All posts tagged "Disappearance"

The Pima County Sheriff's Department was forced to respond Tuesday as TMZ reported it had received an unverified "ransom" demand in the abduction of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother.

TMZ said it received the demand on Tuesday but had not confirmed whether the ransom note was authentic.

"The note, which was sent to us Tuesday morning, demands a specific substantial amount of Bitcoin ... the amount is in the millions, and the note demands the cryptocurrency be sent to a specific Bitcoin address," TMZ reported. ...

In 2004, the Bush administration flew twenty billion dollars of shrink-wrapped cash into Iraq on pallets. Now the bulk of that money has disappeared. The funds flown into the war zone were made up of surplus from the UN's oil-for-food program, as well as money from sales of Iraqi oil and seized Iraqi assets. Recent estimates had the amount of missing money at about $6.6 billion, but according to Al Jazeera, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi says the figure is closer to three times that amount.

WASHINGTON– The United States expressed concern Tuesday over the disappearance of prominent Chinese lawyers and activists in China.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – The Taliban said Sunday that one of two American soldiers missing since Friday had been killed in a gun battle with the insurgents, while the other was captured alive.