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| Jun. 9 |
 Bangladesh |
18,000 held 'political crackdown' Police have detained or arrested more than 18,000 people in the last 11 days in a crackdown on crime aimed at improving security ahead of el...
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| May.20 |
France |
ETA 'political leader' arrested
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| Apr.22 |
Colombia |
Colombia orders Uribe ally arrest
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| Apr.15 |
Spain |
Exiled Equatorial Guinea leader arrested
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| Mar.19 |
Congo |
Ranger held over gorilla killings
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| Mar.12 |
 Paris |
Second SocGen employee detained A second Societe Generale employee has been arrested as part of the probe into a rogue trader scandal at the bank
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| Mar.6 |
 Thailand |
Thailand holds Russian 'top arms dealer' 
| Viktor Bout, dubbed the 'merchant of death', suspected of being one of the world's biggest illegal arms dealers has been arrested | | |
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| Mar.1 |
East Timor |
Man who shot president in custody
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| Feb.24 |
Micronesia |
Japanese arrested in wife's 1981 death
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| Feb.12 |
 Denmark |
Cartoons 'plotters' held Danish police have arrested 3 people suspected of planning to attack a cartoonist who drew caricatures satirising Muhammad
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| Feb.7 |
Pakistan |
Bhutto assassination suspects arrested
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Gangs face off in tribal violence
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| Dec.9 |
Northern England |
Wife of 'Canoe Man' arrested |
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UK teacher jailed over teddy row
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| Nov.20 |
Germany |
Meredith murder: New suspect held |
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| Nov.5 |
 Southern Italy |
Senior Mafia boss arrested The police have arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the reputed new boss of the Sicilian Mafia, who had been at large for 20 years
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| Oct.4 |
Basque |
Police seize Basque leaders
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| Oct.1 |
Maldives |
7 arrested after bomb blast |
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| Sep.16 |
 Nevada |
OJ Simpson arrested over break-in | Ex-American football star has been arrested by Las Vegas police investigating an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel room | | |
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| Sep.15 |
Moscow |
Reporter killing: Chechen 'held' |
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| Sep.1 |
France |
'Leading ETA bomb maker' arrested |
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| Aug.30 |
Southern Italy |
Mafia suspects arrested
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| Aug.28 |
 Baghdad |
US seizes Iranian group in Iraq 7 Iranians working for the Iranian Electricity Ministry have been arrested by US forces
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| Aug.27 |
Moscow |
10 held over Politkovskaya murder |
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HIV medics released to Bulgaria
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| Jul.4 |
 Pakistan |
Mosque leader's burqa plan fails Abdul Aziz, the head of a radical mosque at the center of a stand-off with security forces, was arrested while trying to escape clad in a woman's...
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| Jun.17 |
Serbia |
War crimes fugitive arrested |
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| Jun.8 |
 Chile |
Fujimori under house arrest A Chilean prosecutor recommended former Peruvian President be extradited to Peru to face charges of human rights abuses and corruption
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CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed'
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| Jun.4 |
California |
10 charged with alleged Laos plot |
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| May.31 |
Bosnia |
Aide to wanted Mladic is arrested
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| Apr.26 |
London |
Hugh Grant arrested over 'attack' |
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| Apr.13 |
Rio de Janeiro |
Gaming sting nets judge, prosecutor |
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| Mar.22 |
 Northern England |
Three held over 7 July bombings 2 men, aged 23 and 30, were arrested at Manchester Airport. A 3rd man was arrested at a house in Leeds
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| Mar.18 |
Rio de Janeiro |
Wanted Italian seized |
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| Feb.8 |
Baghdad |
Top Iraqi official held in raid US and Iraqi forces have arrested Hakim al-Zamili, the deputy health minister during a raid at his offices
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| Jan.31 |
Boston |
Arrest over security scare |
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| Jan.30 |
London |
Blair's fundraiser arrested again |
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| Jan.20 |
 Turkey |
Hrant Dink murder suspect caught Prime Minister Erdogan: The main suspect in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist has been arrested
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| Jan.3 |
Baghdad |
Guard detained over Hussein video A security guard present at the execution was being questioned in connection with a cell phone video showing the hanging
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| Dec.24 |
Southern Italy |
Dead spy's Italy contact arrested Police have arrested Mario Scaramella who met Russian former spy Litvinenko the day he fell ill from poisoning
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HIV medics condemned to death
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| Dec.18 |
 England |
Man held over 5 prostitute deaths Supermarket worker Tom Stephens was arrested at his home in Trimley, near Felixstowe, Suffolk
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Saddam trial 'flawed and unsound'
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| Aug.18 |
West Bank |
Israelis detain Hamas deputy PM
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| Aug.9 |
Western Iraq |
4 arrested in Jill Carroll kidnapping case
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| May.19 |
 Gaza |
Hamas official seized with $800k Palestinian border police briefly detained Sami Abu Zuhri accused of smuggling more than into the Strip
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| Apr.11 |
Southern Italy |
'Top Mafia boss' caught |
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| Apr.1 |
Bahrain |
Death boat's captain detained |
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Convert 'faces execution'
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| Mar.19 |
Somalia |
US captures 13 'pirates'
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Nour jailed for 5 years
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| Dec.8 |
 Spain |
Croatian fugitive general seized| Ante Gotovina, the third most-wanted suspect from the 1990s Balkan wars, was arrested in the Canary Islands | |
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Pinochet charged over dissidents
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| Sep.27 |
West Bank |
Israel arrests 91 suspected militants |
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| Aug.30 |
Beirut |
Ex-security chiefs held |
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| Aug.16 |
Gaza |
Israeli forces arrest 50 at settlement |
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| Jul.20 |
Pakistan |
Police raids detain 200 |
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| Jul.16 |
West Bank |
Israel arrests 30 Palestinians |
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| Jun.2 |
 Serbia |
Serbia holds video 'executioners'| The prime minister has announced the arrest of soldiers shown in a video carrying out executions in 1995 | |
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Khodorkovsky jailed for 9 years
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| May.30 |
Sudan |
MSF arrested man over report |
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| Mar.28 |
Darfur |
Sudan makes Darfur crimes arrests |
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| Oct.2 |
Haiti |
Police hold Senate leader |
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| Sep.5 |
Sunni Triangle |
Report: Fugitive al-Duri captured |
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| Jun.8 |
Italy |
Key Madrid plotter held |
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| May.2 |
Serbia |
Serbia assassin suspect surrenders |
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| Apr.29 |
Indonesia |
Fresh arrest for cleric Ba'asyir |
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| Mar.28 |
Congo |
Arrests after 'coup bid' |
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| Feb.26 |
Switzerland |
Grieving father held for killing |
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| Jan.28 |
Bosnia |
Karadzic bodyguard seized |
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| Jan.24 |
Pakistan |
2 senior Taliban officials arrested |
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| Jan.3 |
Ecuador |
Top Colombia rebel leader seized |
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| Dec.31 |
Italy |
Police arrest Parmalat officials |
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| Dec.22 |
Jerusalem |
Suspects seized over Maher attack |
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| Nov.21 |
Istanbul |
Arrests made in blasts |
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| Sep.24 |
Sweden |
New suspect in Lindh murder hunt |
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| Sep.16 |
Sweden |
Suspect arrested in Lindh killing
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| Aug.30 |
Iraq |
4 arrested over Najaf bombing
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| Aug.22 |
England |
Argentine Jewish bomb: Envoy held |
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| Aug.19 |
Kurdistan |
Saddam deputy captured
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| Aug.12 |
New Jersey |
3 arrested in missile-smuggling case
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| Aug.2 |
West Bank |
Palestinians arrest Arafat HQ militants
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| Jul.25 |
Argentina |
Former Argentine junta members held |
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| Jun.23 |
West Bank |
100 Hamas members arrested in Hebron
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| May.31 |
North Carolina |
FBI: Olympic bombing suspect arrested
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| Apr.24 |
Iraq |
Deputy PM Tariq Aziz in custody| Aziz was often the public face of the regime on the international stage. He was No. 43 on the list of the most-wanted Iraqis | |
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| Apr.23 |
Iraq |
3 more Iraqi officials seized |
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| Apr.15 |
Iraq |
U.S. captures Abu Abbas A convicted Palestinian terrorist masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro
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| Mar.25 |
Serbia |
Djindjic sniper suspect arrested |
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| Mar.7 |
Afghanistan |
Report: bin Laden's sons arrested |
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| Mar.1 |
Pakistan |
Top al Qaeda operative caught Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is believed to be the key planner of the 9/11 and several al Qaeda attacks in the last 10 years
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| Feb.20 |
Florida |
FBI charges professor with terrorism |
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| Dec.14 |
Jordan |
2 held for diplomat killing
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| Oct.29 |
Moscow |
Mass arrests follow siege |
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| Oct.24 |
Washington |
Two arrested in sniper shootings Members of the sniper task force arrested an ex-soldier John Allen Muhammad, 42, and his stepson
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| Aug.21 |
Jerusalem |
Suspects in university bombing arrested |
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| Jul.19 |
California |
Police Make Arrest in Killing of 5-year-old |
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| Feb.15 |
Afghanistan |
3 arrested over minister killing |
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| Feb.8 |
Afghanistan |
Taleban foreign minister surrenders
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| Jan.29 |
England |
6 arrested under terror law |
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| Jan.15 |
Jerusalem |
Israel sceptical about arrest
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| Dec.30 |
Pakistan |
Top militant arrested |
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| Dec.11 |
Washington |
First 11 September charges
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| Dec.5 |
Gaza |
Militants clash over Yassin arrest |
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| Nov.28 |
Indonesia |
Suharto's fugitive son arrested |
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| Aug.22 |
Bangladesh |
Bangladesh arrests 58,000 |
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Court rules Pinochet unfit for trial
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| Jun.17 |
India |
3 arested in U.S. embassy bomb plot |
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| Jun.7 |
Argentina |
Ex-Pres. Menem held in arms probe |
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| Apr.25 |
Manila |
Estrada arrested
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| Apr.15 |
Bosnia |
Genocide suspect held |
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| Apr.1 |
West Bank |
6 Arafat's elite soldiers arrested
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| Mar.31 |
Serbia |
Milosevic arrested
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| Mar.9 |
Basque |
2 held over Basque blast |
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| Feb.24 |
Serbia |
Milosevic's henchman arrested |
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| Feb.21 |
Croatia |
War crimes suspect detained |
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| Dec.29 |
Peru |
Fujimori's army chief arrested |
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| May.29 |
 Indonesia |
Suharto under house arrest Former President is accused of embezzling millions of dollars and abuse of power
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Pinochet's immunity ends
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