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Supporters of Abkhazia presidential candidate Sergei Bagapsh storm the president's office in Georgia's breakaway region.
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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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Zimbabwe&#39;s government has set up a state  company to seize control of private local and foreign firms  that President Robert Mugabe&#39;s administration says are engaging  in &quot;economic sabotage&quot; in a bid to end his rule.
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Gunmen stormed a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, government officials said Friday. The kidnapping happened late Thursday in the upscale Harthiya neighborhood, said Interior Ministry official Col.
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A senior Ethiopian official accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping five Britons and 13 Ethiopians and taking them to a military camp in neighbouring Eritrea.Comment
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Tension persisted in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, where the outgoing president Saturday accused the opposition candidate in last month's disputed presidential election of attempting a coup after his supporters occupied the government compound.
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Palestinian gunmen seized the governor's office in a southern city on Sunday, demanding aid for families left homeless by an Israeli military operation, witnesses said.
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Bangladeshi security forces used emergency powers to detain 13 senior politicians and former government ministers early Sunday, according to news reports and family members of those detained.
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Dozens of paramilitary police raided an underground political meeting and rounded up a group of party officials Friday, days after the king seized power and banned public gatherings in the Himalayan kingdom.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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At least three Ugandan civil servants are taken hostage in the land and water ministry in central Kampala.
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A small group of suspected gunmen stormed Uganda's Water Ministry Wednesday and took three people hostage to protest against proposals to allow President Yoweri Museveni for a third term. Police and soldiers with assault rifles cordoned off the three-story building, just 328 feet from Uganda's parliament building in the capital Kampala.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces raided an Iraqi Health Ministry complex in central Baghdad today and arrested a deputy health minister, an Interior Ministry official said. Without naming the deputy minister, a U.S. military statement said Iraqi army forces had captured a suspect implicated in the deaths of several Iraqi government officials.
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The head of an international charity's operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today.
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Gunmen seized two Egyptians from their Baghdad office, the third in a new series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
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Taliban militants seized two towns in tumultuous southern Afghanistan, forcing police and government officials to flee, officials said Monday.
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Nearly 30 people are being held in Georgia on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government, officials say.