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A PALESTINIAN presidential candidate was arrested by Israeli authorities for allegedly attacking a border guard at a roadblock near Jerusalem, his party said.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with alleged ties to drug traffickers, Haitian radio reported.
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The Republican Party&#39;s convention has not yet started, but already more than 300 people protesting against President George Bush&#39;s re-election campaign have been arrested.
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A candidate in January&#39;s Palestinian presidential election says he has been detained and beaten by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint.
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The scandal-hit former head of the Organisation of American States is arrested in his native Costa Rica.
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Canadian authorities have arrested US president George W. Bush in Ottawa. He has been charged with several offences under Canada&#39;s War Crimes Act.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 22 -- With President Pervez Musharraf facing an election in just two weeks, police on Saturday night arrested key opposition leaders who had vowed to try to block the general's plans for winning a new term.
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Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata is arrested in connection with an election asset declaration.
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Israeli police Monday briefly  arrested a Palestinian presidential candidate as he campaigned  in disputed Jerusalem, in the latest incident to mar the run-up  to elections for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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A Florida motorist was arrested Wednesday on charges of trying to run down US Rep. Katherine Harris at an intersection where the controversial former state elections chief was campaigning for re-election to Congress.
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An aircraft pilot was being held by law enforcement authorities Saturday after an incident that interrupted President Bush's outdoor campaign event.
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Indicted real estate developer and political fundraiser Tony Rezko, whose links to Sen. Barack Obama have brought his name into the national spotlight, was arrested Monday morning, an FBI spokesman said.
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A Florida trainee police officer was  arrested on Friday for making a threat to kill President Bush  before a visit by Bush to Tampa last month, prosecutors said.
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Police have arrested Haiti&#39;s Senate president and two other politicians, all of them supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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BORDEAUX, France -- Police arrested the suspected political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20 others, and seized explosives, grenades, and other weapons in a series of raids yesterday, officials said.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labour leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened countrywide strike by oil-industry workers in Africa's largest petroleum exporter, his union said.
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A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.