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By AFP
Lahore -
Pakistani authorities refused to let a top human rights lawyer leave the country, citing her "anti-state activities", she told AFP on Monday, in what appeared to be the latest example of an ongoing rights crackdown.
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Rajura -
Hariyal, a parrot from India, was detained after it hurled obscenities at an 85-year-old woman. The woman was his owner's stepmother.
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Pyongyang -
Another American is detained on equally stupifying reasons as the other two. The US is trying to get them out, but how effective can negotiations really be?
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Now that the State Department has relaxed some of its previous travel restrictions, the prospect of visiting the once forbidden land of North Korea has tempted many an adventurer. For Korean War veteran Merrill Newman, it was the chance of a lifetime.
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A passenger on a Virgin flight said that he was detained after a member of the cabin crew accused him of not flushing the toilet.
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London -
An Australian-born WikiLeaks lawyer and human rights activist has been stopped at a London airport and advised that she is on an “inhibited fly list.”
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Islamabad -
Pakistani authorities have charged Osama bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and living in the country, the interior minister, Rehman Malik, told reporters Thursday.
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Los Angeles -
Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man turned celebrity with a radio voice, was detained by Los Angeles police after a disturbance at a hotel in Hollywood, California.
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Seven Cuban doctors seeking to fly to Miami from Venezuela have been detained and their passports seized by local authorities. It is feared that they will be deported to Cuba, where they could face reprisals.
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Authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have detained a number of foreign journalists covering the unrest there. Reports also say information reaching Xinjiang is being blocked by the Communist Party government.
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As part of a "re-tool" of the military commission trials President Obama is mulling over the possibility of detaining some alleged terror suspects indefinitely, and without trial, on US soil.
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Parents of victims of the tainted milk scandal in China have accused authorities of trying to silence them by blocking a news conference. Several parents have been arrested.
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The story of a journalist for the AP has finally got a bit of good news. An Iraqi judicial panel has dismissed all criminal allegations from Bilal Hussein and ordered his release after a detainment of two years and one day with the U.S. military.
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Michael Futi of Tafuna, American Samoa died Friday in a locked room at Honolulu International Airport. The infant was 14 days old and on route to hospital for heart surgery when he, his mothers and a nurse were detained at the airport.
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After prohibited imports in his luggage and that of his entourage were found, Sylvester Stallone was detained for hours on arrival at Sydney Airport.
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Three Fort Lewis soldiers have been arrested in connection with a bar fight in Lacey.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Police on Wednesday detained about 40 members of a Turkish nationalist party who earlier had occupied one of Istanbul's most famous buildings, the Haghia Sophia, to protest the visit next week of Pope Benedict XVI
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