Kidnapping

Nigeria School Abduction
Onyeka Chieme, a student of St. Mary's Catholic School, abducted by gunmen and later released, poses for a photograph at his house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Afolabi Sotunde)

Kidnapping

Dramatic storytelling gives a child’s eye-level view of Nigeria school abduction

DEC. 19, 2025

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In this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, Calif. Emma Tsurkov, the sister of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago, says the U.S. government and other nations must do more to work to bring her home. (AP Photo/Eric Tucker)

hostage

Long-running source work gives AP a jump on release of Israeli-Russian doctoral student

SEPT. 19, 2025

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Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched near the Delta community of Money, Miss., in 1955, is shown in an undated portrait. AP broke the news that a team searching for evidence in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse in June 2022 found the unserved warrant for the white woman whose unproven accusations led to his kidnapping and death. Relatives of Till want authorities to finally arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)

Civil rights

AP Exclusive: Unserved 1955 arrest warrant discovered for woman at center of Emmett Till case

JULY 8, 2022

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Children stand in the courtyard of the Maison La Providence de Dieu orphanage it Ganthier, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Oct. 17, 2021, where a gang abducted 17 missionaries — 12 adults and five children — of U.S.-based Christian Aid Ministries. The 400 Mawozo gang, notorious for brazen kidnappings and killings took the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian after a visit to the orphanage. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn)

Carribean

AP team delivers sweeping all-formats coverage of missionaries’ kidnapping in Haiti

OCT. 29, 2021

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Bride trafficking

Trafficked Myanmar ‘bride’ escapes Chinese captivity – but loses her son

SEPT. 14, 2018

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