Girl recovers after Nigeria kidnap
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Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill is recovering in Nigeria after she was released by kidnappers who had held her for four days.
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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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BUKAVU, Congo  - Speaking softly, tears welling in   her eyes, the 16-year-old Congolese girl tells how she was   abducted from her home by militiamen, taken to the forest and   gang raped for a week.
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Freed Slovak student Miriam Jevikova, kidnapped in the north Caucasus region in June, has returned to Slovakia.
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The three-year-old daughter of a British worker is seized by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police say.
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A 3-year-old Nigerian  boy has been kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in  southern Nigeria, police said on Thursday, four days after a  British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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A Polish woman freed after being taken  hostage in October in Iraq said on Saturday her captors had  treated her well.
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Gunmen released a British hostage in Nigeria but a Filipina became the latest kidnap victim in the oil-rich Niger Delta where the taking of foreigners shows no sign of letting up.
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Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman   kidnapped at the age of 10 and held captive for eight years,   says she is recovering from her ordeal and is ready to face the   outside world.
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Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill is reunited with her parents after a four-day hostage ordeal.
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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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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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All seven foreign hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq by a militant group since October has been freed and said on Saturday her captors had treated her well.
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A 10-year-old girl missing overnight in "awful" weather conditions in west Wales is found safe and well.
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A Polish woman hostage abducted in Iraq more than three weeks ago was back home after being released by her captors who she said had treated her well.