Woman detained after oil platform alert
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Police arrange for a woman to be flown from a North Sea oil platform which was at the centre of a security alert.
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An oil rig in the North Sea is being  evacuated in a security alert, it is  confirmed by police.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman is arrested.
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An American woman with ties to the U.S. Embassy was detained at the La Paz airport for attempting to enter Bolivia with 500 rounds of .45-caliber ammunition, officials said Thursday. Donna Thi, 20, was taken into custody by Bolivian immigration officials Wednesday night.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.
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US security officials yesterday diverted a Washington-bound United Airlines flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Four women were briefly detained for allegedly seizing a man they were trying to force to marry a former girlfriend he impregnated, police said Thursday.    The 22-year-old man told police the 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, her mother, sister and aunt approached him Tuesday outside the food processing plant where he works and forced him into a taxi...
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Spanish police have arrested an Italian man and questioned a woman of unknown nationality in connection with the suspected kidnapping of British four-year-old Madeleine McCann, officials said Thursday.
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POLICE are stopping and searching petrol tankers coming into London amid concerns they might be used as bombs by terrorists.   A massive "ring of steel" operation involving motorcycle officers is under way to try to block any al Qaeda strike involving hijacked lorries.
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Nigerian police said a Dutch oil worker was kidnapped by armed men Thursday morning from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant, the latest in a spate of hostage-taking in the country&#039;s oil-rich southern delta.
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A 24-year-old mother, who was charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners, was remanded in custody for two weeks.
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Hundreds of people are being evacuated from a North Sea oil rig, police in Scotland confirm.
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Indonesian police arrested an American executive of a U.S.-based mining company and three local staff over the alleged contamination of a bay in eastern Indonesia, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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The factional leader in a powerful  Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being  detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told  Reuters on Saturday.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Gunmen have kidnapped the two-year-old daughter of a Shell worker in Port Harcourt, the country&#39;s oil capital, Nigerian authorities and company sources said Thursday.