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Algeria says 37 foreigners killed in gas plant siege Thirty-seven foreigners of eight nationalities were killed by Islamist militants in a well-planned attack on a remote gas plant, some of them executed with a bullet to the head.

22 January 2013

Algeria: bodies of 25 hostages found after bloodbath Algerian troops reportedly found the bodies of 25 hostages and captured five kidnappers at a remote gas plant after a bloodbath of captives that France called an "act of war" by Islamist militants.

21 January 2013

UN chief condemns 'escalating' violence in Pakistan UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was "appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan," after 19 Shiite pilgrims died in a car bomb and 21 kidnapped soldiers were killed.

31 December 2012

China arrests 90 over child abductions: state media Police have arrested 90 gang suspects across China and freed 28 children who were allegedly kidnapped from the far west and taken to various cities to steal, the China Daily said on Thursday.

23 November 2012

Man charged in Britain over Syria kidnappings British police charged a man with the kidnapping of two Western journalists by Islamic extremists in Syria.

17 November 2012

Nazarbayev signed convention on protection of kidnapped children Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a Law On ratification of the convention on civil-legal aspects of the international kidnapping of children.

14 November 2012

Libya's Misrata tense after death of man who caught Kadhafi Tension gripped Misrata Tuesday after the death of a rebel from the western city who was credited with capturing late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, but who was later abducted and tortured in a rival town.

27 September 2012

Rakhat Aliyev searching for ways to flee to United States Malta Today has recently published an article on the criminal investigation held by Austrian prosecutors into Rakhat Aliyev's case.

29 June 2012

Dutch man tried to kidnap his Pavlodar lover A citizen of Holland tried to kidnap a girl in Pavlodar.

20 February 2012

Kazakh blogger works to save fellow countrywomen from sexual slavery Aiken Adamdayev has already saved one girl who found herself a sexual slave in Turkey. He redeemed her from her “master” for $300.

28 July 2011

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