Sudan arrests 12 trying to smuggle ancient mummies
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Sudanese authorities have arrested 12 people accused of smuggling ancient antiquities including two entire mummies, a state news agency said on Saturday.
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Sudan said Monday rebels had kidnapped  eight U.N. and Red Crescent workers in the country's western  Darfur area, where aid agencies are struggling to feed and  house one million villagers displaced by fighting.
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MADRID - Spanish authorities arrested six North Africans yesterday on suspicion of belonging to an international network that promotes jihad on the Internet and recruits fighters, the Interior Ministry said.
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TABA, EGYPT - Bedouin tribesmen have been arrested on suspicion they supplied explosives for car bombings at two Egyptian resorts that killed at least 34 people, officials said Saturday.
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Five aid workers have been arrested by Sudanese authorities in the troubled Darfur region but two of them have since been released, the Kirkens Noedhjelp (Norwegian Church Aid) humanitarian organization said.
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Rescue workers have pulled 12 bodies from the rubble of a 12-story building which collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the city police chief said Tuesday.
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The team examined samples from four animal mummiesâtwo hawks, a cat, and an ibisâdating from 818 BC to 343 BC The mummies are housed in the collection of the Liverpool Museum in Liverpool, England.
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Egyptian police have arrested 72 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in nationwide dawn raids as the government escalated its crackdown against the country's main opposition movement.
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Sudan has arrested two suspects in connection with the killings of a U.S. aid official and his driver in the capital Khartoum six weeks ago, state media reported on Sunday.
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A 20-year-old Austrian man has been arrested in Port Sudan on charges of spying after he was found in possession of articles about an eastern Sudanese former rebel group, local media reported on Monday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Sudanese authorities accused an opposition party Saturday of plotting to kill more than three dozen senior government officials and blow up key sites in the capital, where heavily armed troops were out in force for a second day.
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Egyptian security forces detained 80  members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps  at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most  powerful political rival.
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Sudanese authorities have arrested and  tortured at least two members of an Islamist opposition party  during a search for rebels from its western Darfur region, a  senior party official said on Sunday.
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Nine people have been arrested in Chad, accused of making an unauthorized attempt to fly more than 100 children out of the country
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The Sudanese government was accused yesterday of arresting people who have spoken to foreign visitors, ceasefire monitors and journalists about continuing atrocities in Darfur.
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SECURITY forces had arrested two more people, bringing to 12 the number of suspects held after authorities broke up an al-Qaeda cell plotting to blow up Italian and Ukrainian embassies and kill Western diplomats, a judicial official said today.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 3 -- Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.