Bangladesh detentions extended
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More than 30 top Bangladeshi politicians and businessmen arrested on corruption charges face another month in custody.
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Opposition activists in Bangladesh held more protests on Monday against a deadly grenade attack as authorities posted extra police on the streets to guard against violence.
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Officers holding 14 men arrested in anti-terror raids in London are given more time for questioning.
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Parliamentarians renewed the country&#39;s 28-day limit for detaining terrorism suspects without charge for another year Tuesday.
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Australian authorities, joined on  Thursday by British police, said they might try to extend the  detention of an Indian doctor held in connection with the plot  to detonate car bombs in London and Scotland.
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Bangladesh said it will begin trials of the country's allegedly corrupt politicians in March, as seven more prominent figures were arrested Sunday as part of the government's anti-graft drive.
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Police have been granted more time to question radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri under the Terrorism Act.
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Bangladesh&#39;s leading rights group Sunday accused the country&#39;s military-backed government of using scare tactics such as midnight arrests to end campus unrest last month.
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Burma&#39;s ruling military junta is facing renewed criticism after extending the house arrest of detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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22 DETAINED IN AFGHANISTAN. US and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Zabul province, officials said yesterday, as Afghan authorities
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Counter-terrorism police were Monday granted an extra two days to hold a doctor detained in Australia in connection with attempted car bombings in Britain, lawyers said.
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A Bangladesh court remanded two politicians 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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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her period of house arrest extended, her party says.
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Anti-terrorist police were granted a further five days yesterday to question four men arrested after a Sunday newspaper claimed they were plotting to detonate a chemical bomb in Britain or the US.
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Australian authorities have given police another two days to hold a doctor detained in connection with attempted car bombings in Britain, lawyers said Wednesday.
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Myanmar's military junta has extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by another year, a government source said on Friday.
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There is a case for extending the 28-day limit on questioning terrorist suspects, Lord Carlile says.