3 European captives released in Nigeria
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Hostage takers released three European captives Monday in Nigeria's restive oil region, officials said.
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A three-year-old British girl kidnapped last week in southern Nigeria has been freed, Rivers State chief of police Felix Ogbaudu and the British foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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The release of three United Nations workers who had been held hostage for more than three weeks took place early Tuesday in what appeared to be an orchestrated handover.
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Three foreign UN workers taken hostage last month in Afghanistan are released, officials say.
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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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Two foreign aid workers who were kidnapped last week in Somalia were released Tuesday, a diplomat said.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but
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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 Niger Delta, the boy's father said on Friday.
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A three year-old British girl kidnapped last week in southern Nigeria has been freed, Rivers State chief of police Felix Ogbaudu and the British foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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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.
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Four American hostages taken from Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region were released on Wednesday after three weeks in captivity, authorities said.
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A French-American reporter is released by kidnappers in Iraq but three European journalists remain missing.
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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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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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All seven foreign hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages 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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Three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill was back with her relieved parents Monday after being freed by kidnappers in southern Nigeria, but three more foreigners were seized in the oil producing region.