No hostage release before Nigerian polls: militants
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Separatists holding two Italians and a Lebanese national hostage in the volatile Niger Delta said they would not consider releasing them until after elections due in May.
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Iraqi interim government officials and the country&#39;s election commission have all but ruled out demands by Sunni Arab parties to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for January
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Authorities insisted they won&#39;t give in to militants&#39; demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed
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Nigeria's VP will not be allowed to run for president in April's polls, election commission officials say.
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Militants in Iraq are threatening to kill two Turkish hostages if their company does not withdraw from the country within three days, Turkish media reported Wednesday.
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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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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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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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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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Nigeria's government denied responsibility for a delay in pulling its forces out of the disputed Bakassi peninsula as a deadline set by the United Nations expired and a new timetable was awaited.
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Delaying Iraq's elections beyond  Jan. 30 would give insurgents a tactical victory and provide no  guarantee that security there would improve, Bush  administration officials said on Wednesday.
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Nigerian militants said they  planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing  Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on  their way to collect them.
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The British and Iraqi governments said  they would not bow to the demands of militants threatening to  kill a British hostage, despite tearful pleas from the captive  and his family.
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Death threats have chased away four elections officials in Mosul, stalling preparations for the vote in the northern city. Insurgents have torched election materials and a militant group believed to operate in Mosul has warned Iraqis not to participate in the election.
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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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Nigerian militants kidnap seven oil workers from a ship off the coast of the Niger Delta, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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The Nigerian military said they would maintain a tough stance on hostage-takers despite the killing of a British hostage caught in the crossfire between the kidnappers and their rescuers.