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FedEx driver said he hit Athena Strand with truck, strangled her, affidavit says

DALLAS — The FedEx delivery driver who authorities say kidnapped and killed 7-year-old Athena Strand in Wise County allegedly told investigators she was alive after he accidentally hit her with his truck, but he panicked, put her in the vehicle and then killed her, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit released…

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Nigeria resumes Abuja-Kaduna train service attacked by gunmen

Nigeria's state railway company on Monday resumed a popular train service between the capital Abuja and the northern state of Kaduna, suspended since in March after gunmen killed passengers and kidnapped several dozen.

Reuters

Gunmen in Nigeria Kill a Dozen People, Abduct Others from Mosque

Gunmen in Nigeria killed a dozen worshippers, including an imam, and kidnapped several others from a mosque on Saturday night, local residents said on Sunday, in the latest attack by armed gangs in the north of the country. Armed gangs, known as bandits, attack communities where security is stretched, killing…

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Gunmen in Nigeria kill a dozen people, abduct others from mosque

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Sheriff says kidnapping, murder of 7-year-old Texas girl was ‘crime of opportunity’

FORT WORTH, Texas — FedEx driver Tanner Horner is believed to have kidnapped and killed 7-year-old Athena Strand in “a crime of opportunity” while delivering a package outside her home this week, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said.

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Family of Shannon Matthews' kidnapper say they tipped off cops on day one of search

Shannon Matthews was kidnapped in 2008 and her mum and another man were jailed a year later.

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Houthis Escalate Suppression Against Women

The Houthi militia increased its suppression against women in Sanaa, and other areas under its control, amid several accusations of local and international parties accusing the group of escalating its repressive campaigns and committing numerous attacks against Yemenis. The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms revealed in a recent report…

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Woman kidnapped 51 years ago reunited with her family after DNA test

Melissa Highsmith was one-year-old when she was abducted back in 1971.

Daily Record

Woman missing for 51 years is reunited with her family after being kidnapped as a baby

Melissa Highsmith was just aged one when she disappeared in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1971, after her mum placed an advertisement in a local newspaper looking for a babysitter

Daily Mirror

‘Best feeling in the world’: Missing daughter found after 51 years

An American woman has enjoyed an emotional reunion with her family, more than five decades after she was kidnapped as a toddler.

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Melissa Highsmith: Missing Texas woman reunited with family 51 years after being kidnapped by babysitter

DNA test brought family back together more than five decades after 21 month old was snatched

The Independent UK

Texas woman found by family 51 years after being kidnapped as baby

Melissa Highsmith, who family say was abducted in Fort Worth in 1971, located in South Carolina, more than 1,000 miles away

The Guardian - US

Nigerian gunmen kidnap 60 in latest attack in the northwest

Nigerian gunmen kidnapped at least 60 people in a remote community in northwestern Zamfara state who were mostly women observing Prophet Muhammad's birthday, residents said on Thursday in the latest wave of abductions to hit the state.

Reuters

Missing German missionary in Mali feared to be kidnapped

A German missionary who went missing in Mali's capital Bamako on Sunday is feared to have been kidnapped, the city's archbishop said.

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4 plays that dramatize the kidnapping of children during wars

Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced adoption of Ukrainian children by Russians.

Liverpool Echo

Teen girl's dad tracks down sex attacker who kidnapped his daughter outside nightclub

Victim's father traced man who'd taken her from outside nightclub

Manchester Evening News

'You're going to die tonight': Musician kidnapped, ordered to strip and slashed in face during terrifying attack

Robber Paul Edwards has been declared a 'dangerous' criminal

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Delhi: Woman kidnaps infant for 'human sacrifice' to revive dead father, arrested

A woman kidnapped a two-month-old baby and tried to sacrifice it to revive her dead father. She was arrested within 24 hours, and the human sacrifice bid was foiled. Read on for details:

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Catholic priest kidnapped in northern Nigeria, diocese says

A Nigerian priest was kidnapped from his home in northern Kaduna state, the local Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement on Tuesday, in the first such reported abduction of a clergyman in the state since July.

Reuters

Gunmen kidnap dozens in Nigeria, at least 11 killed, residents say

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped at least 80 people and killed 11 others in separate attacks in the northwest, traditional leaders and residents said on Monday, in the latest attacks by armed gangs that have been preying on villages, schools and highways.

The Guardian - UK

‘Our presenter got kidnapped by German pornographers’ – How we made The Word

‘Police surrounded the studio one night because they thought somebody had a gun and was going to shoot Terry Christian’

Reuters

Nine health workers kidnapped in restive northwest Cameroon

Nine health workers have been kidnapped from a government-run hospital in Cameroon's restive northwest, one of two regions where armed separatists have been fighting government troops to create a breakaway state, the local mayor said on Friday.

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Vigilantes at the polls were a threat in the 19th century, too, but the laws put in place then may not work in 2022

Author Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th-century master of American macabre fiction, may have died of dirty politics. According to legend, a gang of party “poll hustlers” kidnapped and drugged him. They forced him to vote, then abandoned him near death. Details are murky, but we do know Poe died in…

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Man kidnapped, bashed in Sydney's west

A 31-year-old man has a suspected broken jaw and numerous cuts and bruises after being kidnapped and bashed in a western Sydney home.

The Independent UK

4 kidnapped, including teen girl and baby, in California

Police have arrested two suspects who allegedly kidnapped four people, including a teenage girl and a 6-month-old baby, last week in Southern California

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