U.S. Fugitive Starts Over in Namibia
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The former chief executive of Comverse Technology has formed a company in Namibia that will invest in construction, tourism and agriculture.
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More than two decades ago, Frank Enwonwu got caught smuggling five ounces of heroin into the United States from his homeland in Nigeria. He admitted his mistake and readily agreed to work as an informant, believing the U.S. had promised to keep him safe.
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MOSCOW -- A prominent human-rights activist in Uzbekistan who worked part-time as a translator for New York-based Human Rights Watch has been detained after fleeing her homeland and then attempting to return, her lawyer said yesterday. Umida Niyazova, 32, an activist with Veritas, an unregistered Uzbek human rights group, was detained near Uzbekistan's border with Kyrgyzstan on Jan. 22, according ...
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The wait was excruciating for Samuel Komba Kambo's family. Then, suddenly, he emerged into the alley at dusk behind a downtown detention facility Â and into freedom.
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An alleged kidnapper featured on "America's Most Wanted" turned himself in to U.S. authorities and was deported to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Friday.
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A Lebanese-born Swede suspected of plotting to set up a terrorist camp in Oregon was extradited to the United States on Tuesday.
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The southern African nation of Namibia voted on Monday for a successor to the only leader the country has ever known, and election officials said the first of two days of voting started smoothly.
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One of the world&#39;s most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is on his way to the United States after being extradited from Colombia.
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MONROVIA, Liberia - A hundred Liberian refugees flew home from Ghana on Friday, the first of 340,000 scattered across West Africa by the countryâs civil war to be repatriated by the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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Hifikepunye Pohamba, elected the next president of Namibia according to official results on Sunday, spent most of his country&#39;s freedom struggle and all of its independence in the shadow of outgoing President Sam Nujoma.
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea in the 1960s arrived on a remote  Japanese island Tuesday to start what he said was the "last  chapter" of his life with his wife and two daughters.
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Law-enforcement officials in Namibia have arrested the former chief executive of Comverse Technology Inc., a fugitive after being charged in August with backdating millions of the company's stock options, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday.
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Former U.S. sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea four decades ago, emerged on Saturday from nearly a month in confinement to prepare for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife's rural home town.
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Wes Ballard is trying to put his life back together after serving 10 months in jail because of lies told by an informant who was handled by a federal agent now facing multiple investigations himself.
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Outgoing President Sam Nujoma opened polls in Namibia on Monday by casting the first vote to elect his successor in the vast southwest African country.
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Namibians voted Monday to choose a successor to the only leader they have ever known, and election officials said the first of two days of voting for the president and parliament started smoothly.
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A top Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, say officials.