arrest
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That case involved two Belgian teenagers, who were arrested in possession of nearly 5,000 ants, mostly stored in test tubes.
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“Mankind from the view of a biologist,” he writes, “is an animal species in a state of arrested differentiation and possible readmixture.”
Some of the arrests were for posting video clips documenting missile attacks and interceptions.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said their forces had arrested 10 "foreign spies" in the northeastern Razavi Khorasan province but did not give their nationalities.
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Police arrested the pair on charges of violating the country's computer crime law last month after raiding their homes.
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