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Human rights groups on Saturday strongly denounced the Houthis’ abduction of scores of Yemenis working for the UN and for US organizations in Yemen. Yemeni Human Rights Minister Ahmed Arman said on Friday that the Iran-backed militia had…
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A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has traveled thousands of miles to South America to meet his biological mother for the first time. “She…
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Iraq opened an investigation into the case of a dual Israeli-Russian academic who has been missing in Iraq since March, a government spokesman said on Friday. Bassem Al-Awadi’s comments were the first official Iraqi statements since…
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A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent shootout and abduction that was captured on video, officials said Tuesday. The…
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A Buffalo, New York woman’s father and brother kidnapped her from Mexico where she was planning to wed and forcibly took her to Yemen for an arranged marriage, the Justice Department charged Thursday. Khaled Abughanem, 50, and Waleed…
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Jordanian broadcaster Ahlam al-Ajarmeh managed to retrieve her child, who was kidnapped in Istanbul, before a human smuggling gang transported him to Idlib in Syria. The Jordanian broadcaster, residing in Turkey, wrote in a post on her…
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South Africa's corruption watchdog said on Tuesday it will use its subpoena powers to get answers from President Cyril Ramaphosa over allegations he covered up a robbery at his luxury home. The Public Defense Office said Ramaphosa's…
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Swedish authorities are fighting back against claims its social services are “kidnapping” Muslim children, denouncing a “disinformation campaign” of viral videos spreading mistrust among immigrant families. Videos began appearing on…
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Saudi pages on social media circulated a video clip documenting the kidnapping of an Asian worker from a gas station. It was said that the accident took place in Saudi Arabia, while observers said that the license plate of the hijackers'…
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Nigerian authorities confirmed that 136 schoolchildren were kidnapped by gunmen in the north of the country earlier this week, including five-year-old students. The school's owner, Omar Idris, told the Associated Press that "gunmen…
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