Leader of Oaxaca protests arrested
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Mexican police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month-long protest movement that took over southern Oaxaca city, hours after he gave a news conference saying he had come to the capital to start talks with the government.
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The founder and leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison, has been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of ordering the murders of former political allies,  Dutch authorities said Tuesday.
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In the latest twist in Mexico's war  on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's  staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang,  Mexico's attorney general said on Saturday.
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Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata is arrested in connection with an election asset declaration.
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Protesters scuffled with riot police outside Congress on Monday after supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tried to set up a protest camp to demand a full recount in last month's election.
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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 government of the southern state of Oaxaca apologized for the first time Friday for a police raid on protesters last year that led to the country's worst political unrest in years.
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The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
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As many as 205 people were arrested in overnight unrest Saturday on the anniversary of the 1973 coup that led Augusto Pinochet to power.
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Around 120 protesters were arrested here Wednesday after they crashed with police in a rally against globalization and US President George W. Bush, who will arrive here for
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Augusto Pinochet was president of Chile from 1974 to 1990 Chile&#39;s former President Augusto Pinochet [pictured] has been placed under house arrest on human rights charges.
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CHENNAI, India  - Police arrested the head of the animal rights group PETA for a breach of public peace and insulting religious feelings while protesting against a bullfighting festival in south India, officials said on Friday.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - The governor of Mexico's troubled Oaxaca state claimed victory in a six-month conflict on Sunday, after riot police fired tear gas and arrested scores of protesters trying to force him from office the day before.
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Tens of thousands gather in Mexico City for the climax of protests against the presidential poll result.
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A senior Maoist leader, Malla Raji Reddy, is arrested in the southern Indian state of Kerala, police say.
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More than a dozen activists who rallied in support of Georgia outside the country's embassy and accosted counter-protesters with taunts and eggs were arrested on Saturday.
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Iraqi security forces have arrested another leader of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, a group accused of numerous attacks on U.S. forces, the General Command of the Armed Forces said Wednesday.