American Wanted for Kidnapping Held in Brazil
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Brazilian police have detained in Rio de Janeiro a Massachusetts man who is wanted by U.S. authorities for kidnapping his own child 10 years ago, a police spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Brazil's finance minister was taken hostage for hours this week by armed assailants who invaded and robbed a country retreat he was visiting for a barbecue during carnival, officials and Brazilian media said Friday.
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Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, are requesting the extradition from the United States of 13 suspected CIA agents they say took part in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian congressional  probe accused 91 people, including a former central bank chief  and an ex-mayor of Sao Paulo, on Tuesday of involvement in  suspected laundering of money from drug trafficking, smuggling  and other crimes.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian police havedetained in Rio de Janeiro a Massachusetts man who is wanted byU.S. authorities for kidnapping his own child 10 years ago, apolice spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.
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Colombian prosecutors on Friday ordered the arrest of a prominent political boss for alleged involvement in a kidnapping at the heart of a scandal tying Colombia's political elite to right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Thai police have arrested an American woman, dubbed the "Ponytail Bandit" for her alleged role in a string of bank robberies in the United States, and will hand her over to U.S. custody on Friday, a police spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 16: Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an affluent Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Austrian authorities have arrested a man wanted by the FBI for failing to appear at his sentencing hearing in New York more than five years ago, police said Tuesday.
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The man wanted by authorities in connection with the abduction of a 13-year-old boy was taken into custody Wednesday, the Manatee County Sheriff's Department announced.
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SANTOS, Brazil  - Kidnappers freed on Friday the  mother of Santos forward Robinho, one of Brazil's most talented  young players, 40 days after seizing her at gunpoint while she  was attending a barbecue.
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Pakistan has given American officials custody of a key Al-Qaeda figure wanted for the 1998 bombing of US embassies in East Africa and the suspect has been flown out of the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two Americans and a Briton have been seized by kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior representative has told CNN.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A plane full of seized  documents flew to federal police headquarters in Brasilia on  Thursday, a day after agents raided the Brazilian offices of  U.S. risk consultancy firm Kroll Inc. and arrested executives  in a corporate espionage scandal.
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Authorities have arrested 10 Brazilians accused of luring South American women to Spain and forcing them into prostitution, a federal police spokesman said Friday. via Tuscaloosa News
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A U.S. woman jailed in Brazil since December in a sex abuse case involving minors has been placed under house arrest because of poor health, her lawyers and authorities said Thursday.