Hostage oil workers released in Nigeria
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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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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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Four American oil workers abducted three weeks ago in Nigeria's restive oil region were released Wednesday.
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Nigerian security agents have stepped up efforts to secure the release of four foreign oil and gas workers who were taken prisoner this week in the restive Niger Delta.
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Seven expatriate oil workers abducted in  Nigeria are in good health and their kidnappers have demanded a  ransom, a diplomat said on Thursday.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free a three-year-old British girl held hostage since Thursday, officials say.
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Iraqi kidnappers have released 10 Turkish  hostages they had held for over a month after their Turkish  employer said it would leave Iraq, Al Jazeera television said  on Sunday.
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Two truck drivers, a Bangladeshi and a Sri Lankan, held hostage in Iraq have been released, reports from Bangladesh say.
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A group of 24 Filipino seamen held hostage in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region are freed after weeks in captivity.
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Four foreign oil workers  were kidnapped by armed men from a bar in Nigeria's southern  oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses and police said on Monday.
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China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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Hostage takers released three European captives Monday in Nigeria's restive oil region, officials said.
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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&#39;Adua.
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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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The drama of foreign oil workers kidnapped for ransom in restive southern Nigeria plays out so often that it seems the hostage takers, the oil giants and the army follow a script &#151; one that usually ends peacefully with the captives released unharmed.
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Oil prices dip on Monday, on news that a captured US oil worker in Nigeria has been freed.
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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.