Nigeria kidnappers demand ransom, fighting subsides
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Seven expatriate oil workers abducted in Nigeria are in good health and their kidnappers have demanded a ransom, a diplomat said on Thursday.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were  kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in  Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry  sources said.
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Seven expatriate oil workers abducted in  Nigeria are in good health and their kidnappers have demanded a  ransom, a diplomat said on Thursday.
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Mother of three-year-old snatched in Nigeria says the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.
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Gunmen seized three eastern European workers in the latest kidnapping to hit Nigeria's southern oil region, police said Monday. The men were abducted late Sunday in the region's main city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State police spokeswoman Irejua Barasua said.
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Iraqi insurgents who claim to be holding two French journalists in Iraq demanded a $5 million (Â£2.8 million) ransom yesterday as part of a disturbing set of new conditions for their release.
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Suspected Iraqi insurgents have demanded the release of Abu Ghraib prisoners and a huge ransom in exchange for the freedom of an American and a Filipino taken hostage last week in Baghdad, Philippine officials said Tuesday.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants said they planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on their way to collect them.
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Five oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad is looking increasingly perilous after his captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry sources said.
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Twenty-four Filipino hostages shuddered as dozens of armed Nigerian militants danced around them. The hostages are being held as part of a wider rebel campaign over Nigeria's distribution of oil wealth. In an exclusive report, the hostages tell CNN's Jeff Koinange they are OK. The rebel leader says this is just the beginning of their battle.
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Nigeria's president vows tough action after a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several oil workers in southern Nigeria, some of them expatriates, police and diplomatic sources said Friday.