Nigeria&#39;s anti-graft agency arrests two ex-governors
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Nigeria&#39;s anti-corruption agency has arrested two former governors who had refused to present themselves for questioning, newspapers reported Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 3 -- The government of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has pressured its most prominent anti-corruption official to step down, weeks after the arrest of a powerful former governor from the ruling party on corruption charges.
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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on Monday, a signal of the interim government's determination to root out graft under the emergency rule imposed eight months ago.
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Another Bangladesh ex-minister was arrested while 20 other high-profile political figures were remanded in custody as part of a major anti-corruption crackdown, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq American officials say they&#39;ve captured two rebel leaders in Iraq who are tied to a high-profile Jordanian militant.
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Nigeria's top corruption investigator said Tuesday that up to six former governors will be charged by the end of the year, a sign the country's new leadership is making good on pledges to stamp out graft in one of the world's most corrupt nations.
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US officials have arrested two men whom they accuse of funneling money to the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the past 15 years, the Justice Department said on Friday.
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A former treasurer of the Japanese ruling party&#39;s largest faction was arrested yesterday, media reports said, in a widening political donations scandal that forced ex-Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to quit as the faction&#39;s head last month.
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Two Filipino oil workers captured last week in restive southern Nigeria, have been released by their captors, a local government spokesman in the area told AFP.
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Nigeria's anti-graft agency gives 15 ex-governors until the end of Friday to turn themselves in or face arrest.
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Two people were arrested Wednesday over the theft of jewellery worth more than 500,000 dollars from the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
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Prosecutors arrested a former aide of President Roh Moo-hyun Thursday on bribery and influence-peddling charges
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One was held on suspicion of leaking  state secrets to foreigners. Another was accused of corruption,  detained for five months and then released without charge.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son, Mark, was arrested in South Africa early Wednesday in connection with the alleged plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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Mauritanian police say they have arrested a former army officer accused of organizing at least two failed coup attempts against President Maaouya Ould Taya in the past 16 months.
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Grassroots campaigners have seized two oil-pumping stations in southern Nigeria , trapping 75 workers in their quarters, the Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell has revealed.
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A state commission approved ethics charges Friday against four former high-ranking officials in Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration for their alleged roles in a state hiring scandal.