Egypt police arrest Al-Jazeera journalists: ministryEgyptian secret police have arrested an award-winning Australian journalist and an Egyptian reporter for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel on suspicion of illegally broadcasting news harming "domestic security", the interior ministry said.
US charges three more people in Silk Road website caseUS authorities said Friday three more people were charged in connection with the operation of Silk Road, the online black market bazaar for drugs, hacker tools and other illicit goods.
22 December 2013 09:07
Row grows after US Marshals strip-search Indian diplomatUS officials admitted Tuesday that they strip-searched a female Indian diplomat after she was arrested in New York in a new twist to a growing row that has seen India hit back with reprisals such as removing security barriers around the US embassy.
18 December 2013 10:27
Star wine dealer goes on trial for fraud in NYCStar Indonesian-born wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan went on trial in New York Monday, accused of blending ordinary wines into fake vintages in his California kitchen to sell to wealthy collectors.
10 December 2013 13:35
Czech national robbed in AstanaA citizen of the Czech Republic was robbed in Astana by three unemployed local men who were waiting for her near a currency exchange.
Details of Kazakhstan nationals' arrest in Dubai unveiledTwo of the men arrested on the night of October 30 in Dubai were natives of Uralsk town in Kazakhstan: Asylbek Shukranov has been living in the UAE for 5 years and Kuanish Uteshev came on a tourist visa with his family.
90 arrests, trucks, buses torched in Sao Paulo unrestOne person was injured and 90 detained while trucks and buses were torched in Sao Paulo late Monday in renewed violence after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy.
29 October 2013 16:35
Myanmar makes biggest heroin bust this yearMyanmar police said Thursday they had arrested a man with 133 kilos (293 pounds) of heroin worth $2 million at local prices -- the country's biggest seizure of the drug this year.
380 arrested in Moscow race riotMoscow police arrested more than 380 people Sunday during a race riot in which nationalists outraged by a murder blamed on a migrant smashed shop windows and assaulted security guards.
Obama says captured Libyan will be brought to justiceUS President Barack Obama said Tuesday an alleged Al-Qaeda operative snatched by US commandos in Libya was involved in plots that killed hundreds of people and will be brought to justice.
Venezuela arrests 22 in Air France cocaine bustVenezuela has arrested 22 people including eight military staff in a smuggling case in which 1.3 tons of cocaine were flown from Caracas to Paris on an Air France jet.
