Woman detained in oil platform alert
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Police arrange for a woman to be flown from a North Sea oil platform which was at the centre of a security alert.
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A candidate in next month&#39;s Palestinian presidential election was detained briefly Friday by Israeli authorities after allegedly assaulting a border policeman at a checkpoint.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A female member of a National Guard military police unit was demoted for indecent exposure after a mud-wrestling party at the Army-run Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq, a military spokesman said Sunday.  The party occurred Oct.
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A man is arrested after a woman is pulled into a car and threatened at gunpoint in south Belfast.
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A British woman working for the London-based rights group Global Witness is being held by Angolan police in the province of Cabinda after being arrested at the weekend for spying.
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Air and ship crews were keeping an eye on an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland Monday as containment crews waited out stormy weather to take action.
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An operation is under way to evacuate an oil rig off Aberdeen in the North Sea, following a security alert.
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Police arrest around six people protesting at the South Hook LNG terminal  over a new gas pipeline's construction.
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A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff's officials said Monday after making six arrests and calling the FBI to investigate it as a possible hate crime.
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SIX Palestinian women intent on becoming suicide bombers have been detained on the West Bank by Israeli security forces in the past two weeks.
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An elderly woman in Scotland watching a film on television triggered an alert by calling coastguards to alert them to swimmers in distress after confusing drama with real life, an official said Wednesday.
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ASADABAD, Afghanistan  - A woman carrying a waistcoat filled with explosives under her all-enveloping burqa was arrested on Monday in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, in the first possible reported case of a female suicide bomber in the country.
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The factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 23-year-old black woman
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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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Nigerian police said a Dutch oil worker was kidnapped by armed men Thursday morning from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant, the latest in a spate of hostage-taking in the country&#039;s oil-rich southern delta.
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The wife of a Chinese activist retried over public order offences is detained by police, lawyers say.