Allegedly abducted S. Korean, mom reunited
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A South Korean man allegedly abducted by the North has met his mother for the first time in more than 25 years.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- A Swedish toddler was reunited with his weeping father in a Thai hospital yesterday, days after the 18-month-old was found sitting alone on a roadside in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. The boy's mother is among some 5,000 people still missing in Thailand.
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SEOUL -- North and South Korea are restoring ties during talks this week following the communist country's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor, paving the way for restoration of aid to the North and reunions for families split by the divided peninsula.
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Kidnappers have freed the mother of Robinho, six weeks after seizing her at gunpoint from a party in Sao Paulo. Marina Lima de Souza, 43, was found in the west of the city overnight, according to Brazilian news reports.
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Police say they believe a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously disappeared from a friend's home over the weekend was kidnapped.
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Officials investigating the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea return with documentation.
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A couple speak of their relief at being reunited with their toddler who was in a car stolen from their home.
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An 11-year-old boy who had been taken from his school by a convicted child molester was reunited with his family Saturday while dozens of police searched for the kidnapping suspect in Georgia.
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Nineteen South Koreans held captive by Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban for six weeks under threat of death arrived home on Sunday, saying they felt as if they had died and then got their lives back.
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A South Korean man was arrested and accused of spying for South Korea and obtaining information from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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The woman who accused NBA star Kobe Bryant of assault called her mother the day after the incident and begged her to come home. There, the woman said: "Mom, I was raped last night," according to previously sealed documents released Friday.
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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South Korea's spy agency confessed on Wednesday to the most notorious kidnapping in the country's history, saying that in 1973 it snatched opposition leader and later Nobel laureate Kim Dae-jung in Tokyo.
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A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said. Baby Mychel Darthard-Dawodu's security bracelet was removed, the hospital administrator said. Police are hunting the suspected kidnapper -- a 5-foot-3-inch African-American woman seen on security cameras in pink nurse's scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
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Five people including a Korean American have been charged by South Korean prosecutors with spying to aid the communist North in the largest espionage case since the two Koreas began political reconciliation in 2000.
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About 20 South Korean Christian volunteers are feared to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
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The South Korean government was checking  reports that one or two of its nationals may have been  kidnapped in Iraq, Foreign Ministry officials said on Sunday.