Nigeria police said to detain labor exec
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Plainclothes police detained a prominent Nigerian labor leader Saturday, bundling him into a car at an airport in an apparent effort to stop a threatened nationwide
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Police detained a Turkish Airlines employee on Tuesday after he released a woman he had been holding hostage with a gun at the company's headquarters, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Federal authorities have detained the head of President Vicente Fox's travel staff on suspicion he was feeding information to drug lords, the attorney general said Saturday.
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The whereabouts of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who was arrested yesterday morning by men of the State Security Service (SSS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, remain unknown.
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Police in Moscow arrested a suspected international crime boss who has been linked to Russia's multibillion dollar natural gas industry and has long been sought by the FBI, officials said Friday.
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The leader of the Nigerian umbrella workers&#39; union who was arrested at gunpoint by the country&#39;s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS), had been released,Owei Lakemfa, spokesman of the union, told Xinhua on Sunday.
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Indonesian police say they have arrested Abu Dujana, alleged leader of the group blamed for the 2002 Bali bombs.
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The police international investigations unit detained nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu today morning for questioning related to an ongoing probe examining suspicions he leaked national secrets and violated legal rulings since his release from prison
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Online betting firm Unibet says its boss has been detained by police over an alleged breach of French gambling laws.
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Hamas security forces detain a spokesman of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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The Nigerian domestic security agency said that the earlier arrest of the country&#39;s top trade union leader had been the result of a &quot;misunderstanding&quot; and that he had since been released.
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Security forces released the head of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization on Sunday after a brief detention, but a nationwide strike will go ahead as planned, a spokesman for the labor group said.
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Gunmen have seized three foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly southern oil region, police said Monday.
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Police in Moscow have arrested a suspected crime boss with alleged links to Russia's multibillion dollar gas business who has long been sought by the FBI and Interpol, officials said Friday.
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Colombian prosecutors on Friday ordered the arrest of a prominent political boss for alleged involvement in a kidnapping at the heart of a scandal tying Colombia's political elite to right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Russian prosecutors detain a finance ministry official on suspicion of taking a bribe from two businessmen.
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Police in Jakarta have released five executives of US mining giant Newmont Mining Corp, including an Australian, detained last month during an investigation into claims that one of the company&#39;s goldmines polluted a bay in central Indonesia.