Grandparents and child kidnapped
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A couple and their grandchild are taken hostage at their home in the Greater Belfast area.
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A toddler abandoned in Australia 10 days ago was reunited with her grandmother in New Zealand on Tuesday, while police in the United States stepped up the hunt for her fugitive father.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school yesterday and kidnapped the 3-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria's increasingly lawless oil region.
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One Briton and two Americans were kidnapped early yesterday from their house in an affluent suburb of Baghdad in a well-organised operation which highlights the risks to foreign
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than &#36;39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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Police warned parents to closely watch their children Saturday as authorities searched for the kidnapper of a 13-year-old boy.
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BAGHDAD : Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year&#39;s invasion became the latest victims of a five-month-old hostage crisis.
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Gunmen abducted Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s 75-year-old cousin and the cousin&#39;s daughter-in-law from their home in Baghdad, Allawi&#39;s spokesman said in a statement e-mailed from the capital.
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A girl found abandoned in Australia by her fugitive father is reunited with her grandmother.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman  for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing more than 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest ever robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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Young child of Securitas cash depot manager was kidnapped at gunpoint, Old Bailey hears.
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Five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians have been kidnapped by an unidentified group in northeastern Ethiopia, police announced here Friday, after conflicting reports that up to 20 foreigners had been abducted.
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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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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities said.
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Detectives in the US have arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbour's one-year-old son and demanding a $200,000 (Â£100,000) ransom.