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K&R News

2012-09-01 | Chile Admits Irregularities in Identifying Disappeared Persons
Santiago, Chile, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) Chilean authorities admitted today the persistence of irregularities in the identification of bodies of the disappeared, with the resulting trauma for relatives, victims of the genocide committed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). These irregularities will mean that 14 families will have to return the remains of those they thought were their beloved ones, as already happened in 2006, according to www.biobiochile.cl.

2012-09-01 | Henderson teen abducted at home, ransom demanded
Melissa Duran disappeared about 7:30 a.m. after answering a knock at the door of her family's house near Warm Springs Road and Valle Verde Drive. Two men took the 17-year-old and sped away in a red sedan. They later called the girl's mother and demanded the ransom, police said.

2012-09-01 | NYC seeking to identify Potter's field bodies with help of DNA
They are the unidentified or unclaimed dead who have been found around the nation's largest city — often with little hope of a loved one ever knowing their fate. Now, with advances in DNA technology and anthropology and with new federal funding, the city medical examiner's office has exhumed dozens of the bodies in a new push to identify several decades' worth.

2012-09-01 | September 19, 2012 Lunch Discussion: Kidnap, Ransom and Extortion
San Diego, CA, 08/29/12 – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on September 19, 2012 with guest speaker Reginald King, the West Coast Regional Manager of Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion Insurance with Chartis Insurance.

2012-09-01 | The International Day of the Disappeared draws attention to the fate of the world’s missing
Tens of thousands of people around the world are missing today because of armed conflicts or human rights abuses such as abductions and illegal arrests and detentions.

2012-08-28 | Pirates kidnap 24 in gunfight off Togo coast
LAGOS: Pirates attacked an oil tanker Tuesday off the coast of Togo, taking control of its bridge and kidnapping 24 Russian sailors before escaping amid an exchange of gunfire with a naval patrol boat, officials said.

2012-08-28 | Freed Kuwaiti hostage welcomed back home – Houti narrates kidnap ordeal, denies any ransom paid
Houti was kidnapped in front of his house in Housh Al-Ghanam village in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley last Saturday. The kidnappers contacted the father of his Lebanese wife (he is also married to a Kuwaiti and an American) and demanded $2 million in ransom for releasing him. After intense pressure was put on the kidnappers from the Lebanese government, Houti was released without paying any ransom. “As far as I know, I was told that no ransom was paid to release me, although I was kidnapped for money and not for any political or religious reason,” he stated after his arrival yesterday.

2012-08-27 | Security forces free Kuwaiti after manhunt in eastern Lebanon
BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces freed a Kuwaiti man from his captors Monday, two days after his kidnapping in east Lebanon, Interior Minister Marwan Charbel has said.

2012-08-25 | Kuwaiti man latest Lebanon kidnap victim
A security official said there had been a number of kidnappings for ransom that are unrelated to political tensions or the conflict gripping neighbouring Syria.

2012-08-25 | Mexico to probe shooting that left 2 US government officials injured
The two American workers were taken to a hospital in the nearby resort city of Cuernavaca. One had a gunshot wound in his leg and the other was wounded in the stomach and a hand, said a Mexican government official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hospital officials in Cuernavaca said the wounded were later transferred to a hospital in Mexico City in stable condition.