the investigation, said last week.
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Between 21 and 2006, there were about 400 kidnappings a year, which, while still a lot, pales in comparison to current numbers.
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The Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell also says it is responding more quickly to kidnappings and taking over the management of the negotiations earlier.
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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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Rights groups have also accused the Malian army of conducting extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, torture and arbitrary arrests against suspected sympathizers of jihadist groups.
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From 256-221, two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occurred there, and the FARC controlled up to a third of the country's territory.
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Crimes committed by armed groups in Jammu and Kashmir range from kidnappings and killings of civilians to sexual violence, the U.N. report said.
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Saturday's attack is the latest in a rash of kidnappings and bombings in Kabul, which have heightened security fears in the nation's capital.
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Rouzek&aposs militia became notorious for kidnappings and street killings, with one online video showing its masked members shooting a kneeling, blindfolded man.
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Hapilon is known to be a member of the Abu Sayyaf group based in the Mindanao region and known for kidnappings and extortion.
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Related: There's a Spike in Violence in Mexico's Most Violent State That control began with kidnappings of shop owners and workers in Chilpancingo.
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However, many in towns across Mexico remember Guzman better for his squads of hit men who committed thousands of murders, kidnappings and decapitations.
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And the investigation into the kidnappings of Lena Garber, Sophie Giroux, and Alice Webster has been a wild, exhilarating and heart-breaking ride.
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Duarte, who presided over a spike in gang violence and kidnappings in Veracruz, as well a doubling of state debt, has denied wrongdoing.
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Passengers who landed there were transported to the capital on guarded buses along a road where kidnappings have taken place in recent years.
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It includes express kidnappings, which are counted as robberies in official statistics; sometimes victims themselves confuse robberies and cases of extortion with kidnapping.
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Frustration has mounted at its inability to tackle everyday problems including a liquidity crisis, frequent kidnappings, power cuts and a failing health system.
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Resistance snipers have shot civilians in Houthi-controlled areas and carried out summary killings and kidnappings, according to human rights workers in Taiz.
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Our region held a 600-mile front line against ISIS, yet no significant terror attacks or kidnappings have occurred in the last decade.
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Many Colombians remain angry at the FARC, infamous for kidnappings, bombings and displacements, and believe its members should be in prison, not campaigning.
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These range from attacks on Coptic businesses to kidnappings for ransom to regular protests at Coptic churches that devolve into violent mob attacks.
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During an attempt at rapprochement in the early 2000s between the two countries, Kim Jong Il acknowledged 13 of the kidnappings and apologized.
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As a result, by 2002, there were 3,000 kidnappings in the country and over 28,000 murders in a population of about 85033 million.
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Firefights with the police and military, roadside bomb attacks and kidnappings take place throughout much of Mindanao but rarely happen in Davao City.
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Much like the FARC, the E.L.N. was founded in the 1960s and financed itself through kidnappings and taxes on the lucrative cocaine trade.
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But in 1999, the Chilean Supreme Court carved out an exception for unsolved kidnappings and for cases in which bodies were never found.
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On Saturday, 18 Philippine soldiers were killed in a daylong battle with Abu Sayyaf, the rebel group believed to be behind the kidnappings.
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Plagued by kidnappings, Reynosa is so dangerous for migrants that locals advise new arrivals against any trip alone out of the two shelters.
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Ms. Torrealba complained that the government had abandoned the city to organized crime, and it was now rocked by killings, extortions and kidnappings.
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Cleveland kidnappings On May 173, 217, screams for help were heard coming from the cracked door of a home in a Cleveland neighborhood.
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Hamas has carried out kidnappings, suicide bombings and rocket attacks on civilian targets, which the Muslim Brotherhood considers legitimate resistance to Israeli occupation.
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All sides were accused of atrocities — kidnappings, rapes and summary executions — that bred deep-seated animosities across the country and even within families.
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Kidnappings in Kabul have been carried out by criminal gangs, as well as by the Taliban and their extremist branch, the Haqqani Network.
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Cameroon Yaoundé Southwest By The New York Times The total number of hostages, and who was behind the kidnappings, were unclear Monday afternoon.
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Even as news of the student kidnappings spread, it was unclear exactly how many students had been taken or who had abducted them.
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Those protesting the students' kidnappings have faced reprisals, according to Laetitia Bader, a senior researcher in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch.
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That sense of security has gone now because of the Taliban campaign of bombings in the capital and their targeted kidnappings of foreigners.
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Campaigners from Bring Back Our Girls movement say Boko Haram used similar tactics in the 2014 Chibok kidnappings for the Dapchi school raid.
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This year, authorities in Chechnya, a semiautonomous region in Russia, began a violent crackdown on gay men that included kidnappings, torture and killings.
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President Buhari described the kidnappings in Dapchi as a "national disaster" and deployed troops and surveillance aircraft in search of the missing students.
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In the last couple of weeks, however, there have been an increasing number of assaults, kidnappings and threats targeting activists by other groups.
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Security forces had dismantled what he called a dangerous criminal group called "The Anthony" and found a safe house being used for kidnappings.
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Moreno did not specify which terrorist actions he was referring to, but the ELN have continued kidnappings and pipeline bombings during the talks.
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In Mexico, which is heading toward a pivotal presidential election in July, this has meant a surge in kidnappings over the past decade.
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Express kidnappings made up 66 percent of all kidnapping crimes in 2016, according to the National Institute for Statistics and Geography in Mexico.
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The copy obtained by VICE News indicates that some rules were not followed leading up to the kidnappings at the hotel in Monterrey.
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The men's teams have faced their own share of dangers on the roads to Kabul, where kidnappings at gunpoint are anything but unusual.
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Gang leaders operate from behind bars, using smuggled cellphones to oversee street-level drug dealing and extortion, and to order kidnappings and murders.
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He's proud of the audacity and perseverance it took to bring down the cartel, and he knows he helped prevent murders and kidnappings.
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Duarte, who presided over a spike in gang violence and kidnappings in Veracruz, as well a doubling of state debt, has denied any wrongdoing.
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In addition to Sierra's murder, Garcia-Torres was found guilty of three separate attempted kidnappings of women in grocery store parking lots in 2009.
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Several Indonesian sailors were taken hostage earlier this year by suspected members of militant group Abu Sayyaf, a group known for piracy and kidnappings.
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Long associated with poppy production and heroin distribution, it has used kidnappings, murders, and extortion to vanquish critics and exert control over the region.
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The 2017 ruling was in a case brought by U.S. victims of bombings, killings and kidnappings that U.S. courts ruled Iran was responsible for.
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During Buhari's presidency, the Boko Haram insurgency has lost most of the territory it held, but it still carries out suicide bombings and kidnappings.
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Compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau, the report pools together data on thefts, assaults, homicides and kidnappings from police precincts across the country.
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Anadarko said last week it was monitoring the situation after a spate of beheadings and kidnappings but declined to comment on specific security issues.
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According to the complaint (PDF), BPD used Stingrays 4,700 times over the course of nine years to investigate everything from kidnappings to petty thefts.
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Muñoz suspects it has begun working with smaller groups of petty criminals in El Salto, leading to an increase in kidnappings, thefts, and rapes.
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But hundreds of jihadists are hiding out in the east, where they slip into SDF-controlled areas to carry out attacks, assassinations and kidnappings.
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Of those cases, 91 percent were classified as "endangered runaways," and only 1 percent were classified as kidnappings carried out by non-family members.
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However, many in towns and villages across Mexico remember Guzman better for his squads of assassins who committed thousands of murders, kidnappings and decapitations.
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The group emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s when its members terrorized West Germany through a series of kidnappings, bombings and killings.
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Several hostages had been freed, after paying ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, a group known for kidnappings and beheadings, including two Canadians this year.
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The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, has demanded 50 million pesos ($1.09 million) for the freedom of the Indonesian crew.
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"Despite the persecution, intimidation and even kidnappings of those who fight for a better Venezuela, the work has not stopped," Rosales wrote on Twitter.
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Terrorist kidnappings by Islamic extremists and insurgents have been a deadly problem here in the southern Philippines as far back as anyone can remember.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Ugandan activists are protesting a spate of kidnappings and murders in the country by dumping coffins outside the country's parliament building.
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The kidnappings of foreigners in Kabul have been concentrated in the Taimani neighborhood, where many foreign aid workers and journalists have homes and offices.
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Sunni Arab civilians in the province are increasingly reporting kidnappings and murders by the militias, accounts that American and Iraqi officials say are credible.
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Abu Sayyaf is responsible for most of the kidnappings at sea in Southeast Asia, but several other criminal gangs also operate in those waters.
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The recent kidnappings have alarmed the Indonesian government in Jakarta, in particular, because Indonesian tugboats have been the primary targets of Abu Sayyaf militants.
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The kidnappings were part of a string of events that culminated in a devastating war that summer between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
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He and a dozen of his neighbors armed themselves with machetes and clubs to stop rapes, kidnappings and killings on their street, he said.
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Violence in Colombia is at the lowest level in 50 years, partly thanks to a unilateral ceasefire in which FARC reduced attacks and kidnappings.
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Founded in the 1990s as a separatist group, Abu Sayyaf has, in recent years, degenerated into a criminal organization specializing in bombings and kidnappings.
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The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia members, wrested control of the territory from Shabaab jihadists after a number of kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
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The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia, wrested control of the territory from al Shabaab jihadists after a spate of kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that in the Middle East/North Africa region alone there have been more than 100 kidnappings since 2013.
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Millions of dollars in ransom has been paid, and some residents in Dapchi wondered whether money might be the motive behind the kidnappings there.
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They have been raising money by carrying out kidnappings for ransom and extorting "taxes" from local officials, often skimming a cut of rebuilding contracts.
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Kirchner's government charged that the firm was sold at a fire-sale price with the help of threats and kidnappings by the military junta.
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Elmer Martinez, known by the alias "Killer," is accused of ordering the kidnappings and murders of two minors in 2016, according to court documents.
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Together, their testimony led to 100 convictions and helped cut homicides, kidnappings and extortion in the state, at least for a time, officials said.
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She's written and directed a short film, Fantasy Girls, about child sex trafficking and kidnappings in Reno, and has several more scripts stashed away.
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He previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI, and worked on an FBI team responsible for investigating terrorist attacks and kidnappings.
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Mr. Buhari's efforts so far have failed to quell battles over land between farmers and herders, or armed gangs carrying out kidnappings and killings.
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"We are fed up with all the kidnappings and homicides," Commander Garra, one of the new group's leaders, told the local news agency Quadratín.
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Paul Gosar (R-AZ) garbled Lott's study in a Facebook post, warning that "DACA-aged illegals" commit 213 percent of kidnappings in the state.
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Kidnappings are driven primarily by conditions of general instability in countries such as Iraq, Syria and Yemen, rather than by the targeting of particular nationalities.
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Some areas are now in the hands of a mishmash of militias, which control the population often through intimidation, fear, and violent extortion through kidnappings.
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They have already survived kidnappings, arrest attempts and cartel infighting to establish themselves as the city's most prominent traffickers, with the support of cartel elders.
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It has invaded an EU neighbor, launched cyber-attacks and cross-border kidnappings against Estonia, and violated NATO airspace all along the alliance's Eastern border.
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Many Colombians remain angry at the FARC, infamous for kidnappings, bombings and displacements, and believe they should be in prison, not running for congressional seats.
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Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, is one of the most brutal militant groups in Muslim south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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The Mexican drug lord, 60, was arrested on 17 counts, including numerous murders and kidnappings while we allegedly oversaw the multibillion-dollar international Sinaloa cartel.
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Benji, scruffy solver of crimes, quasher of kidnappings, sniffer of butts, is coming to Netflix, so it's time to rewatch the original before it drops.
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Overall, Asia led the way with 125 instances of piracy, while West Africa had 95: Those figures included armed robbery, hijackings, kidnappings and ship boardings.
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Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is due in Chibok on Thursday for the anniversary of the kidnappings, Nkeki said, complaining the issue has become politicized.
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Some of his charges have moved on and are able to talk about the kidnappings without any emotional reaction, he said, but they remain vulnerable.
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In trying to solve this puzzle, it's worth noting that Colombia had a big spike in kidnappings in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.
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Mujica, now 83, was a leader of the Tupamaros guerrilla movement that carried out robberies, political kidnappings and bombings against the government in the 1970s.
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The rewards, starting at 200,000 yuan, are for tips about attacks, kidnappings, murders and other terrorist acts, the Xinjiang government's news portal, Tianshan Net, said.
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He previously served as a supervisory special agent with the FBI, and worked on an FBI team responsible for investigating terrorist attacks and kidnappings overseas.
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He previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI, and worked on an FBI team responsible for investigating terrorist attacks and kidnappings overseas.
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Among the most high-profile kidnappings was that of Ingrid Betancourt, a presidential candidate who was held for six years before being rescued in 2008.
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Kidnappings were more common in Igboland than anywhere else, and it was well known that it was often your own relatives who were the kidnappers.
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The State Department on Monday urged United States citizens not to visit Niger's border regions in a travel warning that cited kidnappings by terrorist organizations.
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The small but violent Islamist Abu Sayyaf, based in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic Philippines, is known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion.
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The complaint reports that at total of 1,466 workers have experienced threats or acts of violence, including 85033 assassinations, six kidnappings and 955 death threats.
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Last week, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan warned of the danger of a new spiral of violence following recent suicide attacks and highway kidnappings.
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Pakistan sees thousands of cases of violence against women every year, from rape and acid attacks to sexual assault, kidnappings and so-called honor killings.
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Even petty offenses can be interesting, like the wave of kidnappings of lawn ornaments for ransom in the northeastern United States a few years ago.
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It has forced around 60,000 migrants, many fleeing violence and persecution, to wait in Mexico where they have been subject to kidnappings and cartel violence.
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Some IS fighters still hold out in Syria's remote central desert, and in Iraqi cities they have slipped into the shadows, staging shootings or kidnappings.
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Later, as a college president, Lee was also mostly unwilling to discipline students involved in attempted lynchings and kidnappings of black women who lived nearby.
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Although most such kidnappings in Kabul are the work of criminal gangs, he said he believed that the attack was carried out by the Taliban.
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In January, the insurgents announced that mobile phone companies must pay them a 10 percent tax or risk kidnappings and more attacks on their towers.
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With the Mexican government struggling to contain crime and violence, and ramshackle camps full of vulnerable migrants cropping up on the border, kidnappings have spiked.
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The policy has since been extended farther east to more dangerous Mexican cities like Nuevo Laredo, where migrants have been subjected to kidnappings and violence.
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But an Amnesty International report on the kidnappings released this week accused the Nigerian army of failing to act on advance warnings of the raid.
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The incident comes amid a spate of kidnappings around Kunduz, with at least 200 people abducted by the Taliban on the roads near the city.
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But for many criminal groups, the risks inherent in these kidnappings — the publicity and police attention they attracted — often weren't enough to justify the reward.
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Police are often involved in the kidnappings, either by conducting them jointly with criminal groups or by taking their cut and looking the other way.
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This article was originally published on VICE Sweden Kidnappings might not be that common in Sweden, but when they do happen, they are pretty fucked up.
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Kaduna lies about 160 km (100 miles) to the north of the capital and is linked by a pot-holed road where kidnappings have taken place.
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During a visit to Nigeria's northeast in April, VICE News heard multiple reports of killings and kidnappings still happening in more rural parts of the region.
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Others say that negotiations with the rebels -- who have been at war with the government for decades and are responsible for bombings and kidnappings -- are repugnant.
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The kidnappings resonate strongly with the Japanese public and Mr. Abe has made it one of his personal priorities to seek the return of the abductees.
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The initial limits were prompted by a series of mob attacks and killings in India, set off by the spread of false information about child kidnappings.
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Muhammadu Buhari, who defeated Jonathan in a 2015 election, ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in January, but there have been no reported developments since.
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"Since August 2014, ISIS has targeted Yazidis in Iraq and Syria through forced displacement, executions, kidnappings, and the sexual enslavement of women and girls," she added.
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Another Kenyan man, who asked not to be identified, said his family was also concerned about security in a nation where kidnappings for ransom occur frequently.
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"As they cannot take the interim president prisoner, so they seek out people closest to him, threaten relatives, carry out kidnappings," Guaido told a news conference.
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The UNHCR fears that the escalation could engulf large parts of the province, amid reports of killings, kidnappings and sexual violence unleashed against civilians, he said.
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In recent months, several high profile Nigerians, foreign nationals and others have fallen prey to gangs orchestrating a wave of kidnappings in the West African nation.
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There has been an increase in attacks and kidnappings by Islamic State militants over the past few weeks near the area where the women were taken.
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The kidnappings come after the governments of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia agreed last month to carry out coordinated patrols to secure the region's busy waterways.
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It's no joke, at one point, one the biggest dealers in Australia was operating from a maximum-security yard, organizing keys and kidnappings in every state.
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The Mexican drug lord, 59, was arrested on 17 counts including numerous murders and kidnappings during his time allegedly overseeing the multibillion-dollar international Sinaloa cartel.
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Rights groups have denounced the kidnappings of several social media activists over the past year as attempts to intimidate and silence critics of Pakistan's security establishment.
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In the more than 20123 years since then, the armed group has seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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Some doubt that the recent security agreements to counter the kidnappings will be effective or that the countries will carry through on their pledges of cooperation.
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The FARC eventually turned to the profitable cocaine trade to finance its insurgency, while shaking down rural people and terrorizing city dwellers with kidnappings and killings.
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Abu Sayyaf is holding 21 captives, most of them foreign, and despite an ongoing military offensive to wipe them out, its piracy and kidnappings continue unabated.
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As women and girls had to walk further to fetch water, the number of kidnappings and rapes more than doubled over that period, local women said.
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But the road from Chilpanzingo to Tlapa—the main route for transporting opium out of the region—is "hell", Mosso says, with many shootings and kidnappings.
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Lafarge's local managers reported the kidnappings to Paris and spent around €200,000 to secure their release, according to the internal inquiry and testimony of former executives.
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There was no claim of responsibility, but Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group, has used mass kidnappings of students as a tactic to terrorize the population.
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He bankrolled his operations through kidnappings for ransom, pioneering a business model that was later adopted by the terrorist group in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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He directly accused her of responsibility for Boko Haram's schoolgirl kidnappings, calling her an "apologist" for one of the most brutal terrorist groups on the planet.
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And in various pockets throughout the country, like a major highway between Kaduna and Abuja, kidnappings of prominent figures and regular Nigerians alike have become common.
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But kidnappings and thefts in Caracas have prompted some Chinese executives working in the country to move to Colombia to escape the problems, sources have said.
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Officials said on Wednesday that they had organized a group to investigate the kidnappings, and that federal and regional security forces were collaborating in the search.
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Nigeria's government has long struggled with the Islamist group Boko Haram, which is responsible for multiple kidnappings and dozens of attacks that amount to mass slaughter.
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Now, the headlines are coming to grips with the rampant crime that has become a steady drumbeat in the city: kidnappings, robbery at gunpoint, extortion, murder.
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Women in South Africa, a nation with a history of violence and profound inequality, have endured a spate of rapes, kidnappings and murders in recent years.
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The 15,896 crimes included in the case cover murders - including those of a senator and a bishop - kidnappings, forced recruitment, displacement, bombings and gender-based violence.
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They are believed to be held in the jungle on Jolo island, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, who are known for bombs, beheadings and kidnappings.
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Kidnappings of foreigners are common in the Delta region, which holds most of the crude oil whose sales make about 70 percent of Nigeria's national income.
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Benson, 38, says he stumbled on making the film about the missing girls out of curiosity to find out more about the infamous kidnappings for himself.
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Hundreds of kidnappings were reported in the border state last year, although activists say the true tally of missing people is likely underreported and actually much higher.
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What's for certain is that he's responsible for a huge swath of the global drug trade—along with the routinized kidnappings and murders endemic to that world.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was already working on plans to set up the force, but after the Quetta kidnappings the process was "accelerated", according to one regional official.
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The group found more than 100 cases of people returned under the program reporting rapes, kidnappings, sexual exploitation, or assault, according to a report released this month.
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It appears calm today, though there are signs of trouble returning, particularly kidnappings, which he attributes to smaller cartels squabbling over areas once controlled by the Caballeros.
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The five Afghan staff were stopped and abducted as they were traveling by road in the province, which has seen frequent kidnappings and murders on its highways.
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A majority of them were kidnappings, however, rather than the oil tanker hijackings for cargo theft that accounted for the majority of piracy assaults in previous years.
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In Venezuela, for example, four-fifths of respondents said they do not feel safe walking home alone—kidnappings and extortion are a common occurrence in the country.
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Under the peace deal signed in 2006, both sides pledged to investigate and prosecute cases of human rights violations - from torture and rape to kidnappings and killings.
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Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed tweeted that the Taliban had carried out the attack, the latest of several kidnappings and bombings blamed on the hardline religious terrorist group.
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The Houthi takeover prompted many countries to close their embassies and aid agencies to sharply reduce their staff, reducing the number of foreigners - and kidnappings - in Yemen.
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In an unrelated case, Guzman has pleaded not guilty to charges that his cartel laundered billions of dollars and oversaw a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings.
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Knight's appearance on Dr. Phil will run before the May 1 release of her new memoir, Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings.
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Since then the group has continued to carry out suicide bombings, gun raids and kidnappings in northeastern Nigeria as well as in neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
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Despite widespread relief at an end to the bloodshed and kidnappings of the past 52 years, the deal has caused divisions within Latin America's fourth-largest economy.
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With ongoing security threats, bombings, killings, kidnappings and suicide attacks, and years of repressive regimes and wars, the situation for women remains difficult, especially in rural areas.
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The field, in Libya's remote southwest, has suffered shutdowns caused by security problems in the past, including raids, kidnappings and blockages by tribesmen and state-paid guards.
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When he reemerged in 277 with Relapse, he was rapping discursively, in faux-Arabic accents, about imagined kidnappings and the biographical minutiae of 20th-century serial killers.
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Herrera has said he wrote it after the outbreak of swine flu, and it also clearly treats the kidnappings, disappearances and murders too common in contemporary Mexico.
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Indonesia's foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, said in a statement after the meeting that the latest crisis showed the importance of working together to fight piracy and kidnappings.
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Lamin K. Sanyang, did not deny that soldiers participated in the kidnappings, adding that he was waiting with the rest of the country to hear witnesses testify.
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US citizens are told not to travel to Marawi City, Minadanao, or the Sulu Archipelago due to crime, bombings, civil unrest, and kidnappings on land and sea.
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In the more than five decades since it started, the armed group has seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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Five of six mass kidnappings verified by Reuters took place on a 160-km stretch near Sirte in March, June, July, August and September of last year.
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Felina was dangerous to the cartels: a relentless activist, a Twitter user who denounced kidnappings, shootings, killings, and all the activities that occurred in the Reynosa region.
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Any violence was traditionally directed mostly at the authorities and each other, but since 2009 the cartels have increasingly targeted the general population with extortion and kidnappings.
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The province has been notoriously dangerous for aid workers and reporters, and there was a spate of kidnappings by some of the rebel groups in recent years.
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A month after the kidnappings in Dapchi, the terrorist group returned most of the girls and told local residents to stop sending their female children to school.
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But even as the president says he intends to negotiate for their release, the kidnappings are threatening to become a major issue in next year's presidential election.
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The kidnappings took place in the Dara-i-Suf Payin district of Samangan Province, where trucks were transferring coal from the biggest coal mine in the country.
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The kidnappings are a way for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, to raise money and signal to the civilian population it remains a potent force.
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The group found more than 100 cases of people returned under the program alleging rapes, kidnappings, sexual exploitation, or assault, according to a report released this month.
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The Abu Ghraib abuses started a chain reaction of allegedly "retaliatory" cruelty against U.S. soldiers (and civilians) in the region, including rapes, kidnappings, public beheadings and lynchings.
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The hit men carried out hundreds of acts of violence, including murders, assaults, kidnappings, assassinations and acts of torture at the direction of Guzman, according to prosecutors.
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Al-Abadi ordered the Interior Ministry and Iraq's intelligence department to investigate the assassinations and kidnappings in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere, the ministry said in a statement.
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Al Shabaab frequently carries out attacks in Kenya in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia in 2011 after a series of cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
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Hezbollah began in the early 2628s as a small, clandestine terrorist organization backed by Iran that specialized in lethal attacks and kidnappings against U.S. personnel and interests.
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Christian von Wernich, a former police chaplain convicted in 2007 for his involvement in seven murders and 42 kidnappings, asked a judge to reconsider his life sentence.
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"According to the findings," Ms. Köhler said, he commanded a unit of about 10 fighters whose task was to prepare and carry out kidnappings, blackmail and killings.
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The Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, based in the southern Philippines, has carried out kidnappings in the region, beheading some hostages and extorting millions of dollars in ransoms.
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Rights groups have denounced the kidnappings of several social media activists over the past year as attempts to intimidate and silence critics of the Pakistan's security establishment.
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Parents accused former president Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's leader at the time of the kidnappings, of not doing enough to track down the girls and bring them home.
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Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for some of the worst attacks in the Philippines in recent decades, including kidnappings, bombings and beheadings of foreign and local hostages.
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Other kidnappings and killings continue too; in early April 12 women were abducted while fetching water — the vigilantes with them fled when confronted by Boko Haram fighters.
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Kidnappings for ransom targeting family members of wealthy people are common in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of nearly 200 million people and Africa&aposs most populous country.
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Priyanka Chopra's Quantico character has survived terrorist bombings, kidnappings, and some pretty intense battles on her hit ABC drama — and it looks like Chopra is just as tough!
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Tyrion's path to hand of the queen to Daenerys Targaryen is a messy one, but basically, after a few kidnappings, he lands in the fighting pits of Meereen.
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Passengers will take the journey of around 160 km (100 miles) to the capital on guarded buses, along a road where kidnappings have taken place in recent years.
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While her Bogotá neighbors largely live in the fear of bombings, kidnappings, and murder, Chula and her family live safe in the confines of a wealthy, gated community.
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Leaders of the FARC, now a political party, will be required to testify to the tribunals, recounting their part in killings, sexual violence, kidnappings, bombings and other crimes.
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The 2,000-strong ELN has increased oil pipeline bombings in recent months and continued kidnappings, in what many saw as an attempt to pressure the government into talks.
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Colombia's long, bumpy road to peace In the decades since, the armed group has seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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Yet experts say few, if any, of the 148 attacks, which included physical and sexual assault, bombings, shootings and kidnappings, have been independently investigated and satisfactory justice served.
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Howells and Vaisey, who were sentenced separately in state court on Tuesday, did not address the court before receiving 25-year terms each for the August 2014 kidnappings.
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Rebecca Samuel Yaga was one of dozens of parents of the Chibok schoolgirls who attended an inaugural lecture Friday to commemorate the three-year anniversary of their kidnappings.
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Fitzgerald and Harper were accused of going on a spree that included kidnappings and robberies in Alabama, Georgia and Florida, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement.
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Salic's lawyer, Dalonilang Parahiman, on Monday dismissed links between his client and the Maute group and said it was impossible the doctor had been involved in the kidnappings.
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Afghan and Western officials believe the men are being held by the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban that has carried out many other kidnappings.
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Kidnappings by criminal gangs or militants are common in Pakistan, and particularly in Karachi, a teeming metropolis of 20 million people plagued by political, ethnic and religious violence.
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Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed last month to increase maritime security after a rise in kidnappings at sea by militants suspected of being members of Abu Sayyaf.
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One of the factions is the New People's Army, an armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines that has a history of assassinations, kidnappings and attacks.
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Reports of killings, torture, rape and kidnappings by Mr. Kadyrov's paramilitary forces are numerous, and he has been personally implicated by human rights groups in several of them.
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The wave of murders, kidnappings and gang-related violence began during the administration of former president Felipe Calderon (2006-2012), who launched the government's war against drug cartels.
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The FBI I joined in 2202 was squarely fixed on tackling the threats it had expertly confronted for some eight decades — kidnappings, bank robberies, organized crime, and narcotics.
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"AQIM's first major kidnappings came in 2003, before it joined al-Qaeda, when it abducted 32 Western tourists," according to Yaya Fanusie and Alex Entz, the report's authors.
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Those were legion, the memo said, and included murders, acts of torture, kidnappings, prison breaks and an attempt to smuggle seven tons of cocaine in cans of jalapeños.
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In the past, the Chinese authorities at least have had to stoop to ugly, and manifestly illegal, kidnappings to get their hands on their opponents in the city.
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Cameroon School Kidnappings Are Reported Amid Secession Battle The school is in a part of Cameroon where separatists have been fighting the government to form their own country.
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The area where the kidnappings occurred is one of two English-speaking regions in the country where various factions of separatists want to form their own nation, Ambazonia.
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But the Sherman Oaks situation could have another unintended consequence, if it means that it causes pizza shop employees to take reports of kidnappings or abuse less seriously.
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And to help give this convoluted tale of one of the world's most famous kidnappings some semblance of a narrative bow, Fletcher Chace returns as our omniscient narrator.
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The city is filled with Iranian spies, secret agents and hit squads, local officials say, and it has been plagued by multiple assassinations and kidnappings in recent years.
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Northeastern Diyala has seen almost weekly Islamic State attacks in the last year, including ones using mortars and roadside bombs, as well as small arms attacks and kidnappings.
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But the tourist narrative often leaves out the impact of his bloody rise to power and the bribery, kidnappings and killings of anyone who dared defy the cartel.
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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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The group will present a petition to the International Criminal Court requesting an investigation into the kidnappings – and the regime's silence about the disappeared – as crimes against humanity.
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The deadly swoops by Peruvian cops on gangs of heavily-armed criminals on the point of perpetrating kidnappings and bank robberies looked like spectacularly effective policing — at the time.
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Kinnear notes that the most recent supply outages have been caused not only by a high-level political standoff in June, but also kidnappings by armed groups in July.
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Though Colombians want an end to bloodshed, many in the largely conservative country of 49 million are wary of forgiving the FARC for decades of bombings, kidnappings and displacements.
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Kidnappings for ransom occur in much of Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, but are particularly prevalent in the Niger Delta which produces the majority of the country's crude oil.
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Largely weakened by these attacks, Abu Sayyaf started to move from large-scale bombings to kidnappings, a move many analysts see as more profit-driven and criminal in intent.
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The 2,000-strong group has increased oil pipeline bombings in recent months and continued kidnappings in what many see as an attempt to pressure the government into beginning talks.
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Kidnappings and rapes are on the rise, robberies have gone up by more than 80 percent, and migrants are turning to shelters along the way to keep them safe.
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Abuja-bound passengers will have to fly to Kaduna and travel in buses, guarded by security, on a road where kidnappings have taken place in the past few years.
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They spent their careers reasoning with highly agitated people in hostage situations, kidnappings, and prison riots, and say that the strategies of crisis intervention can definitely apply to relationships.
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Going forward, Abu Sayyaf may be more concentrated on maritime kidnappings through the Celebes and Sulu Seas that are bordered by Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, according to Abuza.
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Gunmen killed Mayor Gisela Mota Saturday at her house in Temixco, one of several cities around Cuernavaca that have been struggling with kidnappings and extortions by organized crime gangs.
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As Laing becomes embroiled in an escalating series of indiscretions, including several affairs, kidnappings, and a murder, an increasingly violent tribalism takes hold on the residents in the building.
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A report by campaign group Human Right Watch last September accused the Malian military of conducting extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, torture and arbitrary arrests against suspected sympathizers of jihadist groups.
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Abu Sayyaf is a violent extremist group with a history of kidnappings-for-ransom and bombings that split from the separatist movement the Moro National Liberation Front in 1991.
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The seizure of the men on Friday was the latest in a series of kidnappings in the lawless waters and coastlines of the southern Philippines in the past year.
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Hiscox, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said gross written premiums rose to 1.86 billion pounds ($13 billion) in the nine months ended Sept.
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Activists decry indiscriminate police kidnappings and beatings, and the hashtag on Twitter generates images, although unverified, of bloodied youth in hospital beds and streets and residents pleading for help.
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The kidnappings sparked global outrage, with high-profile figures such as first lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai lending their weight to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
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Gabriel García Márquez attempted to reconcile the perception of Escobar in his book News of a Kidnapping—which detailed several prominent kidnappings carried out by Escobar's own Medellin Cartel.
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Exigent circumstances are allowed, though they are subject to automatic judicial review and must be used only in matters of absolute life or death, like kidnappings or bomb threats.
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FP spoke to a senior former U.S. intelligence official who insists there's no evidence that the American cases are not "true" renditions, like the kidnappings now seen in Australia.
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Kenya sent soldiers into Somalia in 2011 after raids in the border region and kidnappings that threatened the tourism industry in the region's biggest economy and wider regional destabilization.
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The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings, and extortion activities, is one of the most hardline Islamist rebel factions in the Muslim south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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Kenya sent soldiers into Somalia in 2011 after raids in the border region and kidnappings that threatened the tourism industry in the region's biggest economy and wider regional destabilisation.
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When Mr. López Obrador was mayor of Mexico City, organizers planned a march to protest the rising number of kidnappings, a tragic outcome of the nation's war on drugs.
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Fighting between H.T.S. and other rebel groups has left many civilians dead, and a spate of assassinations and kidnappings for ransom has left the local population fearful and angry.
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And the graphic news reports, the car bombs, the kidnappings, the ever-present fear in your gut that something terrible could happen to someone you love at any moment.
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General Sobejana identified the captors as members of the extremist Abu Sayyaf group, which has been blamed for a rash of high-profile kidnappings of foreigners in the past.
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Amnesty International, in a report last month, said it had recorded 260 security incidents, including kidnappings of civilians and violence between Cameroon's soldiers and armed Anglophone separatists, this year.
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But recent reports of drivers involved in sexual assaults and kidnappings put the basic premise of ride-sharing (essentially catching a ride with a stranger) in a different light.
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Amnesty International, in a report last month, said it had recorded 260 security incidents, including kidnappings of civilians and violence between Cameroon's soldiers and armed Anglophone separatists this year.
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Books tend to lie on the floor all round my side of the bed, frequently under it, and sometimes even in it (leading to mild complaints or occasional kidnappings).
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He has repeatedly been pronounced dead by authorities before resurfacing to plot attacks or kidnappings, including a raid on an Algerian gas plant that killed 40 workers in 2013.
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The proclamations keep coming even as Boko Haram has unleashed an unrelenting stream of suicide bombers on mosques and marketplaces, carried out high-profile kidnappings and attacked military convoys.
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Secuestro exprés, or "express kidnappings" — in which victims are taken for a short time until small payments are met — have become more common in recent years, according to Valdés.
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"At the end of March we started to receive reports about kidnappings and killings of gay men in Chechnya," said Svetlana Zakharova, communications manager at The Russian LGBT Network.
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Complications: kidnappings, elections The talks are due to open at 5:00 pm (2200 GMT) at the Hacienda Cashapamba, a Jesuit retreat some 30 kilometers (20 miles) outside Quito.
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Vicente Zambada Niebla -- who has admitted to passing along orders for murders and kidnappings -- is the son of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the alleged current leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
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"Whenever there's a call I show up," said one of them, Nguyen Thanh Hai, who gets 50 to 100 calls for help every day about robberies, drugs, and even kidnappings.
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Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos are said to be fighting a bitter turf war over who controls lucrative criminal activities in the area such as kidnappings, extortion, and drug trafficking.
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Since the war on drugs began, kidnappings and extortion have become commonplace, and Human Rights Watch has accused Mexican security officials of violating human rights through killings, torture and disappearances.
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Sleeper cells have regrouped in provinces including Diyala, Salahuddin, Anbar, Kirkuk and Nineveh, where they have carried out frequent attacks, including kidnappings and bombings aimed at undermining the Baghdad government.
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Several hostages have been freed, after paying ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, a group linked to al-Qaeda and known for kidnappings and beheadings, including of two Canadians this year.
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Often, Shiite militias backed by Iran were the culprits, and two recent high-profile kidnappings in Iraq are widely believed to be the work of militias with ties to Iran.
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The attacks follow years of relative calm in the country's oil-producing region after a 2009 amnesty halted a spate of attacks on oil installations and kidnappings of expatriate workers.
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So have "express" kidnappings, where the victim is whisked to a cash machine to withdraw money, and "virtual" ones, where people are tricked into thinking a relative has been nabbed.
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These families and individuals had sued the Islamic Republic for damages after the deaths of loved ones or for being the victims themselves of Iran-backed kidnappings or terrorist attacks.
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According to the Defense Department this Al Qaeda terrorist was wreaking havoc in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and was responsible for numerous deaths and kidnappings in the region. Bye-bye.
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In the 1980s she held sway in Soweto with the help of the Mandela United Football Club, "Winnie's boys", who hung around her house to carry out kidnappings and beatings.
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"There are people from car accidents in the desert, cases of dehydration, gunshot wounds, and kidnappings," said Mahdi Mohamed Mahdi, the harried administrator in charge of the migrants' medical files.
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In January, the United Nations said a surge in kidnappings and general insecurity in North Kivu province in recent months had made delivering life-saving humanitarian aid a "Herculean task".
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The hits follow years of relative calm in the country's oil-producing region after a 2009 amnesty halted a spate of attacks on oil installations and kidnappings of expatriate workers.
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The attack underlined the fragile security situation in Kabul which has seen a series of kidnappings, suicide bombings and other insurgent attacks on targets connected to the Western-backed government.
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The agreement exonerates from jail and prohibits extradition of FARC members responsible for atrocious crimes — massacres, kidnappings, and narcotrafficking — and also grants them the right to run for political office.
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These days, the locals can't freely move about to fish and farm without fear of being snatched off the street by Muslim terrorist thugs who raise money from the kidnappings.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States Embassy issued a strongly worded warning on Thursday about kidnappings of foreigners here after an American citizen narrowly escaped an abduction attempt in downtown Kabul.
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Abuja-bound passengers will have to fly to Kaduna and travel in buses, guarded by security, on a road where several kidnappings have taken place in the past few years.
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"As they cannot take the interim president prisoner, so they seek out people closest to him, threaten relatives, carry out kidnappings," Guaidó said at a news conference, according to Reuters.
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And elsewhere in the province, Shiite militias supported by Iran are carrying out kidnappings and murders and restricting the movement of Sunni Arab civilians, according to American and Iraqi officials.
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The war in Colombia, the longest in the Americas, killed about 220,000 people and was marked by kidnappings, massacres and rapes that prompted five million Colombians to flee their homes.
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While my father endured his guns, my stepfather loved his guns, and counseled us on what to do in case of home break-ins, kidnappings and all manner of Armageddon.
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These essays track Cole's journeys around an explosive world of drones, wars and diseases, including the kidnappings of young girls in Chibok and assassinations of terror suspects by drone warfare.
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They say the militias are responsible for widespread abuses including extra-judicial killings, kidnappings and displacing non-Shi'ite populations, and in effect report to Tehran, not the government in Baghdad.
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At one time, negotiations were held between families after a Sasak man set his sights on a woman, in contrast to bride kidnappings plaguing countries like Kyrgyzstan, Mali and Ethiopia.
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Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, has posted videos on social media pledging allegiance to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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But navigating her freedom has been filled with multiple struggles, which she plans to recount in her new book: Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings.
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Tolo News reported allegations of summary executions, rape, kidnappings and other abuses by Taliban fighters during the battle for Kunduz, a northern city that the militants briefly captured last year.
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Amnesty International said in a September report that it had recorded 260 security incidents this year, including the kidnappings of civilians and violence between Cameroon's soldiers and armed Anglophone separatists.
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"The priority is to protect citizens, so during this period, kidnappings, attacks on oil pipelines and other hostilities against the civilian population will cease," Santos said in a televised speech.
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The former rebels blamed right-wing parties, while others in Colombia argued that the group was simply confronting an angry electorate victimized for years by FARC's kidnappings and deadly attacks.
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Militants from Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group behind the earlier kidnappings, raced into the village of Dapchi on Monday in machine-gun mounted trucks and opened fire, witnesses said.
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Uber and other ride-sharing companies have also faced the problem of people, mostly men, posing as drivers to carry out kidnappings, sexual assaults and robberies, largely against young women.
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Related: Mexican Workers at Canadian Mines Are Under Constant Threat of Cartel Kidnappings, Killings The stories about kidnapped Rarámuris that are forced to work on drug plantations have become common.
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The largely Roman Catholic Philippines has been struggling to thwart two small but violent Islamic State-linked groups behind kidnappings, piracy, bombings and the recent beheading of a German captive.
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The leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels and the government had announced peace talks in March, but the negotiations have been delayed by the rebels' continued kidnappings and infrastructure attacks.
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Some of the plays at the Tamanaco tell of Venezuelans' grim realities, such as kidnappings at gun-point and hunger in the slums, while comedies poke fun at everyday nuisances.
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Plus, when a cartel kingpin is killed or captured — such as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — fights for territory erupt and smaller criminal groups emerge to carry out kidnappings and extortion.
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The issue at stake is the January 29, 1992, kidnappings, torture and killings of six people in the central Peruvian town of Pativilca, according to state-run news agency Andina.
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Also, the Libyan Coast Guard takes people back to Libya, which is a country at civil war, with systematic human rights abuses—slave trade, kidnappings, torture, all very well documented.
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Contacted for comment by Reuters, the military's spokesman, Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun, called the kidnappings by the rebels "terrorism", and defended the military's response to the insurgency as justified.
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Of the 15 other private shelters in Juárez, many are located in dangerous neighborhoods — where migrants are vulnerable to cartel kidnappings — and in buildings that should be condemned, Levy said.
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She talked with me about kidnappings in the region, including that of her uncle, whose captors took him hostage for his motorcycle which they eventually returned to him, she said.
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And Rodrigo Nieto Gomez, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, told me that the skills drug dealers use in their daily lives work for kidnappings too.
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FARC, ELN, and other marxist rebel groups have been waging a guerrilla war against the Colombian government since 1964, using trafficking and kidnappings' ransom, in part, to fund their war.
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President skips voter consensus In the more than five decades since it started, the armed group has seized territory, attacked government forces and interfered with political life through high-profile kidnappings.
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Physical violence included beatings, thefts, extortions and kidnappings; psychological violence included humiliation, threats, rejection and insults; and sexual violence included rape, sex in exchange for goods, money, protection, transportation or food.
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They were initially started to highlight the plight of migrants who have to take dangerous routes through Mexico in order to reach the US, exposing themselves to extortion, kidnappings, and rape.
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Last week, the top UN official in Afghanistan warned of the danger of a new spiral of violence following recent suicide attacks and a spate of highway kidnappings by the Taliban.
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In the city of Villavicencio, Francis will hold a prayer meeting with 6,33 survivors of a brutal conflict that has left millions scarred by kidnappings, massacres, rape, land mines and displacement.
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Kidnappings in Iraq have been carried out by the Islamic State group and Shiite militias as well as criminal gangs demanding ransom payments or disgruntled employees seeking to resolve workplace disputes.
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Like ISIS, he beheaded captives and posted video Zarqawi shocked the world with a string of kidnappings and beheadings -- which were then posted online and credited to Zarqawi or his group.
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That puts them at increased risk, with recent reports of violence and kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo, which is directly across the border from Laredo, and Matamoros, which is adjacent to Brownsville.
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Protests, which began in October 2016 with Anglophone teachers and barristers demonstrating about French curricula and legal texts, have morphed into a conflict of kidnappings, beheadings and the torching of villages.
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The Definitive Guide to Business More Americans are terrified of public speaking than are afraid of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, loneliness, dying, theft, volcanoes, aging, needles, mass shootings, kidnappings and ghosts.
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Kidnappings are one of the group's hallmarks, the most notorious coming in April 2014, when it abducted more than 200 girls from a school in the northeastern Nigerian city of Chibok.
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Duque wants changes to some of the deal's most controversial provisions, which many Colombians see as too lenient on the former rebels, who were infamous for their kidnappings and bombing campaigns.
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Hiscox, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said it would return 32 pence per share to shareholders, including a special dividend of 16 pence per share.
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Kidnappings are common in the impoverished region which has been hit by militant attacks on oil and gas facilities and a general breakdown of law since the start of the year.
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The war also fueled what is now an enduring divide between Colombia's farmers, whom the FARC swore to protect, and its city dwellers, whom the rebels terrorized with kidnappings and killings.
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Cochetel, who spent 317 days in captivity, said attacks were increasing as militants teamed up with criminal organizations to form hybrid groups, which saw kidnappings as "part of their business model".
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At the time of their arrest, Houston police said they believed the group was also responsible for at least two other murders, along with a string of aggravated robberies and kidnappings.
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"Opening this border puts migrants at great risk, due to its history of kidnappings and massacres by criminal gangs," said Oscar Hernandez, migration researcher at the College of the Northern Border.
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Rights groups have called on Baghdad to keep the Shi'ite militias away from the battlefield, accusing them of carrying out revenge killings and kidnappings in other areas freed from Islamic State.
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In Iraq, Islamic State fighters have recently engaged in hit-and-run attacks, kidnappings and other criminal activities, only a few months after Prime Minister Abadi had declared the group defeated.
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"They have had to move towards a faster model and that faster model is kidnappings," OBP's Matthew Walje said, noting that ransom payouts were as high as $400,000 in one incident.
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Officials said the outfit had ties to a cell of Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has carried out numerous murders, rapes and kidnappings in northern Nigeria and border countries.
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Unpopular for their history of kidnappings and killings, they were attacked with stones on the campaign trail, dropped out of a presidential bid and did not win a single elected seat.
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A decade ago, rival Shiite militias controlled the Baghdad police, a division of the Interior Ministry, and they were often implicated in kidnappings, killings and even ethnic cleansing of Sunni neighborhoods.
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In the 1870s, felon disenfranchisement — along with lynchings, kidnappings and other violence — served to "preserve the purity of the ballot box," in the words of an 1884 Alabama Supreme Court ruling.
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He also said in a statement that officials would explore possible links between Ms. Fares's killing and other recent murders and kidnappings in Baghdad and Basra, a city in southern Iraq.
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They followed utility vans that they suspected of taking part in kidnappings, and were arrested after being chased by occupants of a Roma camp who had been warned of an attack.
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At least 1,000 people sent back under the program were violently attacked or threatened in Mexico, according to a Human Rights First report on Friday that documented kidnappings, rapes and assaults.
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Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Abu Sayyaf's kidnappings were a national embarrassment, with the number of hostages increasing to 31 from 18 captives when Duterte came to power on June 30.
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The region around Indonesia's borders with Malaysia and the Philippines, a major sea lane and fishing area, has seen a spate of kidnappings by gunmen and Islamist militants in recent months.
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Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent Islamist group known for kidnappings, beheadings, bombings and extortion, is still holding a number of Filipino and foreign nationals captive, including some Indonesians and Malaysians.
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The shipping industry has warned in recent months about the increasing dangers faced by seafarers sailing through West Africa, particularly around Nigeria, with a greater focus on kidnappings by pirate gangs.
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There has been a spate of killings and kidnappings ahead of a July presidential election which rights groups say are being conducted by the army against suspected sympathizers of jihadist groups.
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On Sunday, the fifth anniversary of the kidnappings from the village of Chibok, President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated a pledge he had made years ago to bring back all of the students.
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Last year, the fighters carried out kidnappings eerily similar to the one in Chibok, taking dozens of girls in the community of Dapchi before returning most of them several days later.
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Colombians also want FARC, which made enormous sums in kidnappings for ransom and drug trafficking, to use its funds to pay compensation to its victims, something the rejected agreement did not require.
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But the Manbij attack, and continued low-level kidnappings and attacks elsewhere in Syria and Iraq, are a reminder that its sleeper cells exist and its ideology has yet to be defeated.
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Despite widespread relief at an end to the conflict, many among Colombia's largely conservative residents are angry because the deal will not jail FARC leaders who committed crimes like kidnappings and massacres.
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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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The insurer, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said gross written premiums rose to 1.46 billion pounds in the period, from 1.29 billion pounds a year earlier.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted an American teacher on Tuesday from an English language school in Sanaa, capital of wartorn Yemen, witnesses said, in the latest of a series of kidnappings of foreigners.
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Taliban sources said the couple were being held by the Haqqanis, a militant Islamist group affiliated with the Taliban that is known for kidnappings and high profile attacks in cities like Kabul.
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"In addition to murders, forced displacements and kidnappings, restrictions on the mobility and confinement of communities have arisen, who are intimidated by the actions of illegal structures," it said in a statement.
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Military sources and local media have speculated Marxist rebels or crime gangs operating in the area may be responsible for the disappearances, but the government has not yet classified them as kidnappings.
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Car bombs and kidnappings, common in Syria, could emerge as tactics in Europe, it said, while protected sites such as power grids and nuclear power stations were not seen as top targets.
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President Ivan Duque, who took office in August, has said he will not continue peace talks with the ELN initiated by his predecessor until the rebels stop kidnappings and all criminal activity.
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The report suggests "that Boko Haram started using women suicide bombers after it realized the potency that gender and youth offer in raising its global profile after the Chibok kidnappings," he says.
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The Repsol executive said oil firms had to guard against kidnappings, extortion and having workers caught in crossfires between rival gangs, along with is now Mexico's fastest-growing organized crime - fuel theft.
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They believe Christ was reincarnated as a Chinese woman said to be living in New York, and they gained notoriety for mass kidnappings and a brutal murder in a McDonald's in 2014.
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Their arrests included nearly 1,200 homicides; almost 69,000 assaults; 16,854 burglaries; 700 kidnappings; nearly 6,2023 sexual assaults; 69,000 drug offenses; 8,21625 weapons violations; over 2900,220006 robberies and over 2202,2628 obstructing police charges.
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The organization was responsible for "murders, kidnappings, tortures and violent collections of drug debts" and payments to officials to ensure the safe passage of the shipments through Mexico, according to federal prosecutors.
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Witnessing senseless deaths, kidnappings, and monstrous torture, Adnan wrote her pivotal novel Sitt Marie Rose, based on the life of Syrian social worker Marie Rose Boulos, who was killed by Christian militia.
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Citizen, formerly known as Vigilante, is a crime-tracking app that offers geo-targeted alerts that notify users of dangers lurking nearby, from carjackings to kidnappings and every mundane horror in-between.
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It is a hard message for many Colombians, who still have the trauma of kidnappings and killings fresh in their minds, but one which seems to have already had an important effect.
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Mozambique has been rocked by a spate of beheadings and kidnappings in recent months that have prompted international energy firms operating in the northern Cabo Delgado province to introduce added security measures.
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It is a hard message for many Colombians who still have the trauma of kidnappings and killings fresh in their minds, but one which seems to have already had an important effect.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed on Thursday to conduct coordinated sea patrols and establish a hotline to combat piracy and kidnappings in waters bordering the three Southeast Asian nations.
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"The kidnapping of these young women, along with the kidnappings of countless others by Boko Haram, epitomizes this terrorist group's depravity," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Abu Sayyaf has conducted kidnappings, bombings and battles with soldiers for more than 20 years in the southern Philippines, where many members of the impoverished local population regard it as an ally.
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Over the years the narrative has gone like this: Hamas instigates a fight, usually with rocket fire or kidnappings, but more recently with this surge of border assaults, resulting in Israeli reprisal.
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Alarmed by the spate of kidnappings for ransom, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines agreed in May to conduct coordinated naval security patrols in the Sulu Archipelago, and establish a hotline among themselves.
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The peace talks brought back old scars, from kidnappings, to the rape of women in rebel camps, to decades of drug trafficking as the FARC muscled its way into the cocaine trade.
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KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the first woman senator from Pakistan's lowest Dalit caste, Krishna Kumari Kohli has an ambitious to-do list, from tackling honor killings to kidnappings and child marriage.
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The kidnappings and mass killings were a fact of daily life for Francisco Miguel-Francisco, a young man living in Cerro Martín, a small village tucked into the indigenous highlands of Guatemala.
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Mr. Boles said that tourists have been robbed when they're out and about in the city while Mr. Bradley said that Quito has a problem with what are known as "express" kidnappings.
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There are no easy explanations for the carnage in Djugu nor for the sudden cessation of massacres in mid-March, although violence — crop destruction, kidnappings, and killings — continues on a lesser scale.
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Photographing the FARC necessarily touches on its complex and divisive presence in the nation: the guerrilla group has been responsible for thousands of deaths, kidnappings, and tortures over its 56-year history.
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The Trump administration calls the policy "Migrant Protection Protocols," but far from offering protection, the policy has led to a brutal wave of kidnappings in some of Mexico's most dangerous border cities.
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Reports of kidnappings and theft have emerged across the border, as migrants are sent back to ultraviolent states like Tamaulipas and Chihuahua to fend for themselves while they await their hearing dates.
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Thugs loyal to the notorious mobster Al Capone had descended on the town, unleashing a wave of beatings, shootings and kidnappings intended to swing the election in favor of Capone's preferred candidates.
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Control Risks, a security consultancy covering issues ranging from advice for its clients on regional politics to resolving kidnappings, says it has increased its assessment of operational and political risk in Qatar.
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After 276 girls were abducted from their school's dormitories in the middle of the night on April 14, 2014, in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria, one campaign — #BringBackOurGirls — brought the kidnappings to international attention.
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Hired to protect the nation's business and political elite from kidnappings, robberies, and assassinations, these bodyguards are a key part of the private security industry that is among Mexico's fast growing sectors.
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Ships in or around Nigerian waters were the target of a series of piracy-related incidents last year, with 10 kidnappings involving 65 crew members, the IMB said in a report in January.
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The practice was a boon to drug cartels, local drug gangs, and pimps, which targeted the deportees for kidnappings and being forced into prostitution, particularly in border towns that cater to US tourists.
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Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, has urged the government to investigate the kidnappings of four people accused of links to the Gulen movement, an Islamist sect believed to have inspired the coup.
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They cite abuses in Sunni cities retaken from Islamic State, like the looting in Tikrit last year and reports of torture, revenge killings and kidnappings in Falluja, a historic jihadist stronghold near Baghdad.
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Teresa Chan, 64, cited the recent alleged kidnappings of booksellers by mainland Chinese agents as a reason why she wanted legislators that advocate for more democracy and rule of law in the city.
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"Almost immediately after the Chibok kidnappings ... Boko Haram's use of women suicide bombers skyrocketed," says Jason Warner, assistant professor at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, the United States' elite military academy.
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During a press conference last Thursday, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott credited a 20-year-old college student Jordan Dinsmore with ending a string of robberies, carjackings, and kidnappings that began July 3.
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Tanzanians took to social media to demand answers from the government about recent incidents of politically-related kidnappings and torture and the attempted assassination of vocal opposition MP Tundu Lissu in Sept. 2017.
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The small but violent Abu Sayyaf group, which is known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, is one of several brutal Muslim rebel factions in the impoverished south of the largely Christian Philippines.
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Those who admit to grave crimes — like kidnappings and executions — would be subject to periods of restricted mobility for five to eight years, during which they would be expected to perform community service.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but police suspect the terror group Boko Haram, whose militants mainly inhabit areas in northern Nigeria and routinely carry out bombings and kidnappings.
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The insurer, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, also said claims arising from the Mexico earthquakes and California wildfires are not expected to be material for the group.
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Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has described Abu Sayyaf's kidnappings as a national embarrassment, saying the number of hostages had increased to 31 from 18 captives when Duterte came to power on June 30.
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On the afternoon of the kidnappings, an initial call was made to the army command in Geidam, about 30 miles from Dapchi, informing soldiers that Boko Haram fighters had been spotted outside Geidam.
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Over the past several years, Independencia has endured student kidnappings, the seizure of police outposts and the murder of police officers, and a steady stream of dumped cadavers, often bearing signs of torture.
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Sam Heller, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the group had been responsible for sporadic violence and kidnappings, though those may die down now that it has established local dominance.
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But in fact, throughout terrorism's long and tragic history, there have been numerous periods in which terrorist groups employed targeted assassinations and kidnappings of specific individuals as their preferred method of political violence.
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The shift has unnerved African commanders in Burkina Faso and neighboring nations in the Sahel, a vast sub-Saharan scrubland increasingly racked by bombings, massacres, kidnappings and attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners.
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Kidnappings and killings by the Islamic State captured more attention in the West, but the Syrian prison system has vacuumed up many more times the number of people detained by ISIS in Syria.
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Related: Two US Citizens Kidnapped a Texas Man and Took Him to Mexico According to government figures there were 230 kidnappings reported last year in the state, some 21 percent of Mexico's total.
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The Republican leadership in Texas sees the situation differently, and has often highlighted evidence of killings, assaults, shootings and kidnappings on Texas soil that they say are directly related to Mexican drug cartels.
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The kidnappings prompted a strong social media reaction, with the phrase #bringbackourgirls tweeted around 3.3 million times by mid-May 2014, and the campaign which followed backed by U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama.
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A confidential Philippine government threat assessment report seen by The Associated Press last year said that the organization received at least $7.3 million from ransom kidnappings in the first six months of 2016.
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They include a 50-year-old Filipino suspected of recruiting his countrymen in Malaysia to join up with the Abu Sayyaf, a militant group notorious for kidnappings and beheadings in the southern Philippines.
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But Britain and the United States are among the few countries that hew to a strict policy of not paying for hostages, arguing that doing so finances terrorist groups and encourages more kidnappings.
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Like the recent attacks, those kidnappings are believed to be the work of extremists aligned with either the Islamic State or al Qaeda; however, as with the violence, no group has taken responsibility.
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Schubert said prosecutors believe the kidnappings DeAngelo has been charged with were all sexually motivated but prosecutors were unable to file charges for the rapes because the statute of limitations for those crimes expired.
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Brothers Max Jalal, 20, Rebeen Jalal, 230 and Arman Jalal, 23, have rapidly gained a reputation for edgy pranks including bomb threats and kidnappings posted on YouTube and Facebook in the past few months.
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Nigeria's military appeared to be making improvements -- not long ago it faced issues with soldiers mutinying -- but the rescue effort struggled to overcome a lackluster response in the crucial first days after the kidnappings.
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Matar's long-exposure, black-and-white images of trees and seemingly empty landscapes at once evoke the feeling of absence and depict the foliage as witness to these kinds of political kidnappings and assassinations.
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The insurer, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said gross written premiums rose to $1.16 billion in the three months ended March 31, from $930 million a year earlier.
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There were 22 kidnappings in 2016 in the Philippines, according to PNP, with the majority targeting Philippine nationals and taking place on Mindanao, where government forces have been battling Islamist militant groups for years.
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Central African Republic is a particularly bad case, but aid workers worldwide are facing an increase in raids, killings and kidnappings as fighters flout the international laws meant to protect humanitarians, aid groups said.
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"There have been reports of violent clashes between local militia and Congolese forces, a large number of killings of both civilians and non-civilians, kidnappings and summary executions," Fatou Bensouda wrote in a statement.
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Citing the potential for heated tempers in the wake of the unpopular forced closure, Binag said that the officers would prevent disturbances, while also laying out contingency plans for possible protests, kidnappings and bombings.
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The cartel's sicarios, or hit men, operated out of an oil-change shop not far from the funeral home; a group of more than a hundred gathered there to plot killings, kidnappings, and bombings.
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But the possibility of North Korea doing something to tarnish the Olympics cannot be ruled out since the regime has shown a history of disregard for international norms, including resorting to assassinations and kidnappings.
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"They capture the leaders but they leave all the guys below them loose so they band together into small groups and begin to commit high-impact crimes like theft, extortion, and kidnappings," he said.
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This expansion intensified under President George W. Bush, with warrantless wiretaps, secret kidnappings, and torture, but much of it continued under President Barack Obama, tainting a generally progressive eight years in the White House.
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MARKET OVERVIEW Housing prices in Mexico dropped 252 percent during the global economic downturn, and the increase in kidnappings and other crime over the last decade have hurt the real estate market as well.
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Or they ponder their options in the Senda de Vida shelter - the only one to accept Central Americans - in a district dominated by the Gulf cartel, who are blamed for multiple kidnappings and disappearances.
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Unexpectedly, a fellow inmate confesses to the crime and Horacia, jailed during the initial period of the Marcos regime, is released into the financial instability of 1997, a time rife with kidnappings for ransom.
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Since the "Remain in Mexico" restrictions were rolled out early in 213, more than 153,215 asylum seekers have been turned back by American authorities into Mexican border cities, where kidnappings and violence have surged.
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The al Qaeda ally has targeted Kenya in frequent attacks, part of a retaliation campaign against the country for sending troops into Somalia in 2011 after a series of cross-border raids and kidnappings.
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Banditry has plagued the northwest for years, particularly around Zamfara state and neighboring Kaduna state, although the recent spate of kidnappings and killings in the northwest has put the region in the public eye.
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)The founder of the notorious Taliban-linked Haqqani network, which for decades was responsible for kidnappings and suicide bombings against the United States and its allies, has died, the Taliban said.
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Some Islamic State fighters still hold out in Syria's remote central desert and in Iraqi cities they have slipped into the shadows, staging sudden shootings or kidnappings and awaiting a chance to rise again.
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Sanchez's safe return comes after police appealed to the public for help and issued an "amber alert" earlier on Tuesday, a law enforcement tactic that includes blanket cell phone notifications to solve suspected kidnappings.
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But Cogan agreed with the government that, while Guzman is not charged with violent crimes, he allegedly employed "sicarios," or hit men, who carried out hundreds of murders, assaults and kidnappings in his name.
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Most recently, prosecutors successfully argued for an anonymous and partially sequestered jury, warning the judge that Chapo has "employed armed guards and assassins who engaged in murders, assaults, kidnappings, and torture" against potential witnesses.
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A spate of high-profile and in some cases fatal kidnappings this year led independent media and civil society groups to say that police were failing in their fundamental duties and suppressing damaging crime data.
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I think it could be a similarly atmospheric exploration of any of the other things that informed that era, whether it was Satanic Panic, or UFO conspiracies, or kidnappings or what have you, slasher movies.
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Harper learned that Nigeria can produce the oil he uses in his skin care line, turning that conversation into a potential partnership that could bring jobs to the people directly affected by Boko Haram's kidnappings.
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Kidnappings are rare in Chad, a former French colony in West Africa, but the remote eastern border area has seen decades of back-and-forth movement by armed groups, including rebels fighting the Sudanese government.
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In kidnappings motivated by money, a hostage's risk of death during negotiations is 9% without K&R insurance, but just 2% with it, according to Anja Shortland, who is writing a book about kidnapping insurance.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has been discussing coordinated naval patrols on its southern maritime borders with Indonesia and Malaysia to protect shipping after attacks and kidnappings by Islamist militants, its foreign minister said on Thursday.
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Attacks on oil pipelines and kidnappings have been rising in the Delta, which produces much of Nigeria's oil output, since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader on corruption charges.
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Kidnappings are rare in Chad, a former French colony in West Africa, but the remote eastern border area has seen decades of back-and-forth movement from armed groups, including rebels fighting the Sudanese government.
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" Angela Gui said that Hong Kong's leaders have also not done enough, and she was critical of Lam for referring "to the rule of law and 'one country, two systems' to excuse politically motivated kidnappings.
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They left because of the things their eldest son saw—the bombings and shoot-outs, the kidnappings, the everyday horrors of life in a war zone—and because of the things he could not see.
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While posted in danger spots abroad as a foreign correspondent I, like hundreds of other reporters, was sent for week-long training in how to respond in violent situations such as shootings, bombings and kidnappings.
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Many roads are plagued by kidnappings and accidents, police are more likely to ask for money than offer a service and deadly communal clashes have erupted across much of Nigeria's hinterland states, particularly this year.
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In July, the International Maritime Bureau described the Gulf of Guinea as the most dangerous area in the world for piracy with 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings taking place there.
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Shabaab, a militant group with links to al Qaeda, has launched devastating attacks on civilians in Kenya in retaliation for the country sending troops into Somalia in 2011 after attacks and kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
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During his campaign he vowed to improve security but - against the backdrop of the northwest's wave of banditry, high-profile kidnappings nationwide and attacks by Islamist insurgents - he has reiterated that it remains a priority.
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As a senior investigating officer, he was more used to dealing with murders and kidnappings than burglaries, but once the seriousness of the crime became clear, he made his way to the major incident room.
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Based in the city of Culiacán, the papers say, he also had an army of "sicarios," or assassins, at his command to carry out murders, kidnappings, acts of torture and to serve as debt collectors.
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Some rivals are using the Dapchi kidnapping to build their case, and a fringe element has even accused the president of orchestrating the kidnappings so that he could emerge heroic by negotiating the girls' release.
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For the FARC, it was a turn of fortune for what had been the country's most feared rebel organization, one that had terrorized Colombians with kidnappings, killings and land mines that still plague the country.
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In addition, at the time of his firing, Mr. Lee told senior Japan Tobacco officials that other company security employees were carrying out kidnappings and torture in their hunt for smugglers, the former colleague said.
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Though they remain under complete control of the government in power and the ruling party and wouldn't tackle political disinformation, they could make a beginning with apparently apolitical disinformation such as rumors of child kidnappings.
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Throughout its struggle, the P.T.M. has accused the security forces of oppressing the country's Pashtun minority by waging communal justice against noncombatants in areas where militant groups operate, and by staging extrajudicial killings or kidnappings.
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The state department said, "Due to the risk of kidnappings, robberies, and other armed attacks, US citizens should also avoid all but essential travel to: Bayelsa, Delta, Kaduna, Katsina, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, and Zamfara states."
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Al Shabaab say the raids are retaliation for Kenyan security forces operating in Somalia, but Kenyan officials say al Shabaab launched raids and kidnappings on their territory long before Kenyan soldiers entered Somalia in 2011.
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The group's Aid Worker Security Report showed that attacks on aid workers such as violent or sexual assaults, bombings, shootings and kidnappings dropped by more than 22016 percent in 2015, compared with the previous year.
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The military says Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf group notorious for kidnappings and piracy, sought an alliance with the Maute brothers and was wounded in air strikes in January in Lanao del Sur.
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Superior Court Judge Harry M. Elias also ruled that there is sufficient evidence for Winslow to be tried for alleged kidnappings and rapes of a 54-year-old hitchhiker and a 93-year-old homeless woman.
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Since the group declared war on the country's central government in 22, millions of civilians — including huge numbers of farmers — have been forced from their homes to escape the group's campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings.
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Images of Nigerian woman Rifkatu Ayuba overcome as she recognized her teen daughter, Saratu, in a "proof of life" video produced by her captors -- and obtained exclusively by CNN -- prompted renewed outrage over the 2014 kidnappings.
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Also found dead was the owner of a refrigerator truck used as a getaway vehicle in the kidnappings, said Ahmad Taha, the commander of a rebel group that was later crushed by the Army of Islam.
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Banditry has plagued the northwest for years, particularly around Zamfara state and its border with Kaduna state, though a recent spate of kidnappings and killings in the region has put the region in the public eye.
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And likewise, the Iran deal faces these not incorrect criticisms based around the fact that it's not complete, it doesn't address Iran's human rights track record and its kidnappings and its non-nuclear ballistic missile tests.
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Del Castillo apparently flaked on an earlier meetup with Mexican officials, who presumably want to know about the flirtatious texts she exchanged with a man whose drug network is notorious for engaging in kidnappings and murders.
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Hiscox, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said gross written premiums rose to 641 million pounds ($923.23 million) in the quarter ended March 31, with strong performance across all business sectors.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian military said on Thursday it had rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014, one of the world's most notorious kidnappings in recent years.
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The FARC, formed in 1964 as a Marxist-inspired peasant revolt, had been at war with the government for decades, using kidnappings, killings, and bombings as tactics while hiding out in the country's mountains and jungles.
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But the killing of a South Carolina student last weekend has brought national attention to a rash of kidnappings, sexual assaults and robberies carried out largely against young women by assailants posing as ride-share drivers.
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Leaders of the Ambazonia Governing Council, which oversees one of the largest factions of separatists, issued a statement condemning the kidnappings, calling them "atrocious acts," and suggesting they were orchestrated by a plant of the government.
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But kidnappings of local officials and regular citizens have occurred in recent months in the English-speaking region's conflict, with officials blaming separatists who target people not adhering to their declared boycotts of schools and shops.
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In the past few years, there has been a third: the bloody insurgency in the state of Balochistan, where the military and the intelligence agencies have been accused of a campaign of kidnappings, torture, and executions.
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The rest of the parties, meanwhile — Primo and his cronies, James Fletcher Chace, J. Paul Getty Sr., his secretary — discuss negotiations with such practiced fluency that it seems as if these kidnappings happen all the time.
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Last year, 21 people died during an al Shabaab assault on a hotel complex in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, which in 2011 sent troops into Somalia after a spate of cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
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"There have been reports of violence between local militias and Congolese forces, the killing of many civilians and noncivilians, kidnappings and summary executions of persons, including U.N. experts on mission and their accompanying persons," she said.
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Since forming in the late 1990s, the terror group's tactics have intensified in recent years -- from battling Nigerian government soldiers to raids on villages, mass kidnappings, assassinations, market bombings and attacks on churches and unaffiliated mosques.
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If Somali refugees are suddenly repatriated, they will return to a country where attacks on schools and hospitals are widespread and security concerns about kidnappings and explosions from improvised explosive devices are part of daily life.
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Hiscox, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said the process of establishing the subsidiary would begin immediately and that it expected to complete the restructuring well in advance of March 2019.
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Criminal groups earn less per victim but can carry out many more kidnappings without attracting the attention of the authorities, according to Juan Francisco Torres Landa, a consultant for the organization Mexico United Against Organized Crime.
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For 30 years in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, protestors, armed groups, and Pakistani-backed Muslim militants have rebelled against the government — and tens of thousands have been killed in kidnappings, executions, skirmishes and raids.
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In 2004, he was convicted of having killed 27 people in 13 murders and other assaults and kidnappings spanning six years that culminated in the subway attack in his elaborate scheme to hasten Armageddon that he threatened.
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Mother overcome by proof of life video Images of a broken Rifkatu Ayuba who recognized her daughter, Saratu, in the video produced by her captors -- and obtained exclusively by CNN -- prompted renewed outrage over the 2014 kidnappings.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Philippines on Thursday agreed to allow Malaysia and Indonesia to carry out "hot pursuits" in its territorial waters, as the three nations look to tackle kidnappings and piracy by Islamist Abu Sayyaf rebels.
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The Emiratis have attempted to give the city a facelift, but while schoolgirls welcome their new computers and freshly painted classrooms, they worry about getting to school safely: kidnappings, night-time gunfire and explosions cause their trepidation.
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But while Hunter will be locked up for at least the next decade, the situation with his boss — the man supposedly calling the shots on those kidnappings and murders Hunter boasted about — remains something of a mystery.
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I was particularly fed up with living in constant fear — from the shellings, the sniper attacks, the bombings, the checkpoints, the kidnappings and the threats directed at my Palestinian-born parents, who met and married in Beirut.
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Anadarko, which is looking to raise a record $14-$15 billion for the plant, said last week it was monitoring the situation after a spate of beheadings and kidnappings but declined to comment on specific security issues.
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"Daesh has carried out so many kidnappings and beheadings based on sect," Abu Munther Al-Husainy, a Hashd al-Shaabi Special Forces leader, told me during my trip, referring to the Islamic State by its Arabic nickname.
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From the moment the sexy thriller — and You definitely is sexy — arrived on Netflix in late December, viewers were lining up to excuse Joe's string of slayings and kidnappings out of reverence for his purposefully dreamy looks.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia fears piracy on a shipping route along its sea border with the Philippines could reach Somalian levels and has told vessels to avoid danger areas, officials said on Thursday, after a spate of kidnappings.
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But the hundreds of people now living in shelters, from tents inside warehouses to more established settings, are in legal limbo - a situation some say frightens them because they feel vulnerable to kidnappings, violence and serious illness.
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Ongoing kidnappings and the recent beheading of Western hostages by Abu Sayyaf rebels were hurting the country's reputation, and incoming president Rodrigo Duterte was frustrated by the failure to rein in the group, Delfin Lorenzana told Reuters.
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The kidnappings follow a series of similar incidents in other parts of the country, underlining the precarious security on Afghanistan's main highways, which are vital lifelines in a country where many cannot afford to travel by air.
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The first American troops returned in 2000 and helped the Philippines as advisers in its effort to crush Abu Sayyaf, a small group of Islamist militants responsible for the country's worst atrocities, including kidnappings, bombings and killings.
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In a televised debate, Anaya then castigated the PRI for a surge in kidnappings in Tamaulipas and noted that two of the party's former state governors are wanted by U.S. prosecutors for alleged ties to drug gangs.
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They discussed the problems of the war itself, civilian casualties, kidnappings, injustice, narcotics trade and corruption, including the internal displacement of over a million people resulting from forced land grabs by commanders aligned with the Afghan government.
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"I wanted to highlight the dangers facing the talibe - they face beatings, kidnappings and sexual abuse," the game's creator Ousseynou Khadim Bèye told the Thomson Reuters Foundation ahead of International Day for Street Children on April 12.
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In recent months, Haiti, the poorest country in the Carribean, has experienced a break out in gang wars, a spike in kidnappings, and, according to The Guardian, 3.7 million residents are in need of urgent food assistance.
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The group's militants have burned villages, mosques and churches; carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings; and killed soldiers, despite claims by the military that its troops have reclaimed territories previous inhabited by the militant group.
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The two sides announced in March they would begin formal peace talks to end more than 50 years of war, but continued kidnappings and attacks on oil infrastructure by the rebels have so far stymied the process.
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In 2003, the relatively small Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat carried out a series of kidnappings of tourists and aid workers, receiving more than $6 million in ransoms that enabled the group to expand regionally into AQIM.
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If the journalists were kidnapped, it could become an obstacle for peace talks between the Colombian government and the two guerrilla groups, since putting a halt to kidnappings is one of the conditions the government set for negotiations.
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Mark Lowcock, U.N. emergency relief coordinator who visited South Sudan in mid-May, also said that despite kidnappings, murders and lootings, aid workers would stay in the country, where seven million people rely on humanitarian aid to survive.
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The Abu Sayyaf, a small but violent group in the Muslim south of the largely Catholic Philippines, has been known for extortion, kidnappings, beheadings and bombings, and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
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When Uribe left office in 2010, kidnappings had plummeted by 90 percent, the murder rate was cut in half, and the FARC – as well as right-wing paramilitary groups that sprung up to fight it – had been crushed.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian Navy has instructed all commercial vessels to avoid piracy-prone waters around the southern Philippines, a spokesman for the Indonesian military said on Thursday, following a spate of kidnappings and piracy in recent weeks.
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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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At the smaller end of the spectrum, this entails advances such as RICO, a kind of crowdsourcing crime app that enables users to earn cash by serving as anonymous links in the chains of planned heists and kidnappings.
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Within a few weeks, the committee was circulating talking points to California sheriffs and prosecutors, claiming that Mactaggart's proposal would make it harder for cops to foil kidnappings or quickly track down criminals like the San Bernardino shooter.
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President Buhari, who pledged to crush the militants, visited Dapchi on Wednesday to set up a committee to look into the kidnappings in an attempt to soothe outraged critics who accuse federal officials of being slow to respond.
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Alfaro said another five attempted kidnappings had been formally reported in the past two weeks, and that his office had logged informal reports on social media of attempts to abduct another 19 young women across the metropolitan area.
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Franco recently published a series of interviews with several victims of attempted kidnappings, and he told VICE News the majority of those targeted have been short, slim, and fair-skinned brunettes in their late teens or early 20s.
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They find it hard to square the uprising they joined and the violence that followed, the kidnappings, car bombs and government sieges so crippling that children starved in Yarmouk, a Palestinian enclave in the heart of the capital.
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The suspension underscores the breakdown of security in a part of the country where the military, police and state security forces have been deployed in recent weeks to tackle criminal gangs behind a spate of killings and kidnappings.
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Western allies have tried to limit the role of Shi'ite militia fighters known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, which human rights groups say have carried out killings and kidnappings of Sunnis in other areas freed from Islamic State.
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While the pace of killings in Iraq has ebbed and flowed, the attacks have become more brutal and there has been an increase in kidnappings, arrests and disappearances of protest leaders, doctors who treat wounded protesters, and journalists.
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The U.N. mission in Libya said it was deeply concerned about a sharp increase in kidnappings and arbitrary arrests during the Tripoli conflict, including the abduction of two Libyan TV journalists on May 2 whose fate remained unknown.
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Soldiers hung him by his arms from the ceiling with a cord, demanding to know whether he belonged to one of the gangs that had terrorized his neighborhood in Venezuela's rural area of Barlovento with robberies and kidnappings.
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Passengers will be ferried free of charge by bus on a roughly three-hour trip to Abuja along a road famous for kidnappings and banditry in a region where nomadic herdsmen and farmers engage in frequent deadly clashes.
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JOLO, the Philippines — Muslim militants in the southern Philippines on Saturday freed a South Korean captain and his Filipino crewman who were abducted three months ago from their cargo ship amid a wave of offshore kidnappings, officials said.
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Homicides and kidnappings have declined sharply, something the state government points to with pride, but many here in Los Mochis, a city known for its spicy tacos and for producing many champion prizefighters, credit the cartel with bringing stability.
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Although it is a rebel group fighting for an independent Islamic nation in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic Southeast Asian nation, its militants often seem more motivated by the money they can make from kidnappings and piracy.
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Several individuals and businesses contacted by Reuters confirmed that they owned Venezuelan bonds but declined to be named, citing security risks associated with publicly discussing having dollar savings in a country where hard currency is scarce and kidnappings abundant.
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Tom Cotton, on CBS' "Face the Nation," said despite the Obama administration's insistence it didn't pay a ransom for American hostages, that's what the rest of the world saw -- opening the door to kidnappings of Americans in the future.
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Multinational organizations that operate there do not allow their female employees to go unescorted in the middle of the day because of the high risk for carjackings, kidnappings, and sexual attacks—and often the police is involved in these.
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Kidnapping gang Glenn Dumlao, who heads the PNP's anti-kidnapping unit, said the syndicate -- which is believed to be responsible for at least two other kidnappings -- operated in teams of four, who would patrol casino floors looking for victims.
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Federal prosecutors in the U.S. say the 58-year-old orchestrated "hundreds of killings, assaults, kidnappings" in his role as leader of the notorious drug trafficking network, as Hernández noted in a Los Angeles Times piece about the interview.
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Episode 7 of Mr. Robot's final season was hack-free, but we still managed to discuss [SPOILERS, obvs] the Cayman National Bank heist and the anonymity of cryptocurrency payments, as well as therapy, mental health, and, uh, surviving kidnappings.
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The report seeks to quantify one of the most chilling elements of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group that has assaulted the Lake Chad region of Africa for years with thievery, beheadings, kidnappings and the torching of entire villages.
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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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Investigators said Abu Sayyaf, a southern Philippine group notorious for acts of piracy, kidnappings and beheadings, had claimed responsibility for Friday's night bombing at a Davao street market, although police said they were still trying to authenticate the claim.
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Beginning around 285, criminal groups began to use kidnappings — and the ransom money they got from desperate families — to help fund those activities, according to Víctor Manuel Sánchez Valdés, a research professor at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico.
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Two mass kidnappings in the troubled Hot Land region of the beleaguered Mexican state of Guerrero have ended with an unusual result — most of the victims have been released following a large rescue operation by the army and police.
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Among them was Alicia Kozakiewicz, 29, who was abducted in 2002 near her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by a man who contacted her online, a case that made international headlines as one of the first such kidnappings of the internet age.
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MANILA (Reuters) - When the deadline for his ransom passed this week, Canadian John Ridsdel was beheaded by his captors, the Abu Sayyaf, whose network in the Philippines is only gaining in strength thanks to vast sums earned from kidnappings that pay.
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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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"The Sulu Sea area has always had sporadic incidents like kidnappings of tourists before, but starting last year and this year, it has really gone up," Noel Chung, the Kuala Lumpur-based Asia head of the International Maritime Bureau, said.
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"We investigated (Velazquez's) alleged involvement in a criminal group with operations in the region, related to the transfer and sale of drugs, the commission of other kidnappings and the extortion of merchants of the town of Ciudad Victoria," Quintanilla said.
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Baghdad-based analyst Hisham al-Hashemi, who advises the government, said the kidnappings were meant to embarrass and weaken Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is trying to balance his country's relations with rival powers Iran and the United States.
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Based in the southern Philippine province of Mindanao, Abu Sayyaf has increasingly taken to maritime kidnappings for ransom payments, which brought in nearly $7.3 million so far this year, the Associated Press reported last month, citing a Philippine government report.
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"The terrorist organization Daesh (Islamic State) from time to time tries to enter the coastal areas from the desert regions and they carry out kidnappings of civilians, and we are conducting surveillance on them," said LNA spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari.
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A new kind of terror Nigeria is currently beset with insecurity woes; as well as the spate of kidnappings, there is a 10-year battle against Boko Haram in the northeast and a growing pastoral conflict in its central states.
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After 52 years of pitched conflict that claimed the lives of some 2300,252 people (the majority civilians), displaced 222 million more, and saw families torn apart by thousands of kidnappings, Colombia's historic transition to peace has stumbled, but remains on course.
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Prosecutors suspect the officers ordered undercover informants to set up kidnappings and robberies with suspected criminals in order to catch and kill them under the pretense of legitimate uses of force, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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He told VICE that the previous weekend one of his drivers was detained with a shipment, and that he couldn't afford to lose another one as the list of kidnappings, revenge plots, and murders in recent months continued to grow.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A series of kidnappings and murders on Afghanistan's highways has some officials and travelers questioning the NATO-backed strategy that reduced security check posts protecting roads in order to free up police and soldiers to go after the Taliban.
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The agency advises that all of Afghanistan is unsafe for a plethora of reasons: kidnappings, hostage taking, suicide bombings, widespread military operations, landmines, and terrorist attacks — including attacks using vehicle-borne, magnetic, or other improvised explosive devices, suicide vests, and grenades.
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While the United States military has said that Abu Sayyaf has links with Al Qaeda and has received support from it, many analysts characterize the group mainly as a ruthless criminal organization, focused on profiting from kidnappings rather than ideology.
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At least when they committed their bombings, larceny, extortion, and kidnappings in the ghettos of the city's Italian immigrant working class, law enforcement seemingly paid the group—which often sent threatening letters with its namesake symbol to victims—no mind.
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The ninety-minute piece draws on two momentous incidents in Nigeria: the Women's War of 1929, when black women challenged colonial British power, and, eighty-five years later, the Boko Haram kidnappings, which sparked the Bring Back Our Girls movement.
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Good founded The Charley Project—named after Charley Ross, the victim of one of the first highly-publicized kidnappings in the US—in 2004 when she was just 19 years old, and has worked on it almost every day since.
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Nigeria has said repeatedly that it has defeated Boko Haram, a group of insurgents that has carried out kidnappings, bombings and murders throughout the northeast portion of Nigeria, as well as in areas across the borders of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested the leader of a civil rights movement who for nearly two years has challenged the country's powerful security forces by demanding they be held accountable for extrajudicial killings and kidnappings, his colleagues said.
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Second, the mayor's office was able to successfully create points of entry and exit in important parts of the municipality in order to ensure control, security and reduce attempts of kidnappings throughout the city, another big problem present in Venezuela.
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The insurer, which underwrites a range of risks from oil refineries to kidnappings, said gross written premiums rose to $1.16 billion in the three months ended March 31, from $930 million a year earlier, helped by growth in its retail business.
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At the time, he said he was one of the first civilians Mr. Lascañas had recruited into the death squad, originally known as the Lambada Boys, that was responsible for kidnappings, killings and the bombing of a mosque in Davao.
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Haqqani is considered to have introduced suicide bombing to Afghanistan, where it was previously unknown, and his group became notorious for complex, well-organized attacks on both Afghan and U.S. military, as well as civilian targets and high-profile kidnappings.
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The Chicago Police Department's arrest of the "Empire" actor, and his subsequent return to work, could have been taken straight from an episode of the show, which has had plot lines involving murders, kidnappings, car bombs, comas and memory loss.
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Philippine authorities could not immediately confirm the hostage-taking but said a Filipino woman held since September was freed on Friday by Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist militant group that has amassed tens of millions of dollars from kidnappings for ransom.
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No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Aliabad district chief and a spokesman for Kunduz's governor blamed the attacks on Taliban militants, who have been responsible for multiple kidnappings across the country, according to the Associated Press.
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"Although recent violent outbreaks have not impacted oil production, pressure on oil refineries from Islamists or militias along with the threat posed by kidnappings and war-related damage to assets will present risks to any business willing to operate in the country."
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He has, for instance, advised the police in Mexico City on how to deal with kidnappings and murders, instructed business leaders in El Salvador to eradicate their country's rival street gangs and given counsel to the state-run oil company in Qatar.
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Drugs, kidnappings and extortion in the area were once under the control of the Beltrán Leyva cartel, but that group's collapse a few years ago unleashed fierce competition among its progeny and rivals in Morelos and the neighboring states of Guerrero and México.
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"Even speaking with the guerrilla fighters, they can't hide that what they have done for the last 52 years is massacre, kidnappings and extortion," she said in an interview with CNN Español's Fernando Ramos while covering the final FARC conference last week.
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Since then, some have escaped or have been bought back from the militants, but as many as 3,500 remain in Islamic State captivity, according to a recent estimate provided by the office that handles kidnappings in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
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The kidnappings were part of a campaign of attacks last year by the jihadist group whose bid to create an Islamic state in the northeast has killed at least 20,000 people and forced some 2.7 million to flee their homes since 2009.
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He also met relatives of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago to help train spies, calling the kidnappings a "tremendous disgrace" and pledging to work with Abe to bring the victims "back to Japan where they want to be".
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - TV news viewers may recognize one reporter who pops up in trouble spots all over the world: From the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, to the Boko Haram kidnappings in Nigeria, to assorted crises in Mali, Thailand, Algeria and the Mideast.
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Tucked between a chemist and a clothes shop, Causeway Bay Books (pictured) has become the centre of a mystery involving alleged kidnappings by Chinese secret agents, and of a fierce debate in Hong Kong about the former British colony's autonomy under Chinese rule.
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In June 2014, the Mehsud faction announced it was parting ways with central leadership and, after attempts to convince the TTP to give up what it called "un-Islamic" practices, such as attacks in public places and kidnappings, setting up a breakaway group.
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Mass prison breaks, kidnappings, rising militia violence and surging lawlessness since Kabila failed to step down in December have raised fears Democratic Republic of Congo could slip back into the chaos and conflict of the turn of the century that killed millions.
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Other tragedies also drew people in, like the Boston Marathon bombings (27 million+ tweets), the mass kidnappings in Nigeria that gave rise to the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, or the Paris terror attacks which elicited empathy from around the world centered on the hashtag #PrayForParis.
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When I worked overseas kidnappings as a special agent with the FBI, I used to lay in bed at the end of long days in faraway places and aimlessly stare at the ceiling, contemplating the condition and ultimate fate of the captive.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aida Kasymalieva, Kyrgyzstan's youngest female member of parliament, was stunned when her male colleagues walked out as she spoke at a session on women's issues in a nation rife with domestic violence, child marriage and bride kidnappings.
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In a landmark trial that spanned three years and involved the cases of more than 100 victims, a four-judge panel on Friday convicted and sentenced 14 former military officers for their roles in Operation Condor, a scheme of kidnappings, torture and killings.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - The commission meant to expose the truth behind killings, kidnappings, sexual violence and other crimes committed during Colombia's five decades of war officially began work on Tuesday, in a bid to help victims heal from the trauma of the conflict.
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The US State Department recommends reconsidering travel to Pakistan in general and also advises people not to travel to four areas because of militant or terrorist operations, or the possibility of kidnappings: Balochistan Province, KPK Province, Azad Kashmir, and the Pakistan-India border.
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While it has reaped sizable ransoms for the release of hostages, its kidnappings of a Swiss missionary and an Australian doctor and his wife, who were taken the same day as the Splendid Hotel attack, could indicate a need for more cash.
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Today, against all odds — drug cartels, kidnappings, killings, corruption — Mexico City is a world-class luxury getaway, bursting with fine cuisine and hotels, salons and exclusive nightspots, the playgrounds of tourists, celebrities and the sons and daughters of the country's richest families.
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The village of mostly farmers, potters and herders is surrounded by thick forest, and it borders a national park that has been a haven for bandit groups that are accused of kidnappings, armed robbery and stealing livestock from isolated communities like Gwaska.
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"By rejecting asylum seekers at its borders, the United States is turning them away to face danger, persecution, torture, kidnappings and potential trafficking in Mexico," Human Rights First, an organization that has studied the problem, said in a report released on Wednesday.
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Video via YouTube Two mass kidnappings in the troubled Hot Land region of the beleaguered Mexican state of Guerrero have ended with an unusual result — most of the victims have been released following a large rescue operation by the army and police.
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The surge in murders, kidnappings and extortion has hobbled backing for President Enrique Pena Nieto's ruling party ahead of a July 1 presidential vote and helped fuel support for the leftist frontrunner, who is promising to curb violence by fighting corruption and poverty.
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In "The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project," Robert S. Boynton, a journalism professor at New York University, gives us a riveting portrait of these bizarre kidnappings, but offers few clues as to what this project was all about.
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Pakistani media organisations have alleged growing censorship by the military in the run-up to the election, while rights groups have denounced the kidnappings of several social media activists over the past year as attempts to intimidate and silence critics of Pakistan's security forces.
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