Ex-defense minister detained in Georgia
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Georgia's hawkish former defense minister was detained on corruption charges Thursday, days after he alleged that President Mikhail Saakashvili had ordered him to kill a prominent businessman.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Thursday detained the deputy health minister, a follower of a radical Shiite cleric, a spokesman said.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- Tension between Russia and Georgia, never far from the surface, flared anew Monday after a helicopter carrying the Georgian defense minister was shot at by separatists in a breakaway enclave supported by Russia.
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Azerbaijan's state security ministry said  on Monday it had detained a group of militant Islamists who  were preparing an armed attack near the U.S. embassy in the  ex-Soviet state's capital.
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Police in Arizona arrested a former member of the U.S. Navy on charges of spying and providing material support to terrorists, authorities said on Wednesday.
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An Ethiopian immigrant suspected of  torturing and murdering more than a dozen political opponents  of the Ethiopian government in the 1970s was arrested on  Tuesday at his home near Atlanta, federal officials said.
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A former Bosnian Serb general and close aide to war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic is reportedly arrested.
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German police arrested a former Rwandan minister wanted by the International Tribunal on genocide charges related to the 1994 conflict in the African state, the Federal Crime Office said Thursday.
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Authorities in Montenegro on Sunday arrested a former Serbian police general wanted for murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a spokesman for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced.
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The police of Serbia and Montenegro detained a group of former senior government officials led by former Minister of Transport and Telecommunications Marija Vukosavljevic on corruption charges, an Interior ...
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The prime minister of ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent country.
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WASHINGTON -- A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a senior US official.
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Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban defense minister, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday, in what would be the highest-ranking leader from the Afghan insurgency to be arrested since it lost power in 2001.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 49 others, who suffered injuries in police custody, were detained in hospital for the night on Tuesday for treatment, their lawyer and a senior party official said.
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Police on Wednesday investigated the death of a billionaire Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet state which they said was "suspicious".
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia recalled its ambassador, announced the evacuation of its diplomats, and protested to the United Nations yesterday after Georgia detained five Russian officers on spying charges, bringing relations between the former Soviet neighbors to a new low.
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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 ...