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Nigeria says 110 girls missing after Boko Haram attack
The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the northeast, following days of silence on the children’s fate.
Son of drug lord 'El Chapo' abducted at Mexico resort
One of the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is among the half-dozen men abducted by gunmen at a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta,…
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Islamic State group militants have abducted more than 400 civilians following an attack on the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday that left at least 85 civilians and…
‘No evidence missing Mexico students cremated’
Independent foreign investigators refuted Sunday the Mexican government's conclusion that 43 students abducted last year were incinerated in a landfill, tearing apart the…
Gunmen abduct at least 89 boys in South Sudan, UN says
Gunmen in war-ravaged South Sudan have abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in oil-rich Upper Nile State, the United Nations said on Saturday.
Egyptian Christians held in Libya ‘freed’
Thirteen Egyptian Christians held in Libya have been freed, a tribal leader said on Monday after government sources reported they had been abducted by Islamist militants.
Dozens abducted in suspected Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria
At least 17 people were killed in a series of suspected Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria's northeast Borno State Thursday while dozens of young people have been abducted from the…
Video: Inside the manhunt for missing Israeli teens
The Israel Defence Forces granted FRANCE 24 exclusive access to a unit of Bedouin trackers at the heart of Operation Brother’s Keeper, the vast army manhunt to find three Israeli…
Michelle Obama joins Nigeria’s #BringBackOurGirls campaign
US First Lady Michelle Obama has joined worldwide calls for the safe return of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped more than three weeks ago by militant Islamist group Boko Haram,…
Relatives of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls call for foreign help
Little apparent progress has been made in the search for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants three weeks ago, leaving…
The abduction of Libya's prime minister (part 2)
Is it the backlash after a US raid to nab a long-time al Qaeda suspect? A power struggle with Islamist hardliners? Pay demands by militias? The many possible motives behind the…
The abduction of Libya's prime minister
The backlash after a US raid to nab a longtime al Qaeda suspect? A power struggle with Islamist hardliners? Pay demands by militias? The many possible motives behind the…