Nigerian police raid newspaper, arrest editor
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Nigerian police raided an independent newspaper in Abuja and arrested its editor, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) said Wednesday.
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Two Egyptians were seized by gunmen in an overnight raid on their Baghdad office, the Iraqi police said today, adding to a rash of kidnappings of foreigners.
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Nigerian policeman chase people on the street to prevent them from joining the Nigerian Labor protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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Pakistani police have arrested two Islamist militants suspected of involvement in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, government officials said on Tuesday.
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Two Nigerian ex-governors accused of corruption have been arrested, say anti-graft officials.
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Assailants robbed and severely beat two reporters for Haiti's largest newspaper while the journalists were covering a cleanup effort by U.N. peacekeepers in a slum, their newspaper reported Saturday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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The three-year-old daughter of a British worker is seized by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police say.
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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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A Sudanese newspaper editor who was  kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded on Wednesday,  a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in  the capital Khartoum, an Interior Ministry source said.
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Authorities have detained a journalist from a widely respected newspaper on suspicion of extorting money from a government official, the newspaper said Thursday.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than  200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a  meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an  opposition spokesman said.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several foreigners in the main oil-producing region of southern Nigeria, military and industry sources said Friday.
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Police raid on reporter's home seen as retaliation for story.
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Nigerian police have arrested a witchdoctor employed by a politician to perform rituals at an election tribunal, local media reported on Thursday.
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Government troops arrested about 100 people in a search for militants suspected of taking oil industry workers hostage in Nigeria's petroleum-rich south, the army said Saturday.
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Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.