Ugandan parents await abductees
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Dozens of people abducted by a Ugandan rebel group are due to be flown home, hoping to be reunited with families.
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Police warned parents to closely watch their children Saturday as authorities searched for the kidnapper of a 13-year-old boy.
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Uganda's government separates those fleeing from its neighbor by tribe in order to keep down simmering tensions
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Nigerian authorities on Friday stepped up efforts to secure the release of a three-year-old British girl after her kidnappers threatened to kill her unless her father takes her place.
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Ten of 139 girls abducted eight years ago by rebels in Uganda have escaped in recent months and will return to their boarding school after years in captivity.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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Four thousand miles away, in the heart of rural Uganda, tailor Margaret Angoro is carrying out last-minute preparations for Christmas
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan &#151; Knots of anxious parents crowded Friday around a large green board where officials said they would post information on the missing from the deadly siege of the Red Mosque.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - The family of a three-year old British girl abducted in Nigeria began negotiating her release on Friday with kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless their ransom demands are met.
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Ethiopian and UK officials are working to secure the safe return of five British people kidnapped four days ago.
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Children rescued after police carried out raids against crime gangs could soon be reunited with their families.
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Absent parents who fail to make maintenance payments could have their passports confiscated under plans.
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Uganda's leader stresses that international arrest warrants must remain until rebels prove they want peace.
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The parents of the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann said today they were clinging on to the hope that their daughter was safe and being looked after by someone who wanted a child of their own.
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A Sri Lankan couple ordered to undergo DNA tests to prove their claim to a baby survivor of the December tsunamis said they were hopeful of winning custody of the child despite being arrested for trying to snatch him.
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Relatives of 12 Nepalese workers missing in Iraq were desperately seeking information after an Islamist website showed alleged pictures of them in captivity.
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The parents of a four-year-old British  girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort three weeks ago  hope to meet Pope Benedict later this week, a spokesman for the  family said on Sunday.