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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Australian opposition leader Mark Latham was released from hospital Saturday after suffering from an inflamed pancreas in the lead up to national elections.
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The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released from detention on bail on Monday in a move that could improve relations between the country's military leader and one of its main parties.
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A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank was released after two years of detention in an Israeli jail, Palestinian witnesses said Thursday.
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As fighting flared up between US troops and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, a US journalist kidnapped since August 13 was released in good health.
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The head of a separatist movement in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-rich Niger Delta has announced that he intends to meet President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced   Pakistani nuclear scientist who confessed to leaking nuclear   secrets, was discharged from hospital on Sunday after   undergoing a surgery for prostate cancer.
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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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The front-runner in next month's presidential elections in Nigeria has been flown to Germany for medical treatment, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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Kidnappers have released the 75-year-old mother of a state legislator abducted last month in Nigeria&#39;s restive oil producing region in the south, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
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The Nigerian domestic security agency said that the earlier arrest of the country&#39;s top trade union leader had been the result of a &quot;misunderstanding&quot; and that he had since been released.
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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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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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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the premier&#39;s office said on 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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A British toddler was released by gunmen in southern Nigeria on Sunday and reunited with her parents, who said she was fine but hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
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The husband of Pakistani opposition  leader Benazir Bhutto was freed on Wednesday, a day after his  re-arrest looked to have dimmed hopes for reconciliation with  military ruler President Pervez Musharraf.