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Ecuador sentences ex-president to 12 years in absentia An Ecuadoran court on Thursday sentenced exiled ex-president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in jail for corruption.
30 May 2014 21:14
Malaysian police arrest 13 over gang-rape of teen Malaysian police have arrested at least 13 people -- many of who are related -- over the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, reports said.
30 May 2014 14:04
Australian arrested in Indonesia for drug possession An Australian man faces up to 20 years in an Indonesian prison after being arrested with a stash of drugs in his possession, police said.
28 May 2014 10:18
China police seize 1.8 tonnes of bomb material in Xinjiang: govt Police in China's restive Xinjiang seized 1.8 tonnes of bombmaking material and detained five people, authorities said Tuesday, following a string of deadly attacks blamed on militants from the Muslim Uighur homeland.
27 May 2014 14:26
Reward for S. Korea ferry owner upped to $500,000 Under-pressure South Korean prosecutors on Monday upped to $500,000 a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive businessman in connection with last month's ferry disaster.
26 May 2014 14:34
Drugs case against Tunisia blogger dismissed A prominent Tunisian blogger who accused police of fabricating drugs charges against him walked free from court on Friday after a judge threw out the case.
25 May 2014 17:41
Iran hangs man convicted of $2.6 bn bank scam An Iranian businessman convicted of masterminding a $2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in the country's history, was hanged on Saturday, state media reported.
24 May 2014 14:46
Mexico arrests suspected mastermind of mass kidnapping Mexican authorities have arrested the man suspected of ordering the murder of 13 young people who were kidnapped in a brazen daytime abduction in the capital last year.
23 May 2014 13:20
US kidnap, sex abuse victim found alive after 10 years California police have arrested a 41-year-old man accused of kidnapping a teenager and sexually abusing her for a decade, after the alleged victim got in touch via Facebook.
22 May 2014 11:40
US man jailed for 25 years for Obama ricin plot A Mississippi man who concocted and then sent potentially lethal ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other senior US officials was jailed Monday for 25 years.
20 May 2014 12:18
Man charged with arson amid raging California fires A 57 year-old man was charged Friday with starting one of the several fires tearing across southern California that has killed at least one person, local police said.
17 May 2014 18:21
Venezuelan police arrest 105 in clashes Venezuelan police arrested 105 people and fired tear gas at anti-government student protesters who hurled stones and fireworks Wednesday at a ministry building in the capital, officials said.
15 May 2014 10:37
Mother, daughter held after Spain politician shot dead Spanish police arrested a mother and daughter suspected of shooting dead a ruling party politician in broad daylight Monday in apparent revenge after the younger woman lost her job.
13 May 2014 11:03
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdown Police in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014 13:58
US judge jails Chris Brown for violating probation Troubled singer Chris Brown admitted Friday to violating his probation and was jailed for a year in Los Angeles, though he was given credit for about eight months already served.
10 May 2014 12:54
Taiwanese woman jailed for trafficking Cambodian fishermen A Taiwanese woman was on Tuesday jailed for 10 years by a Cambodian court for trafficking hundreds of people to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats off Africa.
29 April 2014 13:57
Algeria seizes 8 tonnes of cannabis smuggled from Morocco Algerian security forces have seized more than eight tonnes of cannabis in the port city of Oran, smuggled from neighbouring Morocco, and arrested six traffickers, the police said.
25 April 2014 13:43
UK woman held for murder after children's bodies found A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead at a house in London, British police said.
23 April 2014 17:56
President says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder' The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized last week with hundreds of children on board acted in a way "tantamount to murder," President Park Guen-Hye said Monday, as four more crew members were arrested.
22 April 2014 02:08
US police arrest man after LA Times shooting threat US police arrested a man late Friday after he entered the Los Angeles Times building and threatened to start shooting, the newspaper said.
20 April 2014 11:39
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