American hostage freed in Nigerian oil delta
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - 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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The United States embassy in Nigeria said  on Tuesday that it had received reports that an American  citizen was among oil workers kidnapped in the southern oil  city of Port Harcourt.
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A Lebanese hostage abducted with three Italians in southern Nigeria has been freed after being held for more than 10 weeks, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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A British engineer has been kidnapped in the oil-rich Niger delta, the Foreign Office confirmed today.
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Three European hostages abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed.
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Four US nationals kidnapped this month in oil-rich southern Nigeria have been freed, official and diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - A 3-year-old Nigerian boy has been kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, police said on Thursday, four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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Four kidnapped expatriate staff members of Franco-American oil services group Schlumberger were freed late Saturday in the south of Nigeria, an industry source said.
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All seven hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oilfield were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free three-year-old British girl Margaret Hill, after a three-day hostage ordeal.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were  kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in  Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry  sources said.
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The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed, as oil militants hold talks with the government.
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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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Six foreign workers seized from a  Nigerian oil facility operated by U.S. energy giant Chevron on  May 1 were all freed on Saturday, the rebel group that abducted  them said.
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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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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an unprecedented attack on a residential compound.