VIENNA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The former mayor of Stavropol in southwestern Russia, accused of corruption, was arrested Sunday at Vienna airport as he tried to enter the country, the local prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

JALALABAD, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - About 200 people, mostly Islamic clerics and mullahs, demonstrated here Wednesday to protest the detention of 'innocent people' by US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses said.

The men blocked a key road between the eastern town of Jalalabad and the Pakistani border, demanding the release of a cleric detained by US forces over the weekend.

NEW YORK, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - FBI agents on Tuesday arrested the alleged former head of New York's infamous Gambino crime family, John 'Junior' Gotti, on murder-related charges, local television reported.

Gotti was seized in suburban Long Island and was due to be arraigned later in Manhattan, WNBC reported.

AMMAN, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - The first woman to lead a Jordanian political party has been arrested over claims she manufactured and sold unlicenced medicine, a security official said on Tuesday.

KINSHASA, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Police have arrested the leader of a small opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo and charged him with threatening state security, a rights group said Monday.

NAIROBI, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - Kenyan police captured two suspected aides to Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Comoran Al-Qaeda operative wanted over the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a senior officer said Sunday.

Mohammed himself narrowly escaped Saturday's raid in the coastal town of Malindi, the anti-terrorism police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.

NEW YORK, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - FBI agents on Saturday arrested a man accused of abducting his seven-year-old daughter, sparking a national manhunt and fevered speculation over the flamboyant fugitive's identity.

NEW YORK, August 2, 2008 (AFP) - FBI agents on Saturday finally tracked down a man who abducted his seven-year-old daughter, sparking a national manhunt and fevered speculation over his true identity.

MADRID, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Spanish police said Friday that they had arrested a man suspected of links to an Al-Qaeda affiliated group in north Africa.

Kamel Salhi was arrested in the eastern city of Alicante, and police found in his home dozens of fake Spanish work contracts for north African immigrants.

YANGON, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Myanmar's most famous comedian has appeared in court alongside a popular sports writer and two political activists, but no formal charges were filed against them, a lawyer told AFP Friday.

The four appeared at a secret court inside the notorious Insein prison in the economic hub Yangon, for the first time since their arrests in June.