Despite the ongoing sex crimes case, for which he was temporarily jailed ( a detention that "Saturday Night Live" spoofed), Assange insisted that WikiLeaks was still operating.

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As recently as Friday morning, Afghan workers at the Defense Ministry were arranging transport for dignitaries and journalists to attend Saturday's ceremony at the detention center adjoining the Bagram Air Field, a U.S. base about an hour outside of the capital.

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The reported detention follows a warning on Saturday by Mr Mugabe's spokesman of state action against journalists for "mis-reporting" on the cholera outbreak.

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Supporters, who consider him a whistleblower who exposed war crimes and helped trigger the upheavals of the Arab Spring, held events on Saturday to mark his 1, 000th day of detention.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The long-awaited transfer of the U.S. detention center in Afghanistan was delayed once again Saturday after a deal struck between the two governments broke down before the planned handover ceremony.

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On Saturday, more than 450 Filipinos, including 250 who had been arrested and held in a detention centre, left Sabah, the latest of about 2, 000 deportations on navy ships before the suspension was announced, officials said.

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Dutschke, 41, was arrested Saturday by FBI agents at his home in Tupelo, and is being held without bond pending a preliminary and detention hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss.

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