7 hostages freed in Nigeria, police say
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Seven oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Monday after two days in captivity, police said.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have freed a seven-year-old boy a week after seizing him while on his way to school.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck  drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt Wednesday after holding  them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a  dozen other foreigners still in captivity.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria's  oil-producing Niger Delta have released an American engineer  and his Nigerian driver held captive since January 23,  authorities said on Sunday.
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A militant group in Iraq on Wednesday released seven foreign truck drivers they had held hostage for six weeks after dropping nearly all their demands, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French journalists captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a controversial head scarf law.
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Three European hostages abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed.
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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck  drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt held hostage in Iraq for  six weeks, offering a ray of hope Wednesday to a dozen other  foreign nationals still in captivity.
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says. The Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company said the men were on their way to Kuwait.
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A three-year-old British girl kidnapped last week in southern Nigeria has been freed, Rivers State chief of police Felix Ogbaudu and the British foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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Islamic militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt on Wednesday after holding them hostage in Iraq for six weeks, offering a ray of hope to a dozen other foreigners still in captivity.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Militants released seven foreign hostages Wednesday after their employer paid &#36;500,000 ransom, while France mustered support from Muslims at home and abroad to push for the release of two French journalists still held captive in Iraq.
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Iraqi police freed a Jordanian hostage in a raid south of Baghdad on Tuesday, detaining three men believed to have played a role in the kidnapping, a police spokesman said.
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An armed group fighting for control of oil resources in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria has released 12 foreign workers it had been holding hostage, police said Tuesday.