Al-Jazeera journalist arrested in Egypt
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An Al-Jazeera journalist already appealing one jail sentence was arrested again Monday while filming a documentary, allegedly without a proper license, her lawyer and police said.
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An Iraqi armed group has kidnapped an Italian journalist missing since last week and has threatened to kill him unless Italy withdraws its troops from Iraq in 48 hours, al-Jazeera reported.
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An Egyptian released by kidnappers in Iraq said he was temporarily held with two Frenchmen, but did not say if they were two journalists abducted in August, and whose whereabouts are still unknown.
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Police arrested the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood's chief strategist and at least 140 others Thursday in a crackdown after a protest by uniformed students raised fears the Islamist political group is creating a military wing.
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A journalist with Russia s state-owned Channel One television, Pavel Sheremet, was detained by police in the Belarus capital Minsk on Sunday evening, Russia s news agency Interfax reports.
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Saudi authorities have detained a popular blogger for violating the kingdom's laws, a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday. It was the first known arrest of a Saudi online critic.
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The Moscow bureau chief of satellite television Al-Arabiya was arrested as he prepared to fly back to the Russian capital after covering the school hostage bloodbath in North Ossetia, the Dubai-based station said.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested two "important" al Qaeda operatives, including an Egyptian, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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An Israeli Arab has been arrested on charges of spying for Iran, a police spokesman said Tuesday, underscoring growing Israeli-Iranian tensions.
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GAZA, SEPTEMBER 27: Armed Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli Arab producer for CNN TV network from a car in Gaza City on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a BBC reporter from his car in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said.
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Mauritanian police say they have arrested a former army officer accused of organizing at least two failed coup attempts against President Maaouya Ould Taya in the past 16 months.
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Egypt arrests several foreigners including European, US and Arab nationals linked to terror groups, officials say.
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An Egyptian newspaper editor is charged with spreading false information about President Hosni Mubarak.
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ISRAELI troops arrested a commander of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus today, Palestinian security sources said.
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Egyptian police have arrested nine French  people, an American and two Belgians on suspicion of forming a  secret Islamist organization linked to "terrorist" groups  abroad, the government said on Monday.
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Hamas said Monday it had made arrests in Gaza over the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has been held by extremists in the territory for 112 days.