Gunmen seize Filipina woman, Frenchman in Nigeria
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipina woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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Gunmen seized the 3-year-old son of a prominent Nigerian chief in restive southern Nigeria, police said Thursday.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, July 5 -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school Thursday and kidnapped the  3-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria's increasingly lawless oil region.
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A Briton was one of four foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria on Friday, the Foreign Office confirms.
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Unknown attackers kidnap five foreign workers from an oil rig in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted in a nightclub raid in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released the wife of a prominent politician in the oil-rich but volatile Niger Delta two days after she was seized from her residence, police said Saturday.
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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Three Croatians have become the latest foreigners to be kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria's oil capital of Port Harcourt, industry sources said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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A Lebanese man on Wednesday became the latest foreign worker to be kidnapped in southern Nigeria, a police source said.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six foreign staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up their apartment with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi, security sources said on Sunday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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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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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities said.