https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Dutch man living in Spain was kidnapped and held for 11 days, drugged up, by an eastern European gang that demanded €1.5 million ($1.71 million) in ransom, police said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20170703/dutch-man-kidnapped-and-held-for-11-days-in-spain Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:23:07 +0200 dutch-man-kidnapped-and-held-for-11-days-in-spain A Spanish employee of the Red Cross who was abducted in northern Afghanistan has been released, the international charity said Sunday, nearly a month after he was snatched by gunmen. https://www.thelocal.es/20170116/abducted-spanish-red-cross-worker-freed-in-afghanistan Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:50:09 +0100 abducted-spanish-red-cross-worker-freed-in-afghanistan A young woman in Sevilla has been arrested for pretending that she had been kidnapped and forced into prostitution in order to get money from her mother to pay off her debts. https://www.thelocal.es/20151022/police-arrest-woman-for-faking-own-kidnapping-to-get-money-from-mother Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:50:53 +0200 police-arrest-woman-for-faking-own-kidnapping-to-get-money-from-mother Three Spanish freelance journalists have gone missing in Syria where they were reporting from the northwestern Aleppo region, the head of a Spanish press federation said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150722/three Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:03:40 +0200 three The nine-year-old girl who was held captive for seven months in the depths of the Amazon rainforest has been taken back to her home town in Catalonia, but not yet to her parents. https://www.thelocal.es/20140317/kidnapped-amazon-girl-returns-home Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:31:00 +0100 kidnapped-amazon-girl-returns-home A nine-year-old Barcelona girl who went missing seven months ago has been rescued from captivity deep in Bolivia's Amazon rainforest. https://www.thelocal.es/20140312/kidnapped-barcelona-girl-found-in-the-amazon Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:07:00 +0100 kidnapped-barcelona-girl-found-in-the-amazon