Armed men attack convoy in Nigeria
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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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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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An armed separatist group detonated two car bombs at foreign-owned oil facilities in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt and threatened to step up both the intensity and the &quot;ruthlessness&quot; of such attacks.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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Gunmen opened fire Friday on a vehicle carrying foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly oil-producing south, killing one Lebanese man, while assailants on speedboats kidnapped two Italians in separate violence.
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An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is ambushed by Islamist fighters who claim 20 were killed, witnesses say.
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Insurgents have attacked a US convoy with a car bomb in the northern city of Mosul and three Iraqi civilians were killed in shooting after the blast.
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Militants in speed boats  attacked an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell  in a remote creek in southern Nigeria on Monday, an army  spokesman said.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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Gunmen have opened fire on Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi&#39;s convoy, wounding two associates, an aide to Chalabi says. The aide, Mithal al-Alousi, told Reuters the convoy was hit on Wednesday
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Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday.
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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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A Nigerian militant group says it has killed nine government soldiers in a gun battle in the Niger Delta.
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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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Sudden attack on convoy in Mosul underscores risks in securing Iraq before the Jan. 30 elections.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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Nigeria'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.