Militant group claims Nigeria tanker blaze
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A prominent militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker on fire Friday in Nigeria's main oil hub, Port Harcourt.
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Militants have attacked the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s South Oil Company in Basra, sparking a fire that&#39;s burned warehouses and offices.
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A Nigerian militant group said in an email to media on Monday it would detonate three car bombs in strategic locations in the Niger Delta "any minute from now".
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Militants said Friday they remotely detonated an explosive device placed on a docked ship, and authorities said two people were injured in the fiery blast in restive southern Nigeria.
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At least 30 people were killed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry, police and residents said.
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Angola extradited to Nigeria a man accused of leading a militant group that attacked foreign workers and installations in Africa's largest oil nation, an official said Friday.
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One of two oil tankers that went missing laden with crude oil has been found, says the Nigerian navy.
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A rebel group claiming responsibility for gas pipeline explosions that cost Mexican businesses millions of dollars said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press Thursday that the attacks will continue until authorities release two rebels they believe are in government custody.
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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An Algerian Islamist militant group  claimed responsibility on Monday for the weekend bombing of a  bus carrying foreign oil workers near Algiers and warned of  further attacks.
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More than 30 people siphoning petrol from a pipeline near Lagos, were killed when the leaking fuel exploded into an inferno of flame, Nigerian police said on Friday.
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Nigeria is working to soon restore losses in oil production because of militant attacks on some pipelines, the country's finance minister said Tuesday.
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A Nigerian militant group says it has killed nine government soldiers in a gun battle in the Niger Delta.
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A group claiming links to rebel cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr said it was responsible for setting an oil well  in south Iraq on fire and vowed to attack the main southern oil  pipeline if U.S. forces do not leave Najaf.
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Nigerian militants accused troops of razing a village in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday and threatened reprisals but a military spokesman denied an attack on the Elem-Tombia community had occurred.
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Militant group MEND is preparing attacks on Nigerian oil facilities that could be preceded by hostage-taking, the U.S. embassy said in a security notice on Friday.
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Nigerian militants and troops engaged in  a major firefight near an oil pumping station operated by Royal  Dutch Shell in the eastern part of the Niger Delta on  Wednesday, militants said.