Top Khmer Rouge leader detained
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Pol Pot's former deputy, Nuon Chea, is detained by officials from a UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia.
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A top official in Egypt's authority of antiquities is arrested as part of probe into restoration project bribes.
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Police arrested the chief executive of China Aviation Oil Singapore yesterday morning as he returned to Singapore from China to face questions and a lawsuit related to his company&#39;s $550 million in losses from derivatives trading.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with alleged ties to drug traffickers, Haitian radio reported.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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The leader of Algeria's second largest  Islamic rebel group has been arrested, the Interior Ministry  said Monday, dealing a fresh blow to radical Muslim militants  fighting the secular government.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labour leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened countrywide strike by oil-industry workers in Africa's largest petroleum exporter, his union said.
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TULKARM, West Bank - Israeli forces detained a senior leader of Hamasâs military wing in the West Bank on Saturday during a nighttime raid on his hideout, witnesses said.
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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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The factional leader of a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been told by police she is being held under house arrest under a law which allows for such detention for up to a year, an opposition spokesman says.
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A popular Myanmar blogger who belongs to Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party has been arrested in Yangon, apparently for violating the nation's tough Internet controls, a party spokesman said Wednesday.
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The factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's top surviving henchman, was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity on Wednesday by the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal.
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Egyptian police detained the deputy  leader of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, about 10 other  prominent members and scores of Brotherhood students in dawn  raids on Thursday, Brotherhood and police sources said.
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A blogger who was apparently picked up in an Internet crackdown by the Myanmar military government has been seen in detention at a government office, an opposition party spokesman said Monday.
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BEIJING, Nov. 25 -- The chief organizer of a six-day AIDS conference scheduled to begin Sunday has been detained by men who identified themselves as Beijing security forces, according to a colleague at his organization.