11.   Armed youths stormed an offshore oil exploration rig used by Texaco Co. near southern Nigeria and took seven foreigners and a Nigerian hostage, a Texaco official said Thursday.

12.   Armed youths threatened an Agence France Presse photographer, Tony Belizaire, who wanted to take pictures of the police truck.

13.   In one incident, two armed youths stormed a Sunni Muslim shrine in the Punjab capital of Lahore as worshipers knelt for afternoon prayers.

14.   Local people said that on Monday night a group of armed youth came near Kanchpur and barricaded the road with trucks and buses.

15.   Mobs of armed youths vandalize abandoned wells and dig up old pipes to sell on the black market.

16.   Shell in recent weeks was forced to temporarily shut down several oil pumping relay stations after armed youths stormed the facilities and demanded compensation from the government.

17.   Soldiers clashed with armed youths during an operation to recover boats stolen from an oil company in the Niger Delta, witnesses and officials said Wednesday.

18.   The dispute quickly turned into a shootout, as armed youths opened fire in the crowded plaza.

19.   The Shell oil company recently was forced to temporarily shut down several oil pumping relay stations after armed youths stormed the facilities and demanded compensation from the government.

20.   Three armed youths kidnapped the father and son in the southern town of Warri, and fled the scene in a speedboat, local news reports said.