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Venezuela In Diplomatic Row With Peru After Controversial Football Match
The government of Venezuela lambasted Peru on Wednesday following a controversial football match, at one point accusing Lima of kidnapping its national team by refusing to allow the aircraft bringing the players home to refuel.
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Kerala Gold Smuggling Accused Claims Her Colleague Has Been Kidnapped
The prime accused in the sensational gold smuggling in diplomatic bags case was on Wednesday morning allegedly forcibly taken away from the residence of Swapna Suresh, another accused in the case.
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Pak Foreign Minister Dials Counterpart In Kabul As Afghanistan Recalls Diplomats
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday telephoned his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Haneef Atmar and assured him of taking all steps to arrest the culprits involved in the kidnapping of the daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador.
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Afghanistan Recalls Ambassador To Pakistan Following Kidnapping Incident
Afghanistan on Sunday said it was recalling its ambassador to Islamabad and all senior diplomats over "security threats" after the top envoy's daughter was briefly kidnapped in the Pakistani capital this week.
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India Summons Pak Diplomat, Protests Hindu Woman's Kidnapping: Sources
The Union government today summoned a senior official from the Pakistan High Commission to register its protest against the alleged abduction of a Hindu woman midway through her marriage ceremony at Hala city in the neighbouring country's Sindh province two days ago.
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Delhi Man, 91, Strangled, Body Moved Out In Fridge; Help Among 5 Arrested
Five men have been arrested for killing a 91-year-old former government employee, who was kidnapped from his south Delhi home on Saturday after he was locked in a refrigerator in an unconscious state, police said.
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"Was Torture": Ex-French Spy Who Helped Dubai Princess Escape Blames India
The former French intelligence officer who helped Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa escape from the UAE has now lodged a case with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alleging that India violated diplomatic conventions when it helped Emirati officials take the 33- year-old royal back home.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav Must Not Be Executed, ICJ (UN Court) Tells Pakistan: Highlights
The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...
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Call For Release Of Sierra Leone Diplomat Kidnapped In Nigeria
Nigerian security officials are questioning the driver of Sierra Leone's kidnapped deputy high commissioner, an official in Freetown said Saturday.
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Tunisia Consular Staff Kidnapped in Libya Have Returned Home: Taieb Bakouch
Ten Tunisian diplomatic staff kidnapped by gunmen from the consulate in Libya's capital a week ago have been freed and are back in Tunisia, Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Bakouch told Reuters today.
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India Confident of Rescuing Kidnapped Aid Worker in Afghanistan
Abducted in Afghanistan, Indian aid worker Alexis Prem Kumar is safe. India is confident of getting him rescued unharmed soon, according to a top Indian diplomat in Kabul.
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Jihadists Kidnap Turkish Consul, 24 Staff in Iraq: Police
Jihadists seized the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday and kidnapped the head of the diplomatic mission and 24 staff members, a police colonel said.
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UN Blacklists Nigeria's Boko Haram, Imposes Sanctions: Diplomats
The United Nations blacklisted and imposed sanctions on Boko Haram as an al Qaeda-linked terror group yesterday, a month after it claimed the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls.
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Nigeria Asks for UN Sanctions on Boko Haram
Nigeria asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the armed Islamist group that claimed the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, and list it as a terrorist group, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Jordanian Ambassador to Libya Freed
Jordan's kidnapped ambassador to Libya has been freed by his captors, has left the country and is on his way home, a Jordanian cabinet minister said today.
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Venezuela In Diplomatic Row With Peru After Controversial Football Match
The government of Venezuela lambasted Peru on Wednesday following a controversial football match, at one point accusing Lima of kidnapping its national team by refusing to allow the aircraft bringing the players home to refuel.
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Kerala Gold Smuggling Accused Claims Her Colleague Has Been Kidnapped
The prime accused in the sensational gold smuggling in diplomatic bags case was on Wednesday morning allegedly forcibly taken away from the residence of Swapna Suresh, another accused in the case.
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Pak Foreign Minister Dials Counterpart In Kabul As Afghanistan Recalls Diplomats
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday telephoned his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Haneef Atmar and assured him of taking all steps to arrest the culprits involved in the kidnapping of the daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador.
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Afghanistan Recalls Ambassador To Pakistan Following Kidnapping Incident
Afghanistan on Sunday said it was recalling its ambassador to Islamabad and all senior diplomats over "security threats" after the top envoy's daughter was briefly kidnapped in the Pakistani capital this week.
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India Summons Pak Diplomat, Protests Hindu Woman's Kidnapping: Sources
The Union government today summoned a senior official from the Pakistan High Commission to register its protest against the alleged abduction of a Hindu woman midway through her marriage ceremony at Hala city in the neighbouring country's Sindh province two days ago.
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Delhi Man, 91, Strangled, Body Moved Out In Fridge; Help Among 5 Arrested
Five men have been arrested for killing a 91-year-old former government employee, who was kidnapped from his south Delhi home on Saturday after he was locked in a refrigerator in an unconscious state, police said.
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"Was Torture": Ex-French Spy Who Helped Dubai Princess Escape Blames India
The former French intelligence officer who helped Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa escape from the UAE has now lodged a case with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alleging that India violated diplomatic conventions when it helped Emirati officials take the 33- year-old royal back home.
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Kulbhushan Jadhav Must Not Be Executed, ICJ (UN Court) Tells Pakistan: Highlights
The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...
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Call For Release Of Sierra Leone Diplomat Kidnapped In Nigeria
Nigerian security officials are questioning the driver of Sierra Leone's kidnapped deputy high commissioner, an official in Freetown said Saturday.
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Tunisia Consular Staff Kidnapped in Libya Have Returned Home: Taieb Bakouch
Ten Tunisian diplomatic staff kidnapped by gunmen from the consulate in Libya's capital a week ago have been freed and are back in Tunisia, Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Bakouch told Reuters today.
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India Confident of Rescuing Kidnapped Aid Worker in Afghanistan
Abducted in Afghanistan, Indian aid worker Alexis Prem Kumar is safe. India is confident of getting him rescued unharmed soon, according to a top Indian diplomat in Kabul.
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Jihadists Kidnap Turkish Consul, 24 Staff in Iraq: Police
Jihadists seized the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday and kidnapped the head of the diplomatic mission and 24 staff members, a police colonel said.
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UN Blacklists Nigeria's Boko Haram, Imposes Sanctions: Diplomats
The United Nations blacklisted and imposed sanctions on Boko Haram as an al Qaeda-linked terror group yesterday, a month after it claimed the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls.
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Nigeria Asks for UN Sanctions on Boko Haram
Nigeria asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the armed Islamist group that claimed the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, and list it as a terrorist group, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Jordanian Ambassador to Libya Freed
Jordan's kidnapped ambassador to Libya has been freed by his captors, has left the country and is on his way home, a Jordanian cabinet minister said today.
