Yemen tribesmen kidnap 4 French tourists
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Armed tribesmen kidnapped four French tourists in southeastern Yemen on Sunday, the latest in a series of such abductions that have embarrassed the Yemeni government.
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Four Britons and three Americans among group kidnapped from pipe-laying boat off southern coast.
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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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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera said on Saturday.
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Marxist rebels have abducted up to 10 tourists celebrating Christmas at a lakeside spa in north-western Colombia, officials said. Fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) raided bungalows
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Gunmen open fire on a group of tourists in eastern Yemen, killing three people, security official says
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, two Britons 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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Mauritania on Sunday announced tightened security at tourist sites after a Christmas Eve murder of four French adventure buffs led French operators to suspend holiday packages to the African nation.
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Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Ten French tourists were kidnapped Thursday in northern Ethiopia, a businessman and a tour operator who work in the region said.
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Yemeni authorities have arrested dozens of people with suspected links to al Qaeda since Monday's suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis, security sources said on Wednesday.
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The three men suspected of killing four French tourists are linked to a North African affiliate of Al Qaeda.
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The Yemeni kidnappers of four French  tourists denied on Sunday reports that they would release the  hostages within hours.
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Gunmen shot dead four French tourists in  Mauritania in West Africa on Monday before fleeing, Al Jazeera  television reported.
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Mauritanian police have detained several suspects in the murder of four French tourists who were gunned down after refusing to hand over money when they stopped for a roadside lunch, officials said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 28 -- Eleven tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fight the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sunday morning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmen said.
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Gunmen armed with assault rifles shot dead four French tourists from the same family and seriously injured a fifth in Mauritania on Monday, local police and French officials said.