Mr. Nasheed skipped two court appointments -- one in October last year and another this February -- which led to the order for his arrest.

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Vazquez requested an international arrest order for Barrientos, who has been living in Florida since the early 1990s.

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In Pakistan, the Supreme Court's arrest order for Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Tuesday was likely to inflame antagonism between the government and the court.

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