Brazilian crime group kidnaps reporter
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Brazil's most notorious organized crime group kidnapped a television reporter and forced his station to broadcast a video Sunday in which the gang called for improvements in Brazil's prison system.
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A Peruvian journalist described on Friday the horror he felt being kidnapped by President Alberto Fujimori's security squad in 1992, hours after the former leader shut down Congress during a war against leftists.
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Two boys who hold Italian citizenship have been kidnapped along with their Venezuelan mother in the South American country, the Italian Embassy said Friday.
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An Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq will be released in a few days, according to an Internet statement posted Monday in the name of the militant group alleged to be holding her.
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Armed men kidnap the mother of Robinho, one of Brazilian football's brightest young stars.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox.
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An Islamist militant group in Iraq  claimed responsibility for kidnapping an Italian journalist and  threatened to kill her by Monday, following a kidnap claim from  another group, according to an Internet statement.
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The Taleban say they have kidnapped an Italian journalist and two Afghan nationals in south Afghanistan.
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A BBC correspondent was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on Monday by unknown assailants, Palestinian police sources said.
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A Sudanese newspaper editor who was   kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded on Wednesday,   a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in   the capital Khartoum, an Interior Ministry source said.
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An armed group has kidnapped an  Arab-Israeli employee of CNN news network in the Gaza Strip, Al  Jazeera television reported on Monday.
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A French journalist is abducted in northern Somalia by unidentified gunmen, sources say.
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Italy is investigating whether an Italian journalist abducted in Iraq was seized by insurgents or by ordinary criminals hoping for a ransom, a top Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
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A kidnapped American journalist was released Sunday after the intervention of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr, even as his Shiite militia engaged
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An Iraqi armed group has kidnapped an Italian journalist missing since last week and has threatened to kill him unless Italy withdraws its troops from Iraq in 48 hours, al-Jazeera reported.
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KIDNAPPERS have freed the mother of one of Brazilâs most exciting young footballing talents 40 days after they seized her at gunpoint, amid reports that a ransom was paid.
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Two young Italian women kidnapped in Iraq last week have been taken by their captors to the flashpoint city of Fallujah, according to an Italian newspaper that quoted non-Italian intelligence services.