Nigerian kidnappers release 6 oil hostages
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six hostages seized on October 26 from an Italian offshore oil production facility, private security contractors working for oil companies said on Tuesday.
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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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A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in Ethiopia 12 days ago are released, it is confirmed.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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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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Six foreign oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Tuesday after three days in captivity, officials said.
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Islamic militant kidnappers released seven truck drivers held hostage in Iraq for six weeks, an AFP correspondent witnessed in the rebel-dominated western city of Fallujah.
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Two gunmen who hijacked a bus and threatened to blow it up released the six remaining hostages and surrendered shortly after midnight Wednesday, report agencies.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S...
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Six people held hostage aboard a bus in Athens for 19 hours have been released and their captors have surrendered.
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Three foreigners and four Nigerians were kidnapped Sunday from an oil rig run by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six foreign staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up their apartment with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi, security sources said on Sunday.
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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All seven foreign hostages seized by  gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on  Monday after two days in captivity, a state government  spokesman said.