Arrests

Arrests

• Radical Muslim Abu Qatada sent to UK prison

  A British judge ruled Saturday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada must remain in custody following his arrest for allegedly breaching his bail ... 

• Polish police arrest man in philharmonic killings

  A Polish official says a suspect has been arrested in the killing of a young female harpist and a security guard in the building of a philharmonic in ... 

• 3 student activists arrested in Azerbaijan

  Three opposition activists in Azerbaijan were arrested before an upcoming protest, and law enforcement agencies accused them of preparing to use ... 

• Hedge fund manager charged in US captured in Italy

  A fugitive German hedge fund manager was arrested Friday at an Italian art gallery on charges filed in Los Angeles that accuse him of orchestrating ... 

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  SAfrican police go to court in man dragged case

  One of nine South African police officers charged with murdering a taxi driver who was dragged from a police vehicle testified Friday that the man ... 

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  Carlos Tevez arrested after driving offense

  Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez faces a jail sentence after being arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified. Responding to an inquiry ... 

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  UK ex-policeman, prison officer sold info to paper

  A former police officer and a prison officer have admitted selling information to a British tabloid belonging to Rupert Murdoch, pleading guilty ... 

• 3 women a day killed by a partner in South Africa

  Reeva Steenkamp, the model and law graduate shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius, was statistically just one of three women killed on Valentine's Day ... 

• 2 arrested in French anti-terrorism probe

  Two Frenchmen suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, making explosives and extremist activity online were detained Thursday, amid heightened concern ... 

• Police: Real IRA member killed outside Irish pub

  Police say a member of an Irish Republican Army splinter group involved in a bloody feud with Dublin drug dealers has been killed in an ambush outside ... 

• Police seize resorts in Italy said to be mob-owned

  Police in Italy have arrested 20 people and seized some 17 seaside resorts along the southern coast in a crackdown on organized crime clans suspected ... 

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  Victims raise legal questions about retired pope

  Attorneys who have tried unsuccessfully for years to sue the Vatican over failures to stop clergy sex abuse are looking into whether former Pope ... 

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  Indian woman on 12-year hunger strike charged

  Irom Sharmila has not eaten a meal in 12 years. The 40-year-old woman has been on a hunger strike — and force fed through a tube by authorities — to ... 

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  Londonderry cops stop IRA mortars in van, arrest 3

  Northern Ireland police stopped an Irish Republican Army splinter group from firing mortar shells at a police station in an attack that could have ... 

• Egypt: Christian arrested on molesting charge

  An official says a Coptic Christian has been arrested on charges of molesting a neighbor child, adding to sectarian tensions in Egypt's south. 

• Dutch police arrest Romanian in major art heist

  Dutch police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman in connection with a major art heist from the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam, ... 

• UK's 'naked rambler' arrested for nudity, again

  A British man who has spent most of the past decade naked — and in jail — was back behind bars Friday after defying an order to cover up. 

• 3 suspected Islamic activists detained in France

  Spain's Interior Ministry says French and Spanish police have arrested three suspected Islamic extremists in an operation in and around Paris. 

• Greek held for Athens racist attacks on Pakistanis

  A 20-year-old Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a racist gang that mounted a string of attacks on Pakistani immigrants in ... 

• Police capture Partizan fan guilty of killing

  Spanish police say they have captured a supporter of Serbian football club Partizan guilty of killing a French fan. Spanish police said on Thursday ... 

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  Court appears conflicted over DNA sampling issue

  The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ...