Nigerian rebels say 17 troops killed in oil delta
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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Security is being beefed up in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt, after renewed violence left seven dead.
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International cease-fire monitors   blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid   workers during fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels this month.
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Suspected left-wing rebels in Colombia kill 17 peasants at a New Year's Eve party, police say.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Guerrillas killed 17 Iraqis and  wounded 13 on Sunday in an attack on buses taking them to work  at a weapons dump near the town of Tikrit north of Baghdad, the  U.S. army said.
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Guerrillas have shot dead 17 Iraqis working for the US army and killed a National Guard commander and three bodyguards in attacks north of Baghdad that take the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday.
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OPOROZA, Nigeria  - Masked rebels from Nigeria's   oil producing Niger Delta vowed revenge against the government   and oil companies during the weekend funerals in remote   mangrove forests of nine militants killed by troops.
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Guerrillas killed 17 Iraqis and wounded 13 on Sunday in an attack on buses taking them to work at a weapons dump near the town of Tikrit north of Baghdad, the US army said.
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Insurgents in Nigeriaâs southern Niger Delta will begin âa full-scale armed struggleâ to wrest control of the regionâs oil riches from the government on Friday, a rebel spokesman said today.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on Sunday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks to consider a military strike against rebel bases in Iraq.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region occupy an oil station, along with about 28 people - including soldiers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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Seventeen people were killed when a passenger bus collided with an oncoming truck on a road in southwest Nigeria, a police officer said Friday.
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Guerrillas shot dead 17 Iraqis working  for the U.S. Army and killed a National Guard commander and  three bodyguards in attacks north of Baghdad on Sunday that  took the toll from three days of violence to more than 70.
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Armed men attacked a convoy in Nigeria's oil-rich southeastern delta Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle with security forces, a government security official said.
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Up to 17 people are killed in clashes between police and demonstrators in eastern Sudan.