Ex-Iraq minister flees police station
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Private guards in SUVs helped Iraq's former electricity minister escape from a police station just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone where the dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen was being held on corruption charges, officials said Monday.
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A British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. Rashid Rauf fled after appearing before a judge at a court in the capital, Islamabad, said Khalid Pervez, a city police official.
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The Iraqi government has sent national guard reinforcements to the northern city of Mosul after an upsurge in violence there. The authorities in Baghdad sacked Mosul&#39;s police chief after police stations were
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An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped UK arrest because police feared an armed stand-off.
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Britain&#39;s top law-enforcement officer, a key member of Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s cabinet, resigned on Wednesday after acknowledging that his department had fast-tracked a visa for his former lover&#39;s nanny.
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Britain&#39;s top law-enforcement officer, a key member of Tony Blair&#39;s Cabinet, resigned yesterday after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover&#39;s nanny.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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The contest for Iraq's next prime minister narrowed Monday after the French-educated finance minister removed himself from consideration within the ranks of the Shiite alliance that won the most votes in the national elections, a spokesman said.
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Two Iraqi policemen were killed, 14 wounded and at least 36 were missing after an ambush while they were on their way to Baghdad from southern Iraq on Thursday, police said.
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi police took control of the  area around Najaf's Imam Ali mosque Friday after militiamen  loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr left the shrine, a  Reuters correspondent at the scene said.
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A former Iraqi cabinet minister escapes from a prison where he was serving a two-year sentence for corruption.
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Italy's former justice minister, who resigned over a corruption probe, withdraws his party from the ruling coalition.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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Britain's top law enforcement officer, a key member of Tony Blair's Cabinet, resigned Wednesday after acknowledging that his department fast-tracked a visa for his former lover's nanny.
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When a former consultant to Bahrain's government accused the island's Sunni rulers of plotting to rig a vote, he was expelled from the country &#151; but also became something of a cause celebre in the Shiite-Sunni divide.
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British troops in Iraq are withdrawing from their base in Basra palace to the city's airport.