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...
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US offers to help Nigeria in hunt for abducted girls
By Lesley Wroughton The United States said on Thursday it had offered to help Nigeria in its search for around 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants from a school...
Nigeria rebels abduct more than 100 schoolgirls
By Felix Onuah and Lanre Ola Suspected Islamist insurgents abducted more than 100 female students in a night raid on a government secondary school in Nigeria’s northeast Borno...
Jordanian envoy kidnapped in Libya
By Feras Bosalum The driver survived the attack and was in hospital, spokesman Said Laswad said. A Jordanian foreign ministry source said they believed that the incident...
Jealousy leads to false kidnap claim
WELFARE services have been called in after a ten-year-old girl falsely claimed that she had been a victim of an attempted abduction on Tuesday evening...
Pakistan militants kidnap 11 teachers in polio vaccination campaign
By Jibran Ahmad Militants kidnapped 11 Pakistani teachers involved in a polio vaccination campaign for school children on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a...
Three women held for 30 years rescued from house in London
By Belinda Goldsmith Three women claiming to have been held in captivity as domestic slaves for 30 years have been rescued from a house in...
Greek police arrest second Roma couple suspected of child abduction
By Renee Maltezou A second Roma couple have been arrested in Greece on suspicion of abducting a child, just a week after the discovery of...
Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro found hanged in jail cell
By Kim Palmer Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive for years...
High-profile attacks on women in Afghanistan undermine rights campaign
By Jessica Donati and Mustafa Andalib Taliban fighters have kidnapped a female parliamentarian who was travelling by car through Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province with her...
