Belgium's 'jailbreak king' back in custody
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (BBC News) - A Belgian convict who has escaped prison on three prior occasions was recaptured in the neighbouring Netherlands Tuesday. He had escaped from Ittre prison on Sunday in a daring breakout involving several accomplices, a getaway car, a helicopter and considerable confusion on the part of officials. Nordin Benallal was recaptured in The Hague on Tuesday, after being cornered in a motorcycle showroom. His brief flirt with freedom came after his fourth escape from prison. Dutch police said that Benallal and another man had been arrested after police fired warning shots. He is expected to be returned to Belgian custody on Wenesday.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat, jailed in Lithuania for killing his lover, returns home to serve his sentence.
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Belgian police boosted security in Brussels on Friday amid fears of a possible Christmas attack after they foiled a suspected plan to free an Al-Qaeda sympathiser from prison.
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MARSEILLE, France  - A man once jailed for involvement in a drug ring that inspired the 1971 police film 'The French Connection' was sent back to prison on Thursday for helping a bid to ship cocaine in a cargo of mangoes.
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BERLIN, Dec. 21 -- Belgian police said Friday they arrested 14 people who were planning an armed jailbreak to free an al-Qaeda follower convicted of plotting to detonate a truck bomb on a NATO base in Belgium.
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The former chief executive of Comverse   Technology Inc. CMVT.O, Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, was taken   into custody in the African nation of Namibia on Wednesday, a   spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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Two men have been arrested in Belgium in connection with Australia&#39;s biggest seizure of the drug ecstasy. Australia&#39;s police commissioner said a major European syndicate was behind the shipment, and more arrests were likely.
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Belgian authorities said 14 people were arrested Friday for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel.
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Colombia&#39;s top drug kingpin is now in custody in the US A plane from Colombia to Miami touched down earlier Saturday with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela on board.
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A foreign national held under the government's emergency anti-terrorism powers since 2001 is being released.
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.
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Two friends of detained Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson who escaped jail last week have been recaptured, and police are continuing an investigation into allegations that Ponson punched a judge on Christmas Day at an Aruba beach.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands A former senior Bosnian Serb commander accused of genocide is now in the custody of the UN war crimes tribunal.
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Slobodan Milosevic sits in a jail cell at the United Nations' war-crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, but his political allies are back in power in many Serbian towns and are consolidating key positions in the ...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A former Congolese militia leader and army general accused of masterminding the massacre of 200 villagers was taken into custody yesterday at the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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One of North Africa's most wanted  Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32  European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in  Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.