Two employees from oil company Shell have been kidnapped in Nigeria.
The staff members were returning from a business trip, when their vehicle was attacked on a road in Rivers state in the Delta region.
Police escorting the workers were killed in the attack.
Efforts are underway to locate them.
Thailand frees 18 Cambodian soldiers as ceasefire holds
Thailand has released 18 Cambodian soldiers on Wednesday that it had detained since July under the renewed ceasefire the two countries agreed on the weekend to end a border conflict, Cambodian and Thai authorities said.
Mali and Burkina Faso announce reciprocal travel ban on US
Mali and Burkina Faso have said they are imposing a travel ban on US citizens in response to an equivalent measure announced by the Trump administration earlier this month.
Four injured in Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine says
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s Odesa region, damaging residential buildings and infrastructure and injuring four people, including three children, regional authorities said on Wednesday.
Channel tunnel rail passengers face second day of disruption after power failure
Train companies said services between Britain and continental Europe would resume on Wednesday but warned of further disruption after technical failures suspended travel the day before and left some passengers stuck on trains all night.
Head-on train crash near Peru's Machu Picchu kills driver, injures dozens
A train driver has been killed and 40 more people injured on Tuesday after two trains collided head-on on the railway leading to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the Andean nation's top tourist site that draws well over 1 million visitors each year.
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