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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — A Dutch employee of the international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders was abducted in southern Russia, officials said Tuesday. The Dutch citizen, Arjan Erkel, was seized by three gunmen in the suburbs of Makhachkala late Monday, said Abdul Musayev, spokesman for the Interior Ministry in the Russian republic of Dagestan, which borders on Chechnya. A duty officer of the Federal Security Service in Dagestan said Erkel was abducted after leaving his translator's home. Doctors Without Borders, which goes by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement that Erkel was on his way home when...