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Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP

Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP

ECUADOREAN authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas, seizing him from the Mexican embassy and prompting Mexico to suspend bilateral relations. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, a request Mexico granted earlier on Friday. Police forcefully entered Mexico's embassy in Quito before making the arrest, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador posted on X. The Ecuadorean president's office said in a statement it had arrested Glas, who was vice president under the leftist government of Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017. There was a heavy military…
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Togolese opposition members arrested over campaign against new constitution

Togolese opposition members arrested over campaign against new constitution

NINE Togolese politicians who were running a campaign against a new constitution that could allow President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his 19-year rule have been arrested, a spokesperson for an opposition coalition said. Opposition voices are growing in the tiny phosphate-producing West African nation over constitutional reform that could change the way the president is elected. Some members of the opposition coalition were detained on Wednesday afternoon while they were campaigning against the constitution at a market in the suburbs of Togolese capital Lome, spokesperson Thomas Nsoukpoe said. Others were detained at night during a meeting at the house of a coalition…
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Police arrest former soccer player Robinho in Brazil

Police arrest former soccer player Robinho in Brazil

POLICE arrested former soccer player Robinho in the Brazilian city of Santos to serve out a nine-year prison sentence for rape, local news website G1 reported. Robinho's defence had filed a petition to Brazil's Supreme Court to avoid his arrest, but the appeal was rejected on Thursday. On Wednesday, a separate local court ruled the athlete must serve his sentence in Brazil, though he was convicted in Italy.
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After months in jail, Senegalese family vows to vote out ruling party

After months in jail, Senegalese family vows to vote out ruling party

WHEN Aramata Djiba was arrested and taken with her four-month-old baby to a maximum security prison in Senegal's capital Dakar, she said she felt it was the "end of the world". "I had no hope... I cried for a week," said the 29-year-old kindergarten teacher. She said she shared a cell, and a single toilet, with more than 40 other women for six months. Djiba, who was indicted in September alongside five of her relatives on criminal charges the family say were politically motivated, was released this week under a new amnesty law. Djiba is elated to be free, but nonetheless…
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Ethiopian police arrest French journalist, employer says

Ethiopian police arrest French journalist, employer says

ETHIOPIAN police have arrested a French journalist on suspicion of "conspiracy to create chaos", his employer said. Antoine Galindo was arrested last Thursday while on assignment in the capital Addis Ababa, the Africa Intelligence publication said in a statement. It said a judge on Saturday prolonged Galindo's detention until March 1. Africa Intelligence said Galindo "has been suspected of 'conspiracy to create chaos in Ethiopia' and was brought before a judge on 24 February." The publication said its lawyer attended the hearing and was told about the charges. "Africa Intelligence condemns the unjustified arrest ... and calls for his immediate…
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Man to be charged with murder for deadly Johannesburg fire

Man to be charged with murder for deadly Johannesburg fire

SOUTH African police have arrested a man suspected of starting the fire that killed more than 70 people in a hijacked building in downtown Johannesburg in August. The 29-year-old man confessed to an inquiry tasked with determining responsibility for the blaze that he was involved in starting it, the police said in a statement sent to Reuters. He is expected to appear before a Johannesburg court soon on charges of arson, 77 counts of murder and 120 counts of attempted murder, the statement said. One of the worst disasters in living memory in South Africa's economic hub, the blaze broke out on August 31…
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Polish priest arrested, charged with sex crimes after alleged orgy

Polish priest arrested, charged with sex crimes after alleged orgy

A Polish priest was arrested and charged with sex and drug crimes as well as failure to assist a person at medical risk after media reports that a man collapsed at a sex party at his home, state news agency PAP said. The diocese in southwest Poland has been engulfed in scandal since reports emerged last September of an orgy at the home of a priest in the town of Dabrowa Gornicza. The priest, referred to as Tomasz Z due to Polish privacy laws, was placed in pre-trial detention after his arrest on Monday. He could face up to 10…
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Belgian police arrest three after witness overheard possible attack plot

Belgian police arrest three after witness overheard possible attack plot

BELGIAN authorities morning stopped a bus travelling to Brussels from northern France and arrested three people after a passenger overheard them discussing a possible 'terrorist' plot, the local public prosecution office said. "Every time we get a notification like that we take it very seriously and we don't want to take any risk," a spokesperson at the Ghent prosecution office told Reuters, adding that police were currently checking the bus, its 46 passengers and their luggage. She declined to disclose any details on the suspects as well as on the content of their conversation. Belgium is on heightened alert after…
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Congo arrests six soldiers accused of killing civilians

Congo arrests six soldiers accused of killing civilians

AUTHORITIES in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested six soldiers who are accused of the indiscriminate killing of four civilians during militia clashes in the east. The clashes took place in the rural district of Mangina, near Beni, on Monday, the army said in a statement on Tuesday. Security had deteriorated there since last month when a member of the provincial assembly encouraged young people to take up arms, forming a small-scale militia to oppose the army, the statement from local army spokesperson Antony Mwalushayi said. The parliamentarian named in the statement, Alain Siwako, denied this. He told Reuters…
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Indian AI startup CEO arrested after body of 4-year-old son found in luggage

Indian AI startup CEO arrested after body of 4-year-old son found in luggage

THE CEO of an Indian AI startup has been arrested on suspicion that she murdered her four-year-old son after his body was found in her luggage, police said. Suchana Seth, who heads The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained in the Chitradurga district of Karnataka state when she was returning from the neighbouring state of Goa by taxi and arrested after the body was found in her luggage, they said. Seth could not be reached for comment as she was in custody and police said they did not know if she has a lawyer as…
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