Italian trawler seized by Croatia
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The Croatian navy begins enforcing a controversial protected fishing zone in the Adriatic Sea.
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Three Italians are  kidnapped by masked gunmen in speedboats in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Somali pirates captured another foreign cargo vessel off Mogadishu port and seized its crew in the second attack since the weekend along one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Nigerian militants have kidnapped a Croatian worker on the troubled waterways of the Niger Delta, officials and the oil giant Shell said, amid rising tensions in Africa's biggest oil producing region.
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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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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities said.
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An Italian Renaissance painting stolen a year ago in Cyprus, possibly a Titian, has been recovered in Bulgaria in a police raid, media reported.
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An Italian man has been arrested in Spain in connection with the kidnapping of British 4-year-old Madeleine McCann from her resort bedroom in Portugal last month, Spain's El Pais newspaper Web site reported on Thursday.
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Police identified and eventually detained a man who robbed dozens of shops and swimming pools in the Croatian capital thanks to his good manners and kindness towards his victims, a spokesperson said on ...
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La polizia postale Ã¨ riuscita a sventare nella notte una maxi-truffa ai danni delle Poste Italiane, per 20 milioni di euro. Undici persone sono state arrestate in Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Campania e Calabria.
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BRINDISI, Italy  - Two Turkish hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday and diverted it to Italy.
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Spain's Civil Guard seizes a boat operated by a US company amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck.
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Hijackers seeking to send a message to Pope Benedict seized control of a Turkish passenger plane flying from the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul on Tuesday, and were forced by interceptor jets to land in Italy.
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Armed men seized two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in their offices here on Tuesday in the most brazen kidnapping raid here in months.
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KABUL, Sept. 24 -- Italian commandos, aided by other NATO forces and aircraft, rescued two kidnapped Italian intelligence operatives Monday in a daring ambush and gun battle that left at least nine of the captors dead in western Afghanistan.
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Croatian workers attach tow lines to a blazing Turkish ship laden with fuel oil in the Adriatic Sea.
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Australia has sent a customs ship to retrieve two activists who were seized by a Japanese whaling vessel, the country's foreign minister said.