Little progress has been made on efforts to repatriate Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a historic visit in 2002.
The man charged with kidnapping a 9-year-old French girl who went missing during a wedding in the Alps has admitted she got into his car but denies abducting her, his lawyer said Monday. Maelys de Araujo vanished in the early hours of Aug. 27 in ...
French police have detained a man for questioning in connection with the search for a 9-year-old girl who went missing at a weekend wedding party in the Alps. The man was detained Thursday, said an official close to the police investigation who spoke on condition ...
The presiding judge in the trial of a man accused of the 2014 high-profile kidnapping of a girl who managed to escape her captor last year postponed handing down a ruling Tuesday after the 25-year-old suspect threw the hearing into confusion with his erratic ...
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it along with Islamic State insurgents allegedly massacred around 50 civilians, officials said Tuesday. "This evening 235 people including women and children were released from Mirzawalang as a result of mediation by ...
Calling act ‘malicious and well-planned,’ prosecutors at the Saitama District Court say Kabu Terauchi acted out of a desire to observe how his victim behaved in captivity
An Illinois man was charged Friday with abducting a Chinese student who investigators believe is now dead, a court document showed. Brendt Christensen, 28, was arrested by FBI agents in Champaign on Friday. He will remain in custody until he appears in federal court Monday ...
North Korea has a well-thumbed playbook for detained American citizens who are valuable diplomatic bargaining chips for the regime, but the case of Otto Warmbier, flown home in a coma last week, is a glaring exception. The script is simple and familiar: arrest an American, ...
The former head of an elementary school parents’ association is indicted for allegedly murdering a Vietnamese girl who attended the school in Chiba Prefecture.
North Korea recently detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, in the latest case of an American being held in the country. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang said it was aware of a Korean-American citizen being detained recently, but could not comment further. The embassy ...
A leader of a militant group who was directly involved in the kidnap and execution of Canadian and German nationals was among those killed by Philippine troops in a clash on a resort island this week, the military said on Wednesday. Troops killed at least ...
A Pakistani military court has sentenced an alleged Indian spy to death, the Defense Ministry announced Monday, drawing an angry reaction from India. The ministry, in a press release, said the man identified as Kulbushan Sudhir Jadhav, was tried and convicted by a military court ...
