Militants to free hostages in Nigerian oil delta
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Nigerian militants said they  planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing  Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on  their way to collect them.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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Four American oil workers abducted three weeks ago in Nigeria's restive oil region were released Wednesday.
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - 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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Nigeria's oil militants say they are ready for dialogue with the new president, if certain conditions are met.
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London - An Iraqi militant group is expected to negotiate for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was seized by Islamic fundamentalists in Baghdad two weeks ago, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Militants in the oil-rich south of Nigeria free 12 foreigners, whom they had been holding hostage.
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Nigerian militants kidnap seven oil workers from a ship off the coast of the Niger Delta, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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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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A leader of the militant group behind attacks on Nigeria's oil industry was released from prison Thursday, a gesture seen as a peace offering by a new government that has vowed to make the crisis a priority.
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Hostage takers released a dozen foreign hostages Monday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, officials said.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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A militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta said Thursday that a Lebanese hostage it reportedly freed had in fact escaped, and threatened retaliation against the Italian oil firm he worked for.
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Six foreign oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Tuesday after three days in captivity, officials said.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six  hostages seized on October 26 from an Italian offshore oil  production facility, private security contractors working for  oil companies said on Tuesday.