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Nigerian property crime could be reduced if neighbourhoods were better designed

Nigeria has a very high crime rate. The Global Peace Index ranked it the world’s 17th least peaceful state. Discussion of crime in Nigeria tends to focus on insurgency, terrorism and kidnapping, but other types of crime are thriving too.

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Alleged spy extradited to Germany over 2017 Cold War-style abduction

A man suspected of involvement in the high-profile kidnapping of a Vietnamese businessman in Berlin in 2017 has been extradited to Germany from the Czech Republic, the German federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday.

Reuters

Feds say oil deal woes led to murder of Vermont man

Federal prosecutors say a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of a Vermont man grew out of a financial dispute between the victim and one of the men now charged with arranging to have him killed

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Russian MP suggests kidnapping Nato defence minister following major loss

It comes after Ukraine claimed Russia lost 30,000 troops as well as 40 colonels and 10 generals

Manchester Evening News

Russian lawmaker suggests kidnapping NATO defence minister in Ukraine

A senior Russian lawmaker has suggested kidnapping a NATO defence minister in Ukraine and bringing them to Moscow for questioning about what "orders" the West has been giving to Kyiv.

Reuters

Appellate Court Upholds Trial Court's Rejection of "[Independent] Custody Investigator" Opinion

Among other things, the investigator "appeared to accept Father’s explanation that his 2003 kidnapping conviction based on allegations of domestic violence in a previous relationship was a misunderstanding, not the result of criminal conduct," "[finding] 'credible' Father’s explanation that he 'was unfairly incarcerated based on the lies of the victim…

Reason

Yasin Malik | The poster boy of separatism in Kashmir

The JKLF leader has a complex past of both fighting and engaging India, but he has remained a hardliner when it comes to his ideology

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Texas gunman dubbed 'Yubo school shooter' and threatened to murder before massacre

A 17-year-old girl met Salvadore Ramos on social media app Yubo said in the chatrooms he would 'threaten rape and kidnapping and murder' before the Texas school shooting

Daily Mirror

Migrant back home after 7 years in Mexico jail unsentenced

An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a sentence

The Independent UK

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

Russia's reported abduction of Ukrainian children echoes other genocidal policies, including US history of kidnapping Native American children

Allegations have emerged recently that Ukrainian children are being forcibly removed from their country by Russia. Once there, they are put up for adoption.

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San Jose suspects tried kidnapping baby 3 times before they succeeded, prosecutors say

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two people, including a family friend, accused of kidnapping a 3-month-old San Jose boy last month attempted to take the child at least three times, including one instance in which one suspect posed as a Child Protective Services worker, until they eventually succeeded in late April,…

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400 Mawozo gang leader charged over kidnapping of American missionaries in Haiti

DOJ alleges he directed kidnapping of group including 5 children in attempt to secure his release from prison.

Axios

NSW arrests over Victoria kidnapping

A man and a woman have been arrested in NSW over an alleged botched kidnapping in Victoria's southwest.

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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.

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US indicts Haitian gang leader over missionaries’ kidnapping

US authorities say Joly Germine is a leader of 400 Mawozo gang accused of kidnapping 17 missionaries in Haiti last year.

The Independent UK

Haitian gang leader charged in kidnapping of US missionaries

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year

Reuters

U.S. indicts Haitian national for alleged role in 2021 kidnapping of missionaries

A U.S. grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Haitian national for conspiracy to commit hostage taking in the kidnapping of 16 American missionaries in Haiti in 2021.

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Kidnap suspect loses 3-year war against extradition to Chile

A Chilean woman wanted on kidnapping charges dating to Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s faces extradition from Australia after a court closed her final appeal option

Tribune News Service

Leaders at San Jose church confirm they conducted ritual to rid 3-year-old of ‘evil spirits,’ leading to her death

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Faith leaders at a tiny church in San Jose where a three-year-old girl perished last fall have confirmed that they performed a ceremony on the child to “liberate her of her evil spirits” but say what happened was “the will of God,” not the consequence of…

Miami Herald

Leader of Haiti’s 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped American missionaries, is flown to US

The leader of an infamous gang behind an ongoing armed conflict with another gang in Haiti was flown by federal agents from Port-au-Prince to the United States on Tuesday in connection with last year’s kidnapping of 16 American missionaries.

Newcastle Herald

Inmate charged with allegedly kidnapping corrections officer

A man will face court next month over alleged assault and intimidation offences at a correctional centre in the Hunter.

France 24

World Press Freedom Day: RSF reveals mixed rankings in Africa

In tonight's edition: Human Rights Watch accuses Russian private security forces invited into Central African Republic of killing civilians. We speak to the daughter of Rwandan opposition figure Paul Rusesabagina. The “Hotel Rwanda” hero's family has filed a $400 million lawsuit against Kigali over alleged kidnapping and torture. And our…

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.

Tribune News Service

Alleged members of neo-Nazi prison gang in Alaska convicted of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Five members of a white supremacist prison gang were found guilty Monday in an Anchorage federal court of crimes connected with 2017 kidnappings, assaults and a murder in Alaska.

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