Bolivian troops seize key smelter
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Bolivia seizes control of the country's largest tin smelter complex, as the government nationalises the facility.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- The leader of a paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late last night as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said.
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Police seized a van packed with explosives in southeastern France, thwarting a Basque separatist attack that was clearly intended to cause casualties, Spain's interior minister said Wednesday.
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US and Iraqi government forces have captured scores of suspected insurgents and seized an enormous stockpile of weapons and explosives during anti-insurgent operations in Iraq.
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Chinese police have detained a manager  of a mine, wanted in connection with a flood that trapped 57  miners, who had fled to Inner Mongolia with his mistress, state  media reported on Friday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list was captured Monday in an army operation that government officials hailed as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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Iraqi National guards arrest Iraqis during a joint raid with British forces in the town of Gurna, 40 km north of Basra, southern Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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Spanish Civil Guards on Thursday heightened a battle over a $500 million treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Tampa, Fla.,-based company.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, a rocket hit the busy Baghdad thoroughfare Palestine Street...
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Tuareg-led rebels in northern Niger kidnap a Chinese national in 'warning' to mining companies
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials announced Thursday the capture of a key aide to Jordanian terrorist suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said soldiers had discovered what they called a chemical bomb factory in Fallujah.
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The police and army go on alert in Bolivia, as some of its richest regions prepare to declare autonomy.
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Clashes erupt as Bolivian security forces take control of the country's busiest airport in a row over landing fees.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces raided an Iraqi Health Ministry complex in central Baghdad today and arrested a deputy health minister, an Interior Ministry official said. Without naming the deputy minister, a U.S. military statement said Iraqi army forces had captured a suspect implicated in the deaths of several Iraqi government officials.
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Peruvian police said on Monday they seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kg) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States.
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Demonstrators seized control of a natural gas facility in Bolivia on Friday in protest over the government's nationalization of the energy industry, which they say has not gone far enough, local radio reported.
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More than 20,000 miners from across Bolivia marched into the capital Tuesday, tossing sticks of dynamite that sent booming explosions echoing through the streets in a protest of President Evo Morales' plans for a steep hike in mining taxes.