Yemen tribesmen kidnap 5 French tourists: official
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped on  Sunday five French tourists in the east of the country, a  Yemeni government official said.
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Two groups of tourists, including at least seven French nationals and five Britons, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Authorities charged six French nationals with kidnapping after a failed attempt to fly 103 children to France who a charity said were orphans from Sudan's war-battered Darfur region, officials said Tuesday.
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Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped up to   five foreign tourists in the east of the country on Sunday, a   Yemeni government official said.
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The Yemeni kidnappers of four French  tourists denied on Sunday reports that they would release the  hostages within hours.
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Several Britons are among a group of tourists missing after kidnap reports in Ethiopia, the UK government says.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  Frenchmen and given the French government 48 hours to end a ban  on Muslim headscarves, Arabic television station Al Jazeera  said Saturday.
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Yemen's security forces have arrested a   man they said was a senior al Qaeda militant who was also a   bodyguard for an opposition candidate in Wednesday's election,   President Ali Abdullah Saleh said.
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French counterterrorism officials detained five suspected Islamic militants thought to be linked to a Moroccan man with alleged ties to al-Qaida, judicial and police officials said.
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Yemeni authorities have arrested dozens of people with suspected links to al Qaeda since Monday's suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis, security sources said on Wednesday.
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Yemen's interior minister says authorities have arrested four al-Qaida members who were planning to carry out attacks in San'a.
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Five Britons including diplomats and embassy staff were among 15 Western tourists being held by kidnappers in a remote corner of Ethiopia dubbed the "land of death" because of its extreme climate.Comment
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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria at dawn, police and industry officials said Wednesday.
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Five oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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Five out of 13 Ethiopians believed to have been kidnapped with five Britons in the remote Afar region have been found by the security forces, the state news agency said.
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The Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters who have been missing since Aug. 20 today demanded a $5 million ransom as a condition for their release, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.
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Yemen stepped up security precautions around government buildings and foreign interests on Tuesday a day after a suspected al Qaeda suicide bomber killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis at a tourist site.