A girl abducted in 1991 as an 11-year-old has been found alive in California, the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.

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A boy bit "the rope around his hands and escaped from his kidnappers," according to the Huashang Daily, as cited on China Daily's website.

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Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam.

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Police have smashed an elderly gang of suspected kidnappers aged between 60 and 79 preying on Germany's greying population.

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What if the kidnappers have used the Indian nuclear scientist Lokanathan Mahalingam to penetrate the Indian nuclear arsenal and use the material for a future attack on Washington or New Delhi?

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The truth is that the three murdered Pakistani Baloch politicians had become a political liability and a security risk for Brahamdagh Bugti and a threat to his entire infrastructure of terror inside Pakistan.

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Police in southern Germany say they rescued a small child from the clutches of kidnappers who had planned to blackmail the family for several million euros in ransom money.

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Eight kidnap victims being held in a rural area east of the city were rescued by members of the Mexican military, Mexico's National Defense Secretariat announced Wednesday. One of the suspected kidnappers was killed in the raid.

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Jirga Struggling For Release of Former BBC Employee

DIR: Local elders in Dhog Dara area of District Dir Upper are negotiating with the kidnappers of Akhtar Jan Kohistani, a former BBC employ ee and Afghan national to ensure his release.

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Kidnappers in Mexico City killed a five-year-old child by acid injection after discovering they were sought by police, local prosecutors say.

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GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents shot dead a South Korean hostage in Afghanistan on Wednesday and threatened to kill 22 others, but a deadline passed without word from the kidnappers or the Afghan government.

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Save the Chickens...Save the World: An Update

I know it's been a while since I've updated on the plight of Dr. Frank and Sheila. I've been so down and depressed about their situation, and my hand in it, that I've been confined to bed with nothing but a bottle and a box of tissues.

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One day after House Majority Leader Hoyer (D-MD) told Democrats to band together to oppose all Republican motions to recommit legislation, the House Democrats defeated an amendment to prohibit felons such as murders, kidnappers, and sexual offenders from receiving some taxpayer f …

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THE slave traders came for 10-year-old Akash Aziz as he played cops and robbers in his dusty village in eastern Punjab. Akash, still in the maroon V-neck sweater and tie that he had worn to school that day, was a "robber".

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