African envoy seized in Moscow
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Moscow-based students from the West African state of Guinea Bissau take their country's ambassador hostage.
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Investigators recovered one of the Land Rovers driven by the group A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in northern Ethiopia 12 days ago have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said.Comment
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Customs official said Tuesday they seized nearly 2 pounds of cut diamonds and other jewelry from a Russian tourist at a Moscow airport.
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Zimbabwe immigration officers seized 13 members of a South African trade union delegation on Tuesday as they met with their Zimbabwean counterparts in Harare, then
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Somali gunmen kidnapped the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague as they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday, embassy staff said.
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Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday that they have identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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Detectives confirm arrest in Moscow of mafia boss wanted by both US and UK
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Somali gunmen seized the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague while they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday but freed them hours later, embassy staff said.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party is arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds abroad.
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Russia summoned the British ambassador and imposed sanctions Monday after the British Council defied a government ban to close two offices, heightening diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
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Britain&#39;s ambassador on Monday submitted  an official request to Russia for the extradition of the man  suspected of murdering Alexander Litvinenko.
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The nomination of Viktor Zubkov, a relatively obscure cabinet official, took most of Moscow by surprise.
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Russian prosecutors detain a finance ministry official on suspicion of taking a bribe from two businessmen.
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Police said Wednesday they had arrested a man suspected of plotting to kill Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian tycoon and vehement Kremlin critic who is one of the key figures in the escalating tensions between Moscow and London.
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Moscow demands the release of a Russian space agency official who was arrested in Austria on suspicion of spying.
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.