Oil worker shot dead in Nigeria
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Unknown gunmen shoot dead a Lebanese worker heading to work in Port Harcourt, Nigeria's oil capital .
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - One hostage was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when Nigerian troops launched a rescue attempt to free seven foreign oil workers abducted from an offshore oilfield, military and industry sources said.
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A foreign oil worker reportedly dies in a gun attack on a compound in Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta.
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Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria&#39;s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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The chief engineer at a Siberian subsidiary of oil company BP's Russian joint venture was found shot dead over the weekend, the RIA Novosti agency reported Monday.
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The death of a British hostage in Nigeria's oil-producing south in a shootout between kidnappers and troops raises the stakes for oil workers but is unlikely to change much for the industry, security experts said on Thursday.
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A New York Times reporter is shot dead in Baghdad, the day after two Reuters employees were killed.
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At least 12 people die in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.
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The Nigerian army kills at least eight militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, sources say.
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At least 34 people die in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, officials say.
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A kidnapped British oil worker was killed and an Italian injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers held hostage by armed men in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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A 35-year-old Iraqi journalist was shot to death Sunday on her way home from work in Mosul, the second female journalist to be killed in the northern city this month, officials said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two other foreigners in Nigeria on Thursday in a raid on the construction yard of oil services company Saipem, authorities said.
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital  Lagos, police said Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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The death of a British hostage in  Nigeria's oil-producing south in a shootout between kidnappers  and troops raises the stakes for oil workers but is unlikely to  change much for the industry, security experts said on  Thursday.