Nigeria gunmen 'demand ransom'
44042
Gunmen holding a three-year-old British girl hostage in the Niger Delta make a ransom demand, her mother says.
153635
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - The Nigerian kidnappers of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the girl's mother told Reuters on Friday.
494877
The Nigerian kidnappers  of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and  negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the  girl&#39;s mother told Reuters on Friday.
326221
Nigeria oil militants say they have seized four foreign workers and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
493451
YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
272185
Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish  shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded  a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV television  channel said on Saturday.
403023
Four foreign oil workers  were kidnapped by armed men from a bar in Nigeria's southern  oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses and police said on Monday.
157431
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, relatives of the toddler said on Friday.
435721
Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
241251
A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
517876
Three Croatians have become the latest foreigners to be kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria's oil capital of Port Harcourt, industry sources said.
737047
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.
484893
Elsewhere, Al Jazeera reported that a militant group holding two French hostages had demanded a ransom of $5 million.
452888
Mother of three-year-old snatched in Nigeria says the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.
401026
The Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters who have been missing since Aug. 20 today demanded a $5 million ransom as a condition for their release, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.
676080
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.
386859
LONDON - The Iraqi Islamic militant group holding two French journalists hostage has demanded a $5m (Â£2.8m) ransom for their release, to be paid within 48 hours, as well as a set of hard-to-meet demands.