A top Italian court has convicted 23 American former CIA agents plus two Italian nationals for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in Milan. The court handed down prison sentences to all those convicted.
A court in southern Germany has ordered the arrest of an elderly Frenchman over the kidnapping of a German doctor convicted of killing his daughter 27 years ago, prosecutors say.
Retired Argentine general Jorge Olivera Rovere was sentenced Friday to life in prison for crimes committed during the 1979-1983 dictatorship, including the assassination of two Uruguayan lawmakers.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday that a French employee had been kidnapped in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur. Sudanese officials say the abducted worker is in "good health".
In this edition: Interpol releases arrest warrants for four officials wanted in connection with the kidnapping of politician Ben Barka back in the 1960s; press censorship in Morocco; a focus on Algeria's Socialist Forces Front.
France has suspended the international arrest warrants it issued Friday for four Moroccans over the 1965 abduction of a high-profile opponent to Morocco's then King Hassan II, an event that has embarrassed the two nations for four decades.
A British soldier was killed during a rescue operation to free New York Times journalist Stephen Farrell (photo), who was captured and held hostage by the Taliban for four days in Afghanistan. Farrell's interpreter Sultan Munadi was also killed.
NATO troops freed a kidnapped New York Times reporter in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday after he had been held for four days. Reporter Stephen Farrell was abducted on Saturday along with his Afghan interpreter, whose fate remains unknown.
In this edition: A final goodbye to the lion of the Senate, Edward Kennedy; kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard, free after 18 years, reveals the grim details of her ordeal; a report on Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, the world's most dangerous city.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, formed a close bond with her kidnapper during her 18-year captivity and helped him with his printing business, according to local media reports.
