Gunmen seize Filipino woman, Frenchman in Nigeria
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl on Thursday, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in Nigeria&#39;s troubled main oil producing zone.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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A French journalist is abducted in northern Somalia by unidentified gunmen, sources say.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, two Britons and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Gunmen disguised as  soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two other  foreigners in Nigeria on Thursday in a raid on the construction  yard of oil services company Saipem, authorities said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted from a nightclub in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 170 foreigners:
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Gunmen kidnap a Filipino oil worker and kill his police escort in Nigeria's main oil region, police say.
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A French journalist was kidnapped Sunday in northern Somalia by gunmen who apparently were demanding a $70,000 ransom, authorities and a media watchdog said.
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The three-year-old daughter of a British worker is seized by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police say.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped three  foreign workers from an offshore oilfield in Nigeria which was  preparing to restart after being closed for 20 months due to an  earlier attack, security sources said on Sunday.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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A Lebanese man on Wednesday became the latest foreign worker to be kidnapped in southern Nigeria, a police source said.
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An man took a female hostage at the  Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was shot by  police and the woman escaped unharmed, authorities said.