Gunmen free Nigerian chief's son
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The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed, as oil militants hold talks with the government.
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U.S. troops freed the eldest son of powerful Iraqi Shi'ite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim on Friday after detaining him for several hours at a border checkpoint with Iran, Iraqi officials said.
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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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Gunmen in Nigeria's Niger Delta snatch three foreigners as the new president announces a crisis summit.
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A Nigerian 3-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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All seven hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oilfield were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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A top Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, say officials.
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Security forces released the head of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization on Sunday after a brief detention, but a nationwide strike will go ahead as planned, a spokesman for the labor group said.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have freed a seven-year-old boy a week after seizing him while on his way to school.
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Nigerian kidnappers have tonight released Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl seized in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria early Wednesday, the same day the country&#39;s most prominent militant group announced it would end a truce with the government.
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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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Kidnappers have released the 75-year-old mother of a state legislator abducted last month in Nigeria&#39;s restive oil producing region in the south, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
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Gunmen attacked a residential compound Friday in Nigeria's lawless southern oil region, kidnapping three Asian workers from inside, police and human rights activists said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Kidnappers in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta have released an American engineer and his Nigerian driver held captive since January 23, authorities said on Sunday.
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All seven foreign hostages seized by  gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on  Monday after two days in captivity, a state government  spokesman said.
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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.