Several thousand protesters rallied in Bucharest on Saturday after Romania's police chief was fired over the murder of a 15-year-old girl who had made three emergency calls to report her own kidnapping and given clues to her whereabouts. Critics allege that officials failed to take ...
Japan hopes latest Trump-Kim meeting will help get nuclear and abduction talks moving again
Japan expects the latest meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to move forward stalled denuclearization negotiations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday. "Japan has supported the U.S.-North Korea process since the two countries' (first) summit in Singapore (in ...
Man, 64, arrested for kidnapping teenage girl in Kanagawa and demanding ¥20 million ransom
A 64-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping a teenage girl near Tokyo and demanding ¥20 million (about $186,500) in ransom, police said. Isao Kimura is suspected of forcing a 16-year-old high school girl into his car in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Monday evening ...
Ghanaian security forces on Wednesday freed two young Canadian women who had been kidnapped at a golf club in the city of Kumasi last week, the government said. "National Security Operatives in the early hours of Wednesday 12 June, 2019 completed an operation which successfully ...
Exiled Thais behind protest music fear for their lives in Laos after spate of disappearances
Members of a Thai folk music group now living communally in Laos fear for their lives. The musicians from the band Faiyen fled their homes in 2014, afraid of arrest after a military coup overthrew the elected government. Their music was their crime. Drawn into the polarized ...
The U.S. Department of State has removed Japan from its list of countries said to be showing a pattern of noncompliance with the so-called Hague Convention on cross-border parental child abduction. In an annual report released last week, the department noted Japan's legislative efforts to ...
French commandos die freeing French and unexpected U.S., Korean hostages in Burkina Faso
French commandos rescued four foreign hostages, including two French citizens, from a militant group in Burkina Faso, France's military said Friday, adding that two of the elite soldiers were killed in the night-time operation. French special forces carried out the raid under cover of dark ...
A young man's claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests, the FBI said Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved. For a day and a half, a breakthrough seemed ...
American kidnapped on Ugandan safari, with $500,000 ransom demanded
An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda's most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding a ransom of $500,000, police said on Wednesday. Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and Ugandan driver Jean Paul were on a game drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park ...
Wisconsin kidnapping suspect targeted girl after seeing her get on bus, police say
A Wisconsin man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months made up his mind to take her when he spotted the teenager getting on a school bus near her home, authorities said Monday. Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, told detectives ...
Former kidnap victims say Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs needs space, time to heal
Katie Beers' joy quickly turned to deep concern when she learned 13-year-old Jayme Closs had been found alive in rural Wisconsin nearly three months after police say a man shot and killed her parents and then abducted the girl from their home. "She is going ...
Norwegian millionaire's wife likely abducted, ransom demanded: police
The wife of a Norwegian multimillionaire missing for 10 weeks has probably been kidnapped and a ransom has been demanded for her release, police said Wednesday. Married to a real estate and energy magnate, Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, 68, disappeared on October 31, police said. "A ransom ...
