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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 апреля 2014, 13:57

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 апреля 2014, 13:43

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children were found dead at a house in London, British police said.

• 23 апреля 2014, 17:56

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 апреля 2014, 02:08

US police arrested a man late Friday after he entered the Los Angeles Times building and threatened to start shooting, the newspaper said.

• 20 апреля 2014, 11:39

Police in Brazil have named 46 people, including an ex-executive at oil giant Petrobras, as suspects in an alleged $4.5 billion money laundering and drug operation, officials said.

• 18 апреля 2014, 10:52

A former Riviera lawyer was convicted on Friday of killing a glamorous casino heiress 36 years ago, after a legal battle that has gripped France.

• 12 апреля 2014, 12:41

Italian prosecutors on Thursday approved a request by Silvio Berlusconi's lawyers for the three-time prime minister to do community service rather than face house arrest following a tax fraud conviction.

• 11 апреля 2014, 13:08

At least 44 people were injured and more than 100 were arrested after a California student street party turned into a huge brawl, police said.

• 07 апреля 2014, 10:00

Domenico Rancadore, the convicted Italian mafia boss who last week was told he was free to remain in Britain, has been arrested on a fresh international warrant, police said Saturday.

• 05 апреля 2014, 13:52

Singapore authorities said Thursday they had intercepted about one tonne of ivory worth $1.6 million in a shipping container from Africa marked as carrying coffee berries.

• 04 апреля 2014, 10:19

Three Venezuelan air force generals accused of plotting a coup against the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro were arrested, amid a widening crackdown on the opposition.

• 26 марта 2014, 16:32

Venezuela's intelligence service arrested and charged the opposition mayor of restive San Cristobal, where anti-government protests broke out more than a month ago.

• 20 марта 2014, 17:31

A Hollywood skin-care expert boasting celebrity clients including Jennifer Aniston and Nicki Minaj pleaded not guilty Wednesday to plotting to have a business rival killed.

• 20 марта 2014, 12:42

US rapper Chris Brown was arrested Friday for allegedly breaching his probation stemming from the troubled singer's notorious 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, police said.

• 15 марта 2014, 11:13

Interpol said Friday it was considering a request from Ukraine's new government to issue an arrest warrant for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych.

• 07 марта 2014, 17:06

At least 41 people, including foreign reporters, were arrested in Caracas late Friday as security forces battled protesters angry at the policies of Venezuela's leftist government.

• 01 марта 2014, 14:47

Darkhan Sabdenov, former employee of CenterCredit Bank, has been taken into a 20-day custody for distributing misleading information about alleged bankruptcy of his former employer.

• 24 февраля 2014, 15:36

Australian police said Friday they had arrested and X-rayed a man over the theft of a pink diamond worth more than US$180,000, with fears he had swallowed the rare jewel.

• 21 февраля 2014, 17:12

35 people were arrested during 2 days of protests in Almaty city. All of them got fined, except for one man who will spend 10 days in jail.

• 17 февраля 2014, 21:16