Senate chairman arrested in Haiti
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Police arrest the president of Haiti's senate and two other supporters of former president Bertrand Aristide.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Enraged supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide armed themselves with machetes, guns, rocks, and bottles and roamed a downtown slum, threatening to behead foreigners after UN peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested dozens yesterday.
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A Haitian senator was kidnapped by gunmen while driving near a dangerous slum but escaped after several hours in captivity, a U.N. official said Saturday.
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Officers arrested a homeless man Monday in connection with a weekend burglary at the office of Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd, police said.
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Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been told she will be held under house arrest at least until September, a spokesman for her political party said Monday.
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A retired Chinese doctor who helped expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her from traveling to Washington to be honored by a charity backed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a friend said Monday.
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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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Vietnamese dissidents say a Catholic priest prominent in the democracy movement has been arrested.
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The head of Congo's atomic energy commission has been arrested on suspicion of illegally selling uranium found in the Central African mineral giant, officials said Wednesday.
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Democratic control of the next US Senate was suddenly cast into doubt after a lawmaker was rushed to the hospital after suffering a possible stroke, his staff said.
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Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana is expected to be indicted on corruption charges this afternoon.
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was detained Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, according to a spokeswoman for the country's U.N. mission.
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A man with a knife was arrested inside a campaign headquarters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in Decorah in northeast Iowa, police said Wednesday.
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Haitian Police arrest a group of people during an operation in Bel Air by UN Brazilian peacekeepers and Haitian police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 6,2004.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE - UN peacekeepers and Haitian police have arrested dozens of enraged supporters of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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A Danish member of parliament was arrested and charged on Tuesday with sexually abusing a young boy, police said after parliament lifted his immunity in a historic first.
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Louisiana congressman William Jefferson on Tuesday requested temporary leave as a member of the House Small Business Committee, a day after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on a raft of corruption charges.