Nigeria police said to detain labor exec
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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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Federal authorities have detained the head of President Vicente Fox's travel staff on suspicion he was feeding information to drug lords, the attorney general said Saturday.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.
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Police caught a labor boss accused of starving and beating workers to keep them enslaved in brick kilns, state media reported Sunday.
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Reports from Iran say a prominent trade union leader, Mansour Osanlou, has been arrested in Tehran.
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Authorities have detained a journalist from a widely respected newspaper on suspicion of extorting money from a government official, the newspaper said Thursday.
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Indonesian police have made their first  arrest over a car bombing outside the Australian embassy last  week, detaining a man they said on Friday had helped their top  suspect prepare the attack.
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Indonesian police hunting for the perpetrators of last week&#39;s deadly bombing at the Australian embassy in Jakarta said on Thursday they had detained a man suspected of links to militants behind the attack.
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Zimbabwe's attorney general faces  corruption charges after being briefly detained over  allegations he promised to help a fugitive banker who had fled  the southern African nation avoid arrest, police said on  Thursday.
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Indonesian police have made their first arrest over a car bombing outside the Australian embassy last week, detaining a man they said on Friday had helped their top suspect to prepare for the attack.
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Nigerian security forces arrested the country's top union official at gunpoint on Saturday, his union said, ahead of a general strike called for Monday which the government has declared illegal.
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Nigerian police raided an independent newspaper in Abuja and arrested its editor, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) said Wednesday.
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Police said Saturday they have arrested one of Rio de Janeiro's most-wanted drug lords.
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Indonesian media reports said the man alleged to be the field coordinator behind the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta has been arrested.
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Indonesian police arrested an American executive of a U.S.-based mining company and three local staff over the alleged contamination of a bay in eastern Indonesia, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Police detained a Turkish Airlines employee on Tuesday after he released a woman he had been holding hostage with a gun at the company's headquarters, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Police say they have arrested one of Italy's most wanted Mafia bosses, fugitive Antonio Rosmini.