S Africa's 'most-wanted' caught
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South Africa's most-wanted criminal is recaptured after escaping from top security C-Max prison near Pretoria.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29  - The arrest of Mark Thatcher in South Africa over a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is shining a spotlight on powerful members of the British elite who may have colluded to take over the oil-rich African country.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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South Africa is to resume the search for President Mbeki's son, who is assumed to have been killed by apartheid agents.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives was captured Monday in an army operation that is being hailed by government officials as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials thought they had the king of clubs. Yesterday morning, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman announced the capture of one of Iraq's most wanted men, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a confidant of Saddam Hussein and the highest-ranking regime official at large.
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German police arrested a former Rwandan minister wanted by the International Tribunal on genocide charges related to the 1994 conflict in the African state, the Federal Crime Office said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities claimed on Sunday to have captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship, but there was confusion over the report, as the Iraqi defense minister said word of his arrest was "baseless."   There have been incorrect reports of al-Douri's arrest in the past as U.S. and Iraqi forces hunt for the man who was once one of Saddam's most senior deputies...
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A DNA trail has helped investigators trace the largest recent shipment of illegal ivory to elephants in Zambia.
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VANDERBIJLPARK, South Africa  - A businessman  suspected by German prosecutors of helping Libya try to acquire  atomic weapons in 2001 appeared in court in South Africa on  Thursday on charges of trafficking nuclear material.
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For months, authorities in western New York scoured hunting campsites, stopped traffic and questioned acquaintances in a search for an escaped inmate with the skills of a seasoned outdoorsman.
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South Africa has arrested two men in an investigation into alleged trafficking of equipment used to build nuclear weapons. Authorities say Daniel Geiges and Gerhard Wisser are charged with illegally importing
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Nigeria's military discovers an arms cache belonging to a wanted militant leader in oil-rich Port Harcourt.
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In a classic case of role reversal, it was the Police who topped this year's most-wanted list.
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After a two-month international manhunt, the indicted former chief executive of leading voicemail software maker Comverse Technology Inc. was captured yesterday in southwest Africa, US officials said yesterday.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea -- Financiers in Europe and Africa were behind a plot to overthrow the government of Africa's number three oil producer, an accused ringleader testified yesterday at the opening of the continent's biggest mercenary trial in decades.
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Police hunting an on-the-run paedophile shown on a "most wanted" website failed to act promptly, the BBC finds.