Nigerian militants invite Clooney
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LAGOS, Nigeria  Â Militants in Nigeria's restive oil region on Saturday invited actor and peace activist George Clooney to visit the area and asked for U.N. intervention in their conflict.
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Nigeria's most prominent armed group Saturday urged George Clooney, the Hollywood actor named the latest UN Messenger of Peace, to work on solving the unrest in the Niger Delta.
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By John Ighodaro, Hector Igbikiowubo, Charles Ozoemena with agency reports. P-HARCOURTâ THE Armed Forces, yesterday, dared an insurgent groupâ Niger Delta Peopleâs Volunteers Forceâ led by Mujahid Dokubo
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Actor George Clooney becomes a UN peace envoy, as he returns from a trip to Sudan's Darfur region.
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The United States warned Friday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement  for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed  responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday  in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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href="http://yahoo.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,15,00.html?yhnws">George   Clooney, who was instrumental in pulling together America: A Tribute   to Heroes following the events of September 11, has signed on to   help NBC line up celebrities for its tsunami-aid telethon scheduled for   Jan.15.
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The largest militant group in Nigeria's volatile oil-rich region called for a truce this week after the country's new president promised improvements for the people.
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The main militant group in Nigeria's lawless south pledged Saturday to stop attacks on foreign oil installations for a month so the country's new president can create a plan for lasting peace in the Niger Delta region.
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Actor George Clooney urges intervention in Darfur, telling the BBC he believes ethnic cleansing is taking place.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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Militants said Friday they remotely detonated an explosive device placed on a docked ship, and authorities said two people were injured in the fiery blast in restive southern Nigeria.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in  Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the  world body's peacekeeping efforts.
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Hollywood star George Clooney said he was backing Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama here Monday as Hollywood gathered for a pre-Oscars bash on the eve of "Super Tuesday."
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Actor George Clooney is made a United Nations "messenger of peace" to promote UN work in war-torn areas.
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The United States warned yesterday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions. Light, sweet crude prices rose more than $1, to settle above $59 a barrel, in part because of worries over the warning. The warning by the United States, which receives more than 10 percent of ...