Nigerian separatist leader released on health grounds
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A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the provisional release of separatist leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo, who had been held since 2005 on treason charges.
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A Nigerian 3-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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An athlete from the Central African Republic is released from the hospital Saturday, one day after he was briefly knocked unconscious in an Olympic taekwondo bout.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.
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Abuja - A leading Nigerian opposition figure told AFP on Saturday that he had been released by the secret police after being detained and pressured to drop his support for an impending general strike.
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Former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar was released from a hospital in Moscow Monday evening following a mysterious illness that raised suspicions of another poisoning after a former KGB agent died in London from ingesting a radioactive substance.
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Win Tin, one of Myanmar's best-known journalists and a key opposition figure, was released from prison with several other members of the pro-democracy movement, a party source has told AFP.
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The Nigerian ruling party's presidential candidate returns home after medical tests in Germany.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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The Kenyan government on Wednesdayevening confirmed the release of its three nationals who had been kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago, saying they will return home soon.
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The release from prison of a key member of the Basque separatist group has divided the country.
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Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s cousin, who had been taken hostage on November 10, was released on Sunday, an official from Allawi&#39;s party said.
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Nigeria has paid the pensions of the former leader of the Biafran secessionist force and 63 rebels as part of efforts to heal wounds from the bloody civil war 40 year ago, officials said Tuesday.
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Hostage takers in Nigeria's restive oil region have released an American oil worker captive, police said Sunday.
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NEW YORK : UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday welcomed a Malaysian court decision releasing ex-deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim from prison, and expressed the hope that his health would recover soon.
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FORMER East Timor governor Abilio Jose Soares has been released from jail after a court overturned his conviction over the bloodshed accompanying the island&#39;s UN-backed independence referendum.
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Convicted loyalist leader Johnny Adair is released from prison in Northern Ireland and flown to Manchester.