Kidnapping

04 November 2021, Australia, Carnarvon: Ellie Smith carries her daughter Cleo Smith, 4, as they leave a house where she spent her first night after being rescued in Carnarvon, 900km north of the capital Perth in Western Australia. Cleo Smith has been found alive and well by West Australian police, more than two weeks after she disappeared from her family's tent at a remote West Australian campsite. A 36-year-old man from Carnarvon was charged with various offences relating to the abduction. Photo: Richard Wainwright/AAP/dpa.

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KIDNAPPING

Charges filed after 4-year-old kidnap victim Cleo freed in Australia

The Nomad Today/dpa 11/4/21

The girl vanished from a tent at the Blowholes campsite after the family arrived on 16 October

05 August 2021, Poland, Warsaw: Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya speaks during a press conference in Warsaw after arriving on Wednesday evening. Timanovskaya was allegedly kidnapped by the Belarusian authorities in Tokyo in an attempt to force her to fly back to Belarus from the Olympic Games following comments she had made on social media criticizing the Belarusian coaches. Photo: Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

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TOKYO OLYMPICS

Two Belarusian coaches removed from Olympic Village amid runner case

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/6/21

The IOC said that Artur Shimak and Yury Maisevich's accreditations were removed on Thursday night

HANDOUT - 04 August 2021, Austria, Vienna: Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (L) meets with Austrian State Secretary Magnus Brunner at Vienna International Airport. The runner was granted a humanitarian visa by Poland's embassy in Tokyo, following what she described as an attempted kidnapping to forcibly repatriate her after she criticized Belarusian sports officials. Photo: Florian Schrötter/BKA/dpa.

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TOKYO OLYMPICS

Timanovskaya lands in Vienna as IOC opens case against Belarus

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/4/21

Timanovskaya said they told her in Tokyo she would have to return home early because of critical comments she made on social media

25 May 2021, Poland, Warsaw: Demonstrators hold portraits of Belarusian political prisoners during a protest in front of the embassy of Belarus to demand freedom for political prisoners detained in Belarus after the arrest of Roman Protasevich, a prominent Belarusian opposition Journalist. Photo: Aleksander Kalka/ZUMA Wire/dpa

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'STATE HIJACKING'

Fears grow that detained Belarusian journalist subject to torture

The Nomad Today/dpa 5/26/21

Lufthansa, Air France and Finnair are the latest airlines to announce that they would be avoiding flying over Belarus for the time being.

Ukraine, Lutsk: An elderly woman, a teenager and a pregnant woman leave the bus where a heavily armed man holds more than ten people hostage on a bus. All hostages aboard a bus were freed as authorities stormed the vehicle and captured the armed attacker. Photo: -/Ukrinform/dpa

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All hostages freed from Ukrainian bus as armed attacker captured

The Nomad Today 7/22/20

Thirteen hostages had been aboard the vehicle in the stand-off of more than 12 hours with the attacker, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun and a grenade, according to the authorities.…

Charges filed after 4-year-old kidnap victim Cleo freed in Australia

Two Belarusian coaches removed from Olympic Village amid runner case

Timanovskaya lands in Vienna as IOC opens case against Belarus

Fears grow that detained Belarusian journalist subject to torture

All hostages freed from Ukrainian bus as armed attacker captured

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