0132 GMT December 06, 2019
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Six Nigerian schoolgirls and two staff members have been released unhurt three weeks after they were kidnapped from their dormitories in northern Kaduna state, regional authorities said Saturday.
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Armed pirates have attacked a Turkish cargo vessel off the coast of Nigeria, taking nearly a dozen sailors, all Turkish nationals, hostage for ransom.
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Ugandan police said they had rescued an American woman and her driver who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a national park.
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A 21-year-old man has been charged with murdering the parents of an American teen as part of a calculated plot to kidnap her, police said on Friday, after 13-year-old Jayme Closs was found alive following three months in captivity.
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Five of the 12 Iranian border guards, who were kidnapped by terror groups in southwestern Iran, were freed and returned Iran, wrote Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in a statement on Thursday.
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More than 80 people, mostly children, have been kidnapped from a school in a restive English-speaking region in Cameroon as violence continues to plague government efforts to reach a settlement with separatists.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Pakistan vowed to increase its military presence on the common border after terrorists kidnapped 12 Iranian border guards and took them to Pakistan.
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Dar es Salaam police chief implicated foreigners in the crime during a press conference, adding they had “shot into the air” before bustling billionaire Mohammed Dewji into their car.
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Foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants have reportedly abducted nearly two dozen children from the city of Jisr al-Shughur in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib to use them in a fake chemical attack and then put the blame on Syrian government forces.
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Two Filipino women have been kidnapped on a road linking the Iraqi capital Baghdad to the Kurdish city of Erbil, security and local officials say.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry said there is enough evidence to indicate that four Iranian diplomats abducted in northern Lebanon in 1982 were being held captive in Occupied Palestine.
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An administrative official was snatched over the weekend from one of Cameroon's restive English-speaking regions in the second such kidnapping in a fortnight, state media reported on Monday.
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Around half of the members of the Izadi minority group kidnapped by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials say.
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One of four British missionaries kidnapped in a remote part of Nigeria three weeks ago was killed, but the other three released, the Foreign Office said.
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Turkish officials announced the release of two Iranian nationals from the captivity of kidnappers in the city of Istanbul.
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