Arrests

Arrests

• Iran news agency: More arrests of journalists

  An Iranian news agency reports that local journalists linked to British news media have been arrested but gave few details. Iran regularly cracks down ... 

• Man arrested over alleged racial abuse of Demba Ba

  A man has been arrested on suspicion of racially abusing Chelsea striker Demba Ba on Facebook. Police in the northeast of England said Wednesday that ... 

• Report: Ivory Coast gov't lacks impartiality

  Ivory Coast's government has displayed a "lack of impartiality" by not pursuing specific perpetrators of 2010-11 postelection violence including those ... 

• Russia arrests man with priest ID and cocaine

  Russia's anti-narcotics agency says a Colombian claiming to be a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested at a Moscow airport carrying 780 grams (1. 

• Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult

  Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration ... 

• Arrests along US borders up in last year

  A year after Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal border crossers plunged to the lowest levels in nearly 40 years agents have seen a slight increase ... 

• Iran arrests 14 reporters over 'foreign contacts'

  Iran has arrested 14 journalists for alleged cooperation with foreign-based Persian-language media organizations, several chief editors of Iranian ... 

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  Arrests made in Brazil fire, funerals begin

  Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people. 

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  Somali government arrests 3 over scholarship fraud

  Three officials have been arrested for mismanaging a scholarship scheme that sends Somali students to Turkey, Somalia's education minister said ... 

• Italian tourist arrested for refusing to pay bill

  An Italian tourist who was accused of refusing to pay a tab at an upscale steakhouse said Friday that he had forgotten his wallet and didn't have ... 

• UK police: New arrest in Syria kidnap inquiry

  British police say they've made another arrest as part of their investigation into the kidnapping of two freelance photographers in Syria. Briton John ... 

• Police arrest 4 linked to Muslim 'vigilante' video

  British police say they've arrested four men linked to a video of self-proclaimed Muslim vigilantes threatening revelers on the streets of east London 

• Austrian police: Extreme-right network busted

  Police say they have broken up a network of extreme rightists implicated in dozens of crimes and are holding 10 suspects for questioning. They say the ... 

• Gaza's Hamas rulers arrest 6 local reporters

  A Palestinian rights group says Gaza's Hamas rulers have detained six journalists suspected of affiliation to a rival group, Fatah. The Palestinian ... 

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  Dutch art heist detectives heading to Romania

  Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in ... 

• Spanish police arrest ex-cyclist in doping network

  Spanish police arrested a former cyclist Wednesday for allegedly trafficking in banned performance-enhancing substances in a case linked to a major ... 

• Groups call for Somali gov't to release journalist

  Rights groups on Wednesday called for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a woman who said she was raped ... 

• Italy steel exec arrested in UK over ILVA plant

  An Italian steel executive turned himself into British authorities on Tuesday after being placed under investigation in Italy over environmental and ... 

• Naked gunman on Austrian streets, suspect nabbed

  Austrian police say they have arrested a suspect after witnesses reported a naked man armed with a handgun strolling through a town's snow-covered ... 

• Ble Goude returned to Ivory Coast from Ghana

  The state-run TV network says Charles Ble Goude, the former leader of an ultranationalist youth movement in Ivory Coast, has been handed over to ... 

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  As Tibet burns, China makes arrests, seizes TVs

  Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder — ... 

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  Greece: Race motive suspected in migrant murder

  Police arrested two Greek men accused of stabbing a Pakistani immigrant worker to death in Athens on Thursday, and are investigating whether the ... 

• Ghana arrests Ble Goude, wanted in Ivory Coast

  Authorities in Ghana on Thursday arrested Charles Ble Goude, the former leader of an ultranationalist youth movement in Ivory Coast wanted in ... 

• Germany arrests alleged smuggler of stimulant qat

  German authorities say they've arrested a Somali man accused of organizing the transport across Europe of more than 7 tons of qat, a mildly addictive ...