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Incoming small town Mexico mayor kidnapped, killed (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - A mayor-elect from the Mexican state of Veracruz was kidnapped and killed along with two companions on Monday, local media reported.

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Ex-prosecutor’s kidnapped brother shown on video (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Patients of El Camino rehab center stand outside it guarded by a soldier after unknown gunmen opened fire inside the center in Tijuana, Mexico, early Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. According to the police at the crime scene, at least 13 people were killed during the incident late Sunday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A video posted online Monday shows the kidnapped brother of a former Mexican state attorney general saying at gunpoint that he and his sister worked for a drug…

British aid worker kidnapped in Somalia freed (AP)

October 20th, 2010

AP - A Somali group that kidnapped a British aid worker released the man on Wednesday after clan elders intervened, a spokeswoman for Save the Children said.

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Obama pledges probe in kidnapped Briton’s death (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a press conference in Downing Street in London, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, where he said aid worker Linda Norgrove, 36, who died in Afghanistan during a rescue attempt, may have been killed by her American rescuers, rather than her Taliban captors. Cameron said that Gen. David Petraeus had told him Norgrove was possibly killed by a grenade detonated by a member of the U.S. rescue team. But he says the full facts have not been established.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)AP - President Barack Obama promised “to get to the bottom” of a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces that ended in the death a captive British aid worker…

20 kidnapped in Mexican resort city of Acapulco (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

Women walk at the place where 20 people where kidnapped the last Thursday in Acapulco October 2, 2010. An armed gang kidnapped a group of about 20 people in Mexico's Pacific city of Acapulco, Mexican media said on Saturday, the latest blow to the iconic beach resort that has been stained by drug violence.br /<br /></a> REUTERS/ Jesus Trigo (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST)AP - Gunmen kidnapped 20 men who were traveling together in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday.


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3 French employees kidnapped from ship off Nigeria (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - Pirates in speedboats attacked a ship in an oil field off Nigeria, kidnapping three French employees from the marine services company Bourbon, officials said Wednesday.

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3 French employees kidnapped in ship off Nigeria (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - Three French employees of marine services company Bourbon have been kidnapped in an attack on one of its ships in an oil field off Nigeria, the company said…

Nigeria: Vocal supporter of president kidnapped (AP)

August 29th, 2010

AP - Nigerian police say kidnappers seized a man who claims be to the son of the nation’s first prime minister.

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Nigeria: son of former prime minister kidnapped (AP)

August 29th, 2010

AP - Nigerian police say kidnappers have taken the son of the nation’s first prime minister.

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5 kidnapped Afghan campaign workers found dead (AP)

August 29th, 2010

AP - An Afghan official says villagers have found the bodies of five kidnapped campaign workers for a parliamentary candidate in the western province of Herat.

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