Heavy troop presence in Nigerian oil city
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Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, residents said, following reports up to 500 people killed in clashes in the past month.
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Heavily armed soldiers take up key positions in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, after gunshots are heard.
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Lagos - An oil pipeline exploded near Nigeria&#39;s largest city as thieves tried to siphon oil from it, with up to 50 people perishing in the flames, police said on Friday.
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Black Watch troops come under one of the most sustained attacks since arriving in central Iraq.
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The US military presence in Iraq will grow by nearly 12,000 troops to 150,000 by next month, the largest level since the invasion last year, to provide security for the Iraqi elections
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&quot;We go to work with a military escort. We come back here with a military escort. It's like being in an open prison,&quot; said a British worker in this southern Nigerian oil town.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria : Nigeria&#39;s army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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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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Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell  has evacuated non-essential staff from two oilfields in Nigeria  where troops are fighting a major offensive against rebel  militia, a spokesman said.
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AFP/Getty Images - The most prominent armed group in southern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for a dynamite attack Monday night on the convoy of a port authority official in Nigeria's oil hub city Port Harcourt.
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A brigade of new American troops arrive in Baghdad to make the total US troop stationed in the Iraqi capital to 40,000 by Monday, as the US and Iraqi forces have warned of a major assault on rebel held areas in Iraq, ahead of the countryâs elections in
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Multinational oil companies being targeted by militants in Nigeria will weather attacks on their infrastructure and personnel given the huge potential for profit there, analysts and the oil groups say.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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Extra UK troops arrive in Iraq's second city Basra  ahead of the elections.
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Up to 500 people could have been killed in violence in a southern Nigerian oil town, say Amnesty International.