https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/10/04/child-kidnappings-that-captured-our-attention
Oct 26, 2021 - They don't happen often, but when they do, child abductions by strangers can capture Americans' attention like few other crimes. A look at notorious...
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/06/04/suspected-mastermind-of-french-crypto-kidnappings-arrested-in-morocco_6742008_13.html
The French-Moroccan national, Badiss Mohamed Amide Bajjou, is accused of orchestrating abductions of cryptocurrency tycoons, which included the mutilation of...
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https://www.dw.com/en/nigerias-school-kidnappings-highlight-lawlessness-in-north/video-74876756
Nov 28, 2025 - For years, heavily armed criminal gangs in Nigeria's north have carried out kidnappings for ransom. The recent spate of kidnappings has led to the closure...
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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/nigerias-govt-didnt-end-christian-school-kidnappings.html
The bodies of innocent Nigerians now testify to the truth: the government did not end school kidnappings.
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https://warehouseworkers.org/los-angeles-organizations-are-suing-ice-to-stop-illegal-kidnappings/
Jul 10, 2025 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On July 2, 2025, the Los Angeles Worker Center Network (LAWCN), a coalition of eight worker organizations including the Warehouse...
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/250557/number-of-kidnappings-due-to-terrorism/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
In 2023, a total number of 3,921 people were kidnapped as a result of terrorism.
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/25/nigeria-renewed-spate-of-school-kidnappings
Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete...
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https://www.capitalbay.news/tinubu-declares-national-emergency-nigeria/
Nov 27, 2025 - Nigeria President Tinubu orders 50,000 police recruits and VIP guard redeployment to combat insecurity
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https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-law-criminals-crypto-kidnappings-france
May 29, 2025 - As fear spreads through France’s crypto community, some industry figures say the EU’s regulations of exposing holders to greater risk.
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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/south-america/how-cocaine-and-corruption-led-to-maduro-s-indictment-according-to-us-20260105-p5nrmy.html
Jan 5, 2026 - The Venezuelan president ran a corrupt government fuelled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the US with cocaine, newly unsealed indictment says.
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https://fortune.com/2026/01/04/us-criminal-charges-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-wife-kidnappings-beatings-murders/
Jan 4, 2026 - Maduro’s wife is also accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in 2007.
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