Nigeria captors free British man
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A British man held hostage in Nigeria's Delta region is released, apparently because of his poor health.
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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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Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill is recovering in Nigeria after she was released by kidnappers who had held her for four days.
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Four US nationals kidnapped this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, official and diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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A British man who once came within days of being executed was released from an Ohio prison Monday after spending more than 21 years on death row, court officials said.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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Nigerian gunmen have released a British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday.
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The two British soldiers, held in Tanzania for more than 40 days for allegedly murdering a local young woman, were discharged from murder trial and set free from police
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A British toddler was released by gunmen in southern Nigeria on Sunday and reunited with her parents, who said she was fine but hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
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Police free a man at a hotel in Milton Keynes after he was taken hostage in the Limehouse area of London.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, July 5 -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school Thursday and kidnapped the  3-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria's increasingly lawless oil region.
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A British hostage was killed in a military operation in Nigeria on Wednesday which released six other hostages, the Italian foreign ministry said.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted in a nightclub raid in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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Nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped last month in the restive southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa were freed, a senior government official involved in the deal told AFP.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted from a nightclub in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.