Abducted mother of Nigerian lawmaker released: police
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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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Militants in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta seize the two-year-old son of a local chief, police say.
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The distraught mother of a three-year-old British girl taken hostage in southern Nigeria said Saturday her captors had asked for ransom as security agents intensified efforts to secure her release.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s office confirmed Monday that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.
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CAIRO, Egypt - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s (search) cousin has been released by his kidnappers, the Iraqi leader&#39;s office said Saturday.
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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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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 Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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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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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 Lebanese national was kidnapped in southern Nigeria, a police source said Wednesday.
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SANTOS, Brazil -- Kidnappers have freed the mother of Santos forward Robinho, one of Brazil&#39;s most talented players, 40 days after seizing her at gunpoint.
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Police released the wife of an opposition figure after holding her for several hours Wednesday and warning that her husband should drop his plans to run for president, a rights activist said Thursday.
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The Kenyan government on Wednesdayevening confirmed the release of its three nationals who had been kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago, saying they will return home soon.
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipina 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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Kidnappers have released Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s cousin after taking him hostage for 12days, the Arabic-language al-Arabiya TV channel reported Sunday.
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Two Filipino oil workers captured last week in restive southern Nigeria, have been released by their captors, a local government spokesman in the area told AFP.