abduction
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The latest abduction highlights the risks faced by young people travelling across Nigeria to do their national youth service and has renewed calls for reforms.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
She joined the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office in 2007, eventually working in the domestic violence and child abduction units.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Josh Baker enters a dangerous world of fear, greed and betrayal as he uncovers what happened in one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time - the abduction of Austin Tice.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Thor for thunderstorms, shrieking Sirens to explain shipwrecks, the abduction of Persephone the reason behind the bleakness of winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
And that was what Baby Kochamma in Inspector Thomas Mathew’s office, enhanced and embroidered into threats of murder and abduction.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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