Convent-trained ex-rebel heads Nicaragua police
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A former novice who gave up training to be a nun to fight in a leftist insurrection against a hated dictator was sworn in on Tuesday as Nicaragua's police chief.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 4 -- Nigerian anti-corruption official Nuhu Ribadu agreed late Thursday to demands that he relinquish his post to take a training course, but he left open the possibility of returning later in the year.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with alleged ties to drug traffickers, Haitian radio reported.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police launched a  manhunt on Monday for a former soldier who has called for  guerrilla war against the interim government that took over  from ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a government  official said.
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ESTELI, Nicaragua  - The United States hoped it   had seen the last of Daniel Ortega, a Cold War foe who led   Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, when he was voted out of   power in 1990 after a brutal war against U.S.-backed rebels.
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, a fixture at Mayor Rudolph Giuliani&#39;s side during the Sept. 11 attacks, has been tapped to run the Department
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The Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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Ivory Coast's New Forces rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west African nation.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras  - Honduran police have  captured a grenade-carrying Nicaraguan they say was hired by  drug traffickers to assassinate the country's president,  officials said on Saturday.
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Former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism head to be rapped for role in aftermath of De Menezes shooting
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The former oversight commissioner Al Hutchinson is to succeed Nuala O'Loan as police ombudsman.
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BOGOTA -- Police captured a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel yesterday, the latest arrest in a US-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s. Dagoberto Florez was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by US authorities under a court ...
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A former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Thursday on charges of collaborating with Colombia's illegal far-right militias, his lawyer said.
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A top Army general said yesterday that the Iraqi insurgency was being run in part by former senior Iraqi Baath Party officials operating in Syria who call themselves the "New Regional Command."
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important rebel  commander ever captured by Colombia was sent to the United  States on Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnapping  charges.
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The head of the NSPCC in Belfast is to take charge of the Catholic church's Irish child protection board.