Foreign hostages freed in Nigeria
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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 Lebanese hostage abducted with three Italians in southern Nigeria has been freed after being held for more than 10 weeks, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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Hostage takers in Nigeria's restive oil region have released an American oil worker captive, police said Sunday.
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Two Egyptian hostages were freed after a month in captivity, their employer, the telecom giant Orascom, revealed.
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says.
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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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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Militants released 12 foreign hostages in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta as a prelude to peace talks with the government, a state government spokesman said.
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Four kidnapped expatriate staff members of Franco-American oil services group Schlumberger were freed late Saturday in the south of Nigeria, an industry source said.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants released seven foreign hostages Wednesday after their employer paid $500,000 ransom, while France mustered support from Muslims at home and abroad to push for the release of two French journalists still held captive in Iraq.    The U.S...
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Ten Turkish hostages held captive by a group in Iraq since last month have returned to their company&#39;s offices in Baghdad. &quot;We can confirm that the 10 Turkish hostages have been freed.
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Nine Chinese oil workers abducted last month by militants in an armed attack in Nigeria's southern delta were released on Sunday, officials said.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six Indian and Polish hostages seized on October 26 from an offshore oil production facility operated by Saipem, the Italian firm's parent company Eni said on Tuesday.
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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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A three year-old British girl kidnapped last week in southern Nigeria has been freed, Rivers State chief of police Felix Ogbaudu and the British foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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Militants in Nigeria reportedly free 10 Indians more than two weeks after their abduction near Port Harcourt.