Ex-interior minister arrested in Poland
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Masked special agents arrested a former interior minister-turned-government critic on Thursday, raising cries of protest from Poland's opposition parties who accuse the conservative prime minister of using law enforcement to silence opponents.
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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on Monday, underlining the interim government's drive to root out graft under an emergency rule imposed eight months ago.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party is arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds abroad.
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A 20-year-old Austrian man has been arrested in Port Sudan on charges of spying after he was found in possession of articles about an eastern Sudanese former rebel group, local media reported on Monday.
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An ex-member of Italy's disbanded Red Brigades group is arrested near Paris after two decades on the run.
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Poland's interior minister said on Saturday he has suspended an agreement between a Polish and a Belarusian police academy because of recent police violence against protesters in Belarus.
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Police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of attacking Poland&#039;s chief rabbi in late May, describing him as a 33-year-old tied to neo-Nazi groups who confessed to assaulting the Jewish leader.
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Security forces arrested four former government ministers, two mayors and a top businessman Tuesday as the military-backed emergency government stepped up an anti-corruption drive, news reports said.
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A Polish lawmaker was arrested Sunday on charges of rape and other sexual misconduct, his lawyer said.
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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 Macedonian minister is arrested in Croatia accused of ordering the murder of seven Asians.
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France extradites a German ex-minister accused of corruption who had been a fugitive for five years.
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The head of the election campaign team for Zimbabwe's main opposition party is arrested by police.
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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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The scandal-hit former head of the Organisation of American States is arrested in his native Costa Rica.
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A former envoy for Afghanistan's Taliban leadership was arrested Thursday for allegedly filing false income tax returns.
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A German man has been arrested on suspicion of arranging the supply of nuclear arms equipment to a foreign state, German federal prosecutors said Thursday.