Nigerian militants say Lebanese hostage escaped
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A Lebanese hostage escaped from his captors in the remote creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta and was not freed as his employer had said, the militant group that seized the man said on Thursday.
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British hostage Ken Bigley escaped briefly from his captors shortly before they beheaded him in Iraq, insurgent sources said Saturday.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six  hostages seized on October 26 from an Italian offshore oil  production facility, private security contractors working for  oil companies said on Tuesday.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Three Lebanese men and their Iraqi driver have been kidnapped in Iraq, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Sunday, as Iraq's prime minister said his government was working for the release of two Americans and a Briton also being held hostage.    Gunmen snatched the three Lebanese, who worked for a travel agency with a branch in Baghdad, as they drove on the highway between the capital and Fallujah on Friday night, a ministry official said...
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An attempted escape at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg of South Africa has been thwarted and the warders held hostage have been freed, a warder said on Monday.
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Armed gunmen have abducted a Lebanese-American contractor from his Baghdad home, CNN reported Wednesday. The contractor, who reportedly works for the US Army in the Green Zone
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Lebanese troops fought al-Qaida-inspired militants who attempted to flee a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Sunday, killing 15 and capturing 15 others, officials said.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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Gunmen kidnapped a  Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing  Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the  anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate  incident.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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Nigerian militants have  abducted a Dutch oil worker in the southern delta state of  Bayelsa, police said on Thursday.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped  Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates  were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an  unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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Kidnappers have released a 7-year-old Lebanese boy after a week they grabbed him as he was walking home from school in Iraq, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Friday. It was not immediately clear if a ransom was paid.
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Iraqi kidnappers have freed two Lebanese  men who were taken hostage west of Baghdad last month, Beirut's  foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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The families of Islamist militants are evacuated from a refugee camp besieged by Lebanese troops.
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Twenty-four Filipino hostages shuddered as dozens of armed Nigerian militants danced around them. The hostages are being held as part of a wider rebel campaign over Nigeria's distribution of oil wealth. In an exclusive report, the hostages tell CNN's Jeff Koinange they are OK. The rebel leader says this is just the beginning of their battle.