Two boys, mother kidnapped in Venezuela
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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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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages, including a 3-year old boy, from leftist rebels in Colombia's jungles fell apart Monday as the guerrillas accused Colombia's military of sabotaging the promised handoff.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting four men and freeing a group of hostages held in the getaway vehicle.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela, angered by the  capture of a top Colombian rebel it says was kidnapped from  Caracas in a Colombian police operation, said on Thursday it  had recalled its ambassador from Bogota.
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Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels arrive in Venezuela after several years in captivity.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday to start a sensitive mission to collect two women politicians and a young boy held hostage for years by Marxist guerrillas.
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BAGHDAD - An armed Islamic group kidnapped two Australians and two East Asians in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, the Dubai-based television broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a two-storey house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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A seven-year-old Lebanese boy has been kidnapped on his way home from school in Iraq by militants demanding a $US150,000 ($A203,693) ransom for his release, Lebanese officials said today.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.    The three were employed by Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, and were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col...
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan province of Wardak, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the international agency Doctors Without Borders, their driver and a local official said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A top Colombian rebel  captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela,  possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation  of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse  Chacon said on Wednesday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 12 -- Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed Thursday after being held captive for years by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife Caesarean and has not seen him since he was taken from the jungle at 8 months old.
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An elite anti-kidnapping force has rescued a 9-year old boy who was snatched seven months ago by leftist rebels, authorities said Wednesday.