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Tennis Legend Becker Freed From Prison, Returns to Germany

December 16, 2022
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LONDON—German tennis legend Boris Becker has returned to Germany after serving eight months in prison in Britain, his lawyer said Thursday. The 55-year-old German, who has lived in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday morning and traveled back to Germany shortly thereafter. Becker “has thus served his sentence and is not subject to any…

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US Contractor Freed by Taliban in Swap for Drug Trafficker

September 19, 2022
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WASHINGTON— An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years has been released in exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States, the White House said Monday. Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was abducted in…

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Kidnapped North American Missionaries Freed in Haiti

December 16, 2021
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After 61 days held captive in Haiti, 12 Christian Aid Ministries missionaries have been freed, according to a short statement Thursday from the Ohio-based mission organizer. Originally, 17 of its workers were abducted on Oct. 16 while on a trip to visit an orphanage supported by the organization. Since then, kidnappers released five people, and now…

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