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Adelaide woman bundled into car boot by kidnappers tells of impact on mental health

A woman who was assaulted and kidnapped in Adelaide's northern suburbs nearly two years ago describes the lasting impact of the crime, including being unable to sit in the back seat of a car because it is too close to the boot.

ABC News

How to be a CEO: Terry Waite & Dr Wolfgang Seidl on managing stress

It’s been 35 years since Terry Waite was kidnapped while trying to negotiate the release of British hostages in Lebanon.

Evening Standard

Exclusive excerpt: 'The Magicians of Mazda' by Ashwin Sanghi

Bestselling Indian author Ashwin Sanghi is back with a new book this month! Titled 'The Magicians of Mazda', the book is a part of his chart-topping 'Bharat Series'. Hailed as Sanghi's "most gripping and provocative novel yet" by publisher HarperCollins India, the book travels backwards-- through the epochs of Islamic…

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Minor raped by neighbour in Surat

SURAT: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by her neighbour in the wee hours of Friday. The Pandesara police have detained one suspect.

The Times of India

Three Italians kidnapped in southern Mali, church says

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali, their church said on Friday.

Reuters

As more doctors are kidnapped in Haiti, more hospitals protest by refusing new patients

The kidnapping-for-ransom of two more doctors in Haiti, where a pediatrician on Friday marked her 16th day in captivity, is prompting hospitals and physicians in the capital to close their doors and turn away new patients in protest.

Miami Herald

Delhi: Daughter could have been saved if cops acted early, says Rape survivor’s dad

NEW DELHI: The father of the 13-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by 4-7 men has alleged that his daughter could have been saved much earlier had police taken his complaint on time.

The Times of India

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Two men convicted after schoolgirl kidnapped, raped and beaten with nunchucks

Friends Abdul Howe and Ajani Williams forced 17-year-old victim to record voice note saying she had consented to sex before she was freed

The Independent UK

Haitian gang leader ‘Yonyon’ indicted in DC for role in kidnapping of 16 Americans

The leader of a Haitian gang that kidnapped 17 American and Canadian missionaries on the eastern outskirts of Port-au-Prince last October was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia.

Miami Herald

Official: 8 Turkish citizens kidnapped from bus in Haiti

A diplomatic official tells The Associated Press that eight Turkish citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti’s capital

The Independent UK

Official: 8 Turkish Citizens Kidnapped from Bus in Haiti

Eight Turkish citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, an official told The Associated Press on Monday, apparently the latest in a string of high-profile kidnappings by powerful gangs. Hugues Josue, Turkey’s honorary consul in Haiti, said the group had boarded a bus in the neighboring Dominican Republic and were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Group including Turkish missionaries has been kidnapped in Haiti: reports

A group of people including at least eight Turkish missionaries has been kidnapped in Haiti after traveling by bus from the Dominican Republic, according to Haitian and Dominican media, amid a wave of gang violence in Haiti.

Reuters

Seeing the unseen: A somber tour through one of Baltimore’s ugliest chapters of enslavement

BALTIMORE -- There is no evidence at Oriole Park at Camden Yards that people were sold at the site. In 1858, Joseph S. Donovan, one of Baltimore’s major slave dealers, built a slave pen near the southwest corner of Eutaw and Camden streets. It was one of about a dozen…

Tribune News Service

Andhra Pradesh: Six-year-old girl kidnapped, raped in Anakapalle

VIJAYAWADA: In yet another incident of crime against children in Andhra Pradesh, a six-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a neighbour when she along with her elder sister went out to relieve herself in the fields under Narsipatnam police station limits in Anakapalle district on Thursday night.

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Reuters

Pope gave green light to secret deal to free kidnapped nun, court told

Pope Francis approved a secret million-euro operation to free a Colombian nun who was held captive for more than four years by an Islamist militant group in Mali before she was released in 2021, a cardinal told a Vatican court on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Cardinal says Pope authorized €1M payment to free kidnapped nun

A cardinal has testified that Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali

Reuters

U.S. indicts four people for conspiring to smuggle arms to Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang

U.S. prosecutors have indicted three Haitians and one U.S. citizen for conspiring to smuggle arms to Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, which last year kidnapped a group of missionaries from the United States and Canada.

Reuters

Dominican diplomat freed four days after Haiti kidnap

A Dominican diplomat was kidnapped in Haiti and released after four days, the Dominican Republic's foreign minister said on Monday, in an abduction that coincides with a spike in gang violence in the Caribbean country.

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Miami Herald

Dominican diplomat is kidnapped in Haiti as violence between rival gangs intensifies

A diplomat assigned to the Dominican Republic’s Port-au-Prince embassy is Haiti’s latest kidnapping victim, a senior Haitian government official has confirmed.

Reuters

Nigeria train kidnappers using victims as human shields -president

Armed gangs who kidnapped dozens of passengers in an attack on a train in northern Nigeria are using civilians as human shields, making it difficult for the military to carry out a rescue mission, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday.

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Basti police & STF rescue 13-year-old boy kidnapped for Rs 50 lakh ransom

LUCKNOW/GORAKHPUR: Basti police and the Special Task Force (STF) rescued 13-year-old boy Akhand Kasoudhan, son of a cloth trader, from Gorakhpur, a week after he was kidnapped and a demand of Rs 50 lakh in ransom was made for his safe release.

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Basti police, STF rescue minor boy kidnapped for Rs 50 lakh ransom

Dynamite News

UP: STF rescue kidnapped boy; two accused arrested

The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police has rescued a boy kidnapped from Basti district. Full story on Dynamite News:

Daily Mirror

Brit, 22, missing in Ukraine 'told friends he was OK' before he was captured by Russians

Dylan Healy was reportedly kidnapped by Russian forces in south Ukraine on Monday. The 22-year-old has not contacted anyone on social media since

Liverpool Echo

Warrington humanitarian worker 'kidnapped' by Russians in Ukraine

Paul Urey has reportedly been taken along with another British volunteer

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