Yemen tribesmen kidnap four French tourists
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped four   French tourists in the east of the country on Sunday to press   for their relatives to be released from jail, Yemeni and French   officials said.
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CAIRO: Iraqi militants last night kidnapped two Frenchmen to protest France&#39;s ban on students wearing Islamic head scarves in schools, according to a tape aired by Al Jazeera TV.
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Ten French tourists were kidnapped Thursday in northern Ethiopia, a businessman and a tour operator who work in the region said.
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The three men suspected of killing four French tourists are linked to a North African affiliate of Al Qaeda.
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
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Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said
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Two French journalists in Iraq have been kidnapped by Islamic militants who say they are protesting against the French government&#39;s ban on wearing the hijab in schools.
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At least four people are being held hostage at a bank in the south of Paris, French TV reports say.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Diplomats investigated Tuesday a report that an Australian oil engineer had been abducted in Yemen by armed tribesmen, but a conflicting report from Yemen said there was no kidnapping.
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Four suicide attackers are killed while trying to blow up oil installations in Yemen, the authorities say.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Authorities in Guinea-Bissau arrest two Mauritanian men over the shooting of French tourists in Mauritania last month.
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Fifteen European tourists were kidnapped in the remote desert of northern Ethiopia, one of the hottest and most inhospitable areas in the world, a diplomat and people in the area said. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that Western tourists have been kidnapped in Ethiopia, but declined to say how many or indicate their nationalities.
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Four suspected Basque separatists, including a key bomb-maker, are held in France, Spanish officials say.
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A French-American journalist has been kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the region's deputy governor said Monday.
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Marxist rebels have abducted up to 10 tourists celebrating Christmas at a lakeside spa in north-western Colombia, officials said. Fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) raided bungalows
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.