'Bribes' free top Taleban leader
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from prison for a $15,000 bribe.
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A top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is arrested along with scores of the group's supporters.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has freed a top dissident - second only to Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police say.
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Reports from Iran say a prominent trade union leader, Mansour Osanlou, has been arrested in Tehran.
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Pakistan has arrested the leader of a Taliban splinter group suspected of masterminding the recent kidnapping of three United Nations workers in neighboring Afghanistan, an official has told CNN.
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A suspected Taleban leader killed in Afghanistan was freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay, the US admits.
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Security forces arrested former  Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on  Monday, a signal of the interim government&#39;s determination to  root out graft under the emergency rule imposed eight months  ago.
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A political prisoner who was jailed for 15 years on charges of terrorism in Moldova's separatist state of Trans-Dniester was released Saturday after serving his term.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's top leaders hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested the Taliban's former defence minister, the most senior figure from the Islamist regime to be captured since it fell in 2001, security officials said Friday.
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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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Afghanistan's former king honored Thursday U.N. workers held hostage for nearly a month after helping run the country's first free elections, while the United Nations urged a full investigation of the kidnapping.
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The US military has confirmed that a suspected Taleban commander killed in Afghanistan at the weekend had been held at Guantanamo Bay but was freed.
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South Korea's presidential office says the Taleban have agreed to free 19 hostages held in Afghanistan.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's three top leaders just hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan earlier this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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Indonesian police say they have captured the head of the Islamist group blamed for the 2002 Bali bombs.