As long ago as 1656, the English leader Oliver Cromwell observed that the seizure of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean “would be an advantage to our trade and an annoyance to the Spaniard.So it proved. British possession of the Gibraltar e
KHARTOUM - A former Darfur rebel group said on Tuesday it captured three gunmen who killed five Rwandan peacekeepers in attacks in the restive province last week. The gunmen were arrested east of Shangal Tobaya, a refugee camp in north Darfur, said
Conservative MP David Davis has called on the government to make a statement over what happened to two men arrested by the British military in Iraq.The men ended up in the American-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan, according to legal action charity
LONDON - Eleven men were arrested and a policewoman was taken to hospital Saturday after violence broke out at a far-right group's demonstration against Islamic extremism in central England, police said. The 29-year-old policewoman hurt her arm whi
TOKYO - Japanese police said on Saturday that they arrested four children of US military personnel on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman crashed her moped when it hit a rope that was stretched across the road. The 23-year-old suffered a fr
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines - Philippine troops took the patriarch of a powerful clan — a former governor — into custody Saturday after the president put his southern province under martial law to hunt down suspects in the country's wors
JAYAPURA, Indonesia - Indonesian police arrested 13 Papuans on Tuesday as activists demanded sovereignty at rallies to mark the 48th anniversary of Papuan independence , a police spokesman said. Riot police made the arrests as they dispersed up to
BRUSSELS - Serbia's cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has improved but Belgrade must keep up efforts to arrest the remaining fugitives, the court said in a report obtained by Reuters on Monday. Serbia is hoping the report b
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