Chinese taken hostage in Niger
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A Chinese uranium company executive has been taken hostage in Niger, the government said Sunday, the latest kidnapping in Africa where China is seeking raw materials to feed its booming economy.
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Insurgents in Iraq released eight  Chinese laborers they had taken hostage and threatened to kill,  as guerrillas launched more attacks on majority Shi'ites,  expected to come out on top in Jan. 30 elections.
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Islamic militants holding two Chinese engineers hostage in Pakistan threatened to kill one on Monday unless security forces ended a siege of their hideout.
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A Lebanese hostage escaped from his captors in the remote creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta and was not freed as his employer had said, the militant group that seized the man said on Thursday.
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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.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two Chinese engineers working on the Gomal Zam dam project in Tank district near the troubled South Waziristan region were kidnapped on Saturday morning.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Islamic militants holding two  Chinese engineers hostage in Pakistan threatened to kill one on  Monday unless security forces ended a siege of their hideout.
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NIAMEY, Niger  - Sent from China to hunt for oil  under the Sahara desert, Wenhui Tan looked distinctly uneasy as  the conversation turned to security fears ranging from the  spread of Islamic radicalism to cold-blooded banditry.
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China has been going in for various substantial efforts to rescue the two engineers, who were kidnapped in Pakistan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue tolda regular press conference here Tuesday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen in about seven speedboats attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three Italian workers, authorities said.
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Four more people have been abducted in the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity in Nigeria's oil-producing region hours after a 3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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Kidnappers seized a woman from the Philippines on Wednesday in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said, marking the first female captive known taken in an upsurge of violence roiling Africa's oil giant.
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Negotiations are under way for the release of two Chinese kidnapped in Pakistan and threatened with death, Pakistani and Chinese media said Monday.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct. 9. - Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped earlier today by unidentified men in Pakistanâs South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security
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In central China, hundreds of adults and children have reportedly been kidnapped and forced to work under brutal conditions.
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Eight Chinese nationals have been taken hostage in Iraq, China's state media reports.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.