Bangladesh police detain former PM Hasina
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was arrested at her home in the capital on Monday and sent to jail to face extortion charges, her party and court officials said.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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A police official also said that security agencies investigating an attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have held at least 15 people for questioning.
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport on Monday and taken into custody about three hours after arriving home from seven years in exile.
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Pakistani police on Tuesday arrested the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the killing of a former judge and his son in 1996, taking him back into custody just a month after he'd been freed on bail, lawyers and officials said.
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Bangladesh arrested former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed on extortion charges Monday, setting off an angry showdown with her supporters that saw police open fire with rubber bullets and tear gas.
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Indonesian police have arrested the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the south-east Asian terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and a series of other attacks in recent years, a spokesman said today.
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New charges are announced against former Bangladesh PMs Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.
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At least eight top politicians are detained in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, officials and media reports say.
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A Bangladesh court remanded a senior politician, a former junior minister and a top businessman in police custody for interrogation, officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a long list of prominent officials to be held in a corruption crackdown.
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Dissidents in Bangladesh's largest political party have ousted former prime minister Khaleda Zia as leader while she is under arrest on corruption charges, officials said Tuesday.
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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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Islamabad - Pakistani police detained the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday, hours after a court ordered his re-arrest for failing to appear at a bail hearing in a murder case.
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Three leading politicians in Bangladesh's two main parties are arrested in a continuing anti-corruption drive.
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The former Pakistani Prime Minister was arrested and deported Monday at Islamabad's airport on corruption charges.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of internationalrelations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who oncesought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrestedafter a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
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Former President Rafael Angel Calderon was detained Thursday in connection with a corruption investigation, local media reported.