Three men jailed for five years for robbery and kidnapping
Paphos criminal court handed down five-year prison sentences to three men aged 34, 30 and 29 charged with robbing and kidnapping a 36-year-old man last...
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After 24-year search, Chinese man reunited with kidnapped son
A man has finally reunited with his abducted son after a 24-year hunt across China, handing out missing-person flyers, that burned through his savings and...
Third man arrested for kidnapping and robbery
Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Monday to facilitate investigations into the robbery and kidnapping of a 33-year-old man which happened last month in Larnaca....
Remand for kidnapping suspect
A 34-year-old man was remanded on Monday for six days at Limassol district court in connection with kidnapping and indecent assault against a 31-year-old woman....
Remand for 35-year-old in missing man case
A 35-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Monday in connection with the disappearance of another man, and conspiracy to kidnap and murder. The...
Three-day remand for 55-year-old woman (Updated)
A three-day remand was issued by the Paphos District Court against a 55-year-old woman in connection with a kidnapping and robbery. On Monday evening, a...
Mother who allegedly kidnapped her son, 7, arrested
A woman who was wanted for the alleged kidnapping of her son from the legal guardianship of the welfare services was found and arrested on...
Man tells police he was robbed and kidnapped
A 25-year-old Indian man told Larnaca police on Monday that he had been robbed of €1,500, kidnapped and held captive in a farm. According to...
Kidnapping suspect to face trial before criminal court
A 35-year-old man suspected of kidnapping two boys, 11, from their school in Larnaca last week was on Thursday referred to trial before a criminal...
Second kidnapping suspect released
A 41-year-old man detained last week in connection with the abduction of two schoolboys, 11, was released on Monday without being charged. The man, who...
Second kidnapping suspect remanded
A 41-year-old man arrested in connection with the abduction of two boys, 11, from a Larnaca school on Tuesday, has been remanded in custody for...
Police arrest second suspect in connection to boys’ abduction
Police arrested a 41-year-old man on Friday in connection to the kidnapping of the two 11-year-old boys from a Larnaca school on Tuesday. The man...
Remand extended for two in kidnap case
A Nicosia district court on Friday morning ordered the remand of two men for three more days in connection with the kidnapping of four-year-old girl...
Islamic State captures up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqis – UNHCR
Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR...
Eight-day remand for suspected child abuser (Updated)
A 48-year-old man who was arrested on Tuesday in Limassol in connection with kidnapping and indecently assaulting a minor, was remanded for eight days. An arrest warrant...
Mother charged with kidnapping her son
The 35-year-old woman from the UK who was arrested on Wednesday after being reported by her former partner for taking their eight-year-old child out of...
Colourful Australian MP’s adviser charged over bizarre kidnap plot
By Jane Wardell and Byron Kaye A senior media adviser for Australian lawmaker and mining magnate Clive Palmer, whose party holds the balance of power...
Israel finds bodies of three missing teens in West Bank
By Jeffrey Heller Israeli forces found the bodies of three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday after a nearly three-week-long search and...
California woman abducted at 15 found alive a decade later
By Dan Whitcomb A woman abducted from her suburban Southern California home when she was 15 has been found alive after a decade-long ordeal of physical and...
Nigeria reward to find schoolgirls
By Tim Cocks Nigerian police offered a 50 million naira ($300,000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue of more than 200...