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Muriel McKay, the wife of newspaper executive Alick McKay, was kidnapped after she was mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the then wife of Rupert Murdoch.

The total number of people kidnapped in Nigeria is difficult to determine, as many cases go unreported.

The plan calls for the creation of a “humanitarian committee” to oversee an “all for all” exchange of prisoners, detainees, and kidnapped children.

At a morgue in central Colombia, a young woman mourned her brother, a 16-year-old who was kidnapped by guerrillas and killed in a government bombing last week, she said.

The UN Human Rights Office in Colombia has expressed "deep concern" over military killings of minors who are kidnapped by rebels, usually to be trained as fighters themselves.