TEHRAN, Jul 22 - Kenya’s finance minister will be arrested and charged over corruption related to the construction of two dams, the chief prosecutor said on Monday, an unprecedented event for a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft.
TEHRAN, Jul 12 - U.S. authorities on Sunday will begin arresting at least 2,000 immigrant families eligible for deportation in a nationwide series of raids long threatened by President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported, citing former and current officials.
TEHRAN, Jul 5 -An exiled academic and political dissident says Saudi authorities have launched a new arrest campaign against Palestinian expatriates living in the conservative kingdom.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 -Chinese authorities have detained a man in connection with an investigation of an incident in which a man poured a bottle of water over Robin Li, chief executive of Chinese search giant Baidu Inc, at a conference, police said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - Scores of people with links to an ethno-nationalist party in Ethiopia's Amhara state have been arrested after an attempted coup in the region, a party spokesman said Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jun 25 - Egyptian authorities on Tuesday detained a leader of the 2011 uprising that unseated long-time president Hosni Mubarak, accusing him and others of a plot to bring down the government.
TEHRAN, Jun 20 -Researchers at the University of Washington developed a tool for smart speakers such as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Home that can monitor people for cardiac arrest while they're sleeping -- and call for help if needed.
TEHRAN, Jun 18 - Former Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president Michel Platini has been arrested as part of an investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
TEHRAN, Jun 8 -Sudanese military forces have detained leading opposition members after they met with visiting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was in the capital Khartoum to help end the ongoing political impasse in the country.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Bosnian police arrested 20 people after migrants rioted at a reception center in the northwestern town of Velika Kladusa early on Wednesday, authorities said.
TEHRAN, May 25 - A Maltese armed forces patrol boat picked up more than 200 migrants from two dinghies in the Mediterranean and was bringing them to Malta on Saturday, a spokesman said.
TEHRAN, May 14 - A judicial official says an Iranian woman has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars after she was found guilty of spying for Britain.
TEHRAN, May 10 - A former American intelligence analyst has been arrested in the United States for allegedly handing classified information regarding the country’s drone strike program to a journalist.
TEHRAN, May 06 -Sri Lanka police arrested two men after a personal feud led to clashes between two sectarian groups in a beachside resort north of the capital, the site of one of the deadliest Easter Sunday suicide bombings, as schools reopened to near-empty classes.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - An Iranian intelligence official said the security forces in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan arrested 60 elements that had links with the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) last year.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - Turkey says it has arrested several people, including a member of the ruling AK Party, after the country’s main opposition leader was attacked on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Apr 16 -British police have arrested 113 people after climate change activists blocked some of London’s most famous roads including Oxford Circus, Marble Arch and Waterloo Bridge in an attempt force the government to do more to tackle climate change.
TEHRAN, Apr 14 -The former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate has a bone to pick with the WikiLeaks founder, who was arrested yesterday on a US extradition warrant. Back in 2016, the whistleblowers leaked damaging internal communications from her presidential campaign that ultimately ended in defeat.