1.   It was the first nationwide sweep of stock fraud on the Web.

2.   Over the weekend, Hungarian police launched a nationwide sweep to crackdown on illegal immigrants, state-run news agency MTI reported.

3.   Police continued detaining immigrants Sunday, the second day of a nationwide sweep, as part of an effort to curb crime.

4.   Brazilian police have launched a nationwide sweep aimed at curbing the illegal trade in prescription medications by arresting the sellers and seizing medicines.

5.   Ghani was arrested in a nationwide sweep by federal authorities who questioned and detained dozens of people in major cities.

6.   Prosecutors urged a federal magistrate Wednesday not to release a man arrested in a nationwide sweep of financial networks with alleged ties to terrorist groups.

7.   Ten other people were arrested in the nationwide sweep, authorities said on customary anonymity.

8.   Thirteen people were arrested in the nationwide sweep over the past three months.

9.   Thousands of drug traffickers and addicts have been rounded up and tons of narcotics seized in a week-long nationwide sweep, Tehran radio reported Sunday.

10.   Six hundred gendarmes were mobilised to carry out the nationwide sweep.