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# kidnapped - Today’s News

From TheJournal.ie Missing Children

The anguish of parents and families highlighted on International Missing Children’s Day

A child going missing is every parent’s nightmare – but what services are available to support the parents and families of missing children?

# kidnapped - Saturday 11 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped This post contains videos

Miracle escapes: The kidnapped children who returned home

Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Elizabeth Smart: All were kidnapped, all returned home.

# kidnapped - Monday 22 April, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped

Afghan Taliban capture Turkish civilians after helicopter lands

Eight Turks and an Afghan from a civilian helicopter which made an emergency landing have been captured by Taliban insurgents.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 19 February, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped

Seven French holidaymakers kidnapped in Cameroon

A family of French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped by a Nigerian terrorist group suspected to be Boko Haram.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 5 February, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Rescue

‘Brave’ five-year-old safe after week-long hostage ordeal

The kidnapper was killed during the rescue operation.

# kidnapped - Wednesday 16 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped

Two kidnapped Dutch children found in Bosnia

Bosnian have located two Dutch children who were kidnapped in the Netherlands last year and arrested their former foster parents.

From TheJournal.ie Algeria

Irish citizen among oil-workers kidnapped from BP plant in Algeria

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has called for the immediate release of an Irish citizen reportedly among those kidnapped from a BP oil field in the south of Algeria.

# kidnapped - Wednesday 19 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Syria

NBC journalist and TV crew escape abduction in Syria

More than a dozen armed gunmen kidnapped and held NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days in Syria.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 20 November, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Ransom

Berlusconi’s accountant held hostage for €35 million ransom

Armed intruders demanded the ransom from the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after holding his accountant hostage for a night.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 6 November, 2012

Hulk’s sister ‘kidnapped’ in Brazil – reports

The player’s mother was quoted by the daily Correio as saying that the family are “waiting for a contact”.

# kidnapped - Sunday 5 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped This post contains videos

VIDEO: Syria rebels say hostages are elite soldiers from Iran

The rebels say that the Iranians kidnapped yesterday are actually Revolutionary Guards and not pilgrims, as was originally claimed.

# kidnapped - Saturday 4 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Middle East

48 pilgrims from Iran kidnapped in Syria – reports

The 48 Iranians were abducted by armed terrorists who boarded their bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

# kidnapped - Friday 6 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Argentina

Argentina jails former dictators over stolen baby scandal

Infants were illegally taken from their political prisoners parents 30 years ago.

# kidnapped - Thursday 31 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Nigeria

German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria killed

Reports of the killing say it’s unclear if the hostage was killed before or during a failed rescue attempt.

# kidnapped - Monday 7 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Pakistan

Al-Qaeda releases video of American hostage

In the video, hostage Warren Weinstein says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group’s demands.

# kidnapped - Wednesday 18 April, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Texas

Nurse charged with murder after woman shot, baby snatched

The three-day-old boy was taken from his mother after she was fatally wounded outside a Houston hospital.

From TheJournal.ie Baby Snatched

Three-day-old baby abducted as mother lay fatally wounded

The infant was found later yesterday after being grabbed from his dying mother.

# kidnapped - Sunday 25 March, 2012

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# kidnapped - Thursday 22 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Free

Kidnapped British woman freed by Somali pirates

Judith Tebbutt and her husband David were kidnapped in September. David was killed during the attack – a fact Judith, who spent six months in captivity, did not find out until weeks after.

# kidnapped - Sunday 18 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Iraq This post contains videos

US citizen released by Iraqi captors

However, confusion surrounds release of man who says he was kidnapped after serving with the US military in Iraq.

# kidnapped - Thursday 15 March, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Found

Parents to be reunited with son eight years after he was kidnapped

US authorities found the boy living with his former babysitter in Texas.

# kidnapped - Friday 25 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Mali

Three tourists kidnapped, another killed in Mali

The four were in a restaurant in Timbuktu when four armed men forced them out of the building.

# kidnapped - Friday 11 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Syria

Syrian violence takes an even bloodier turn

Syrians have been snatched from their homes and killed during Syria’s bloodiest month yet in its eight-month-old uprising.

# kidnapped - Saturday 5 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Gardaí

Gardaí searching for abducted man find body in Co Meath

Twenty-nine-year-old Ciarán Noonan was abducted from the East Wall area of Dublin on 20 October.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 18 October, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Philadelphia

Three charged over alleged imprisonment of four people in Philadelphia basement

The four adults aged between 29 and 41 were found locked in a basement boiler room on Saturday.

# kidnapped - Sunday 2 October, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Kidnapped

Suspected pirates take Frenchwoman from Kenya to Somalia

Kenyan and French authorities are working to free Marie Dedieu from her captors in Somalia. She was abducted amid a shoot-out on the sea yesterday.

# kidnapped - Saturday 10 September, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Saturday

All of the day’s main news, plus the little bits and pieces you may have missed…

# kidnapped - Thursday 9 June, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Blogger

Doubts over the identity of kidnapped Syrian blogger

Images used to portray the blogger Amina Arraf have been revealed as those of a London woman, who says she’s never met Arraf.

# kidnapped - Tuesday 7 June, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Syria

Gay Syrian blogger kidnapped by armed men

Amina Arraf, author of ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ had written posts and given them to her cousin in case anything happened to her. Her family believe she is alive and well.

# kidnapped - Friday 29 April, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Guilty This post contains videos

Girl who was kept captive for 18 years says she’s “relieved” by her kidnappers’ guilty pleas

Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched from the street she lived on in June 1991, and was kept hidden in a back garden for 18 years. She gave birth to two daughters during that time.

# kidnapped - Friday 15 April, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Gaza This post contains videos

Body of Italian peace activist found in Gaza

Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted and strangled by an Islamic group with ties to Al Qaeda.