Former Colombia spy chief arrested
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A former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Thursday on charges of murder and collaborating with the country's illegal far-right militias, his lawyer said.
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Investigators on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of planning to kill the former head of Italy's anti-Mafia parliamentary commission, Sicilian police said.
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South African authorities arrested the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday in connection with a failed plot to overthrow Equatorial Guinea&#39;s president, while the top suspect in the bungled coup was probed about his links to
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A former Bangladeshi minister is arrested a day after three politicians were held in an anti-corruption drive.
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Police in Colombia capture a leading suspected drug trafficker, Diego Montoya, the government says.
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A top operative of Mexico's infamous Sinaloa cartel was arrested Monday.
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A retired police colonel who went into hiding to avoid a 10-year prison sentence in a human rights case dating from the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been arrested, police reported.
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A former MSP who gave evidence on behalf of Tommy Sheridan is arrested by the police.
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Detectives arrest alleged former IRA chief of staff Thomas "Slab" Murphy on tax-related charges.
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A senior aide to the Mexican president is arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug gangs.
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A Philippine communist leader accused of commanding a rebel uprising from exile for more than 20 years was arrested by Dutch police Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in his home country, prosecutors said.
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President Karzai's office in Afghanistan says a Pakistani spy who worked with al-Qaeda has been arrested.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities have detained a  former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern  Peruvian town and are preparing to storm the police station he  took over with 200 supporters, a government source told Reuters  early on Tuesday.
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The legendary Venezuelan salsa singer Oscar D'Leon is arrested in Colombia for failing to show up at a concert.
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A Colombian paramilitary leader accused of taking eight tourists hostage last year is arrested, police say.
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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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A longtime international arms trafficker was arrested Thursday evening in Spain, where he has a mansion, on U.S. charges that he was conspiring to sell millions of dollars in arms to Colombian rebels.