Priest kidnapped in Philippines
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An Italian priest is abducted by armed men near a coastal village in the southern Philippines.
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A noted Haitian priest was arrested for allegedly stirring up recent violence that claimed some 50 lives, Haitian TV reported Thursday.
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A British charity worker is reportedly kidnapped in Iraq.
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Dozens of U.S.-trained commandos have joined the search for an Italian Roman Catholic priest taken captive by Muslim gunmen in the troubled southern Philippines, the country's military chief said on Thursday.
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Giancarlo Bossi, the Italian priest  abducted last month in the Philippines, has been released.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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A Romanian priest who witnessed a mugging followed and caught the three-man gang responsible.
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Three Filipinos working for a U.S. oil contractor were kidnapped in southern Nigeria early Friday, a day after a German was abducted in the region where oil revenue has caused strife between multinational companies and local communities.
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A local court in the Philippines has   freed a British man on trial for sexually abusing young girls   after three witnesses disappeared, a Roman Catholic priest said   Wednesday.
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Insurgents kidnapped a Catholic archbishop and targeted security forces in a series of brazen assaults Monday that killed more than 20 people. A suicide bomber attacked U.S. Marines in Ramadi, where insurgents also beheaded two Shiite Muslims and left their bodies on a sidewalk.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Philippines Bureau Chief Twink Macaraig. MANILA : Time is running out for three hostages snatched by a Taliban splinter group in Afghanistan.
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Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday that Margaret Hassan, who has been working
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Gunme n abducted an American missionary as he left a church near the capital and have demanded a ransom for his release, United Nations police said yesterday. Nathan Jean-Bieubonne, a US citizen of Haitian descent, was seized Sunday afternoon , UN police spokesman Fred Blaise said. Blaise said a UN task force was working with Haitian police to ...
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Up to 30 people are kidnapped from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in central Baghdad, officials say.
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The wife of a prominent Nigerian politician has been kidnapped in the oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.
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U.S. federal agents arrested a Filipino dentist who is one of the five most wanted leaders of a kidnap-for-ransom gang in the Philippines, a Philippine police officer said Sunday.