June 10, 2023
Partisans in the central highlands of Papua who want to liberate Papua from Indonesia, after he landed a commercial plane in the mountainous region of Nduga. In a new video posted by the group on Friday, a visibly emaciated Mr. Mertens holds the banned Morning Star flag, a symbol of West Papua’s independence, and is
READ MOREMore than 30 women have been abducted by separatist rebels in Cameroon to protest illegal taxes levied on them by militants, the government said on Tuesday. The women were taken from Babanki, a farming village in the northwestern region along the Nigerian border, said Simon Emil Muh, a senior official in the area. “We have
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More than 30 Cameroonian women have been abducted by separatist rebels in the northwestern region for protesting taxes imposed on them by militants. The Central African nation has been plagued by violence since separatists rebelled in 2017. The military said the separatists illegally collected monthly payments from children, women and men, forcing families to pay
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Key points Dr. Kenneth Elliott was kidnapped in 2016. He was released and returned home to Perth with his family. Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham praised officials for his release. An Australian doctor has been released after being held captive in West Africa for more than seven years. Kenneth Elliott, 88, from Perth, is
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This week’s “Dateline” follows a mother, a private detective, and armed bounty hunters as they try to rescue teenagers from the sex trade underworld in Texas. Watch Babies for Sale Tuesday, April 18 at 9:30 pm on SBS or live on SBS On Demand. Robin Corey drives down a busy Houston street in search of
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More than 30 children have been reunited with their families in Ukraine after a lengthy operation to repatriate them home from Russia and the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. An estimated 19,500 children have been taken to Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine last February. Kyiv authorities have called the deportation illegal, while Russia has denied that
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self-proclaimed Canada crypto king, accused of defrauding investors and causing tens of millions of dollars in damages, was allegedly kidnapped in the middle of the night in December, driven and tortured for three days while begging his landlord to pay a $3 million ransom, according to news reports. citing new documents in the bankruptcy case.
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A French journalist and an American aid worker held hostage in West Africa were released on Monday. Niger officials unexpectedly announced on Monday morning that Olivier Dubois and Geoffrey Woodk had taken a special flight to the country’s capital, but gave no further details. US officials said the American hostage was released not in Niger
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A second senior Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis has authorized hundreds of thousands of euros to be spent on ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Mali. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, third-in-command of the Holy See in the Vatican, told
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CNN — More than a month after a 63-year-old US citizen was kidnapped from her home in Mexico, the FBI has announced. $20,000 reward for information about her whereabouts. Maria del Carmen Lopez was abducted on February 9 from Pueblo Nuevo, a municipality in the southwestern Mexican state of Colima, the local FBI office in
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