Desperate Niger Delta militants attacked and killed two police escorts on a Nigerian LNG (Nigeria LNG) ferry Monday afternoon in Bonny.
The militants were looking for foreign oil workers to kidnap, but when they found none, they left and disappeared in the creeks leaving the passengers on the Nigeria LNG ferry in fear and trembling.

There are conflicting reports on the case of Filipina businesswoman Josiebeth Foroozan whom the Nigerian Police reported had been abducted in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt as she got out of her car on February 7, 2007. But her abduction has been denied by a Foreign Affairs official in Manila, Philippines.

A court in Milan is due to begin hearing arguments today on whether to charge 26 U.S. citizens and five Italians in connection with the purported kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric.

Iraqi police officials say an American contractor and his two Iraqi interpreters have been kidnapped near the southern city of Basra.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says it is deeply concerned with acts of violence against journalists in Azerbaijan.

Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped as many as 30 people at a Red Crescent Society branch in central Baghdad today.

Unidentified Red Crescent officials and witnesses said gunmen arrived in pickup trucks, stormed the office, and escaped with employees, visitors, and security guards.