Nigerian clashes: '50,000 killed'
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The number of people killed in communal clashes in central Nigeria is far higher than previously thought, a new government study says.
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At least 40 people die in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, officials say.
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More than 50 insurgents and two police are reported killed in battles in north-west and southern Afghanistan.
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Between 30 and 50 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos, police said.
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At least five Nigerian soldiers are killed in an attack by armed men in boats on an oil facility in the Niger Delta.
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N'DJAMENA  - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
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Police in Nigeria say dozens of people were killed in an explosion at an oil pipeline on the outskirts of the commercial capital, Lagos.
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Oil prices raced to new record highs  above $50 on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil  facilities threatened to inflict further strain on global  supplies.
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Car bombs and mortar attacks killed 50 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military said six of its soldiers had been killed in the past two days.
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Dozens of Taleban fighters die in clashes with Pakistani forces, the military says - but militants dismiss the claim.
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LAGOS, Nigeria - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state in northern Nigeria left 29 people dead, most of them militants, police said Friday.    In the southern oil region, meanwhile, clashes between troops and tribal militia fighters forced oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell to evacuate two facilities, the company said...
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Nigerian police said on Friday dozens of people had been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - An oil pipeline exploded near Nigeria's largest city as thieves tried to siphon oil from it, with up to 50 people perishing in the flames, police said Friday.
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Police say up to 30 armed militants have been killed as a result of clashes in Nigeria&#39;s mountainous border region with Cameroon.
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Oil prices pierced the $50-a-barrel  mark again on Friday amid concern over possible conflict in  Nigeria's oil-producing delta region, where a two-day truce  between rebel militia and government forces is holding.
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A series of car bombs and mortar attacks killed 50 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military announced six soldiers had been killed in the past two days.
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Oil prices raced to new highs above $50  on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities  threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies.