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USS Winston Churchill crews seize illegal weapons off coast of Somalia

Feb 16, 2021 (UPI)

The Churchill's Visit, Board, Search and Seizure team and its embarked joint service Advanced Interdiction Team found a cache of weapons during a flag verificat...

Jade and rubies: how Myanmar's military amassed its fortune

Feb 12, 2021 (AFP)

After last week's coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi -- and the subsequent protest crackdown -- calls have grown for international penalties. On Thur...

UK police given more time to hold tanker 'hijack' seven

Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)

Hampshire Police said magistrates had granted an extension to hold the group for further questioning on suspicion they attempted to hijack the Nave Andromeda. T...

Seven held for attempted hijacking off UK coast

Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)

"The seven men have been arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force," Hampshire Police said in a statement. The...

Death toll rises to 11 in Colombia rioting over police killing

Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)

Demonstrators first took to the streets of the Colombian capital on Wednesday and again Thursday after video emerged of attorney Javier Ordonez pleading with un...

USS Detroit deployed for counternarcotics operations

Sep 08, 2020 (UPI)

This is the Detroit's second deployment to the region for counternarcotics operations -- the first being in November 2019. "I have learned a lot from our last d...

Mexico to probe extrajudicial killing by army; 6 killed as Peru forces clash traffickers

Aug 24, 2020 (AFP)

The newspaper El Universal published a video that it said was of a pursuit and armed clash in the northeastern border city of Nuevo Laredo that left a dozen sus...

'Virtual kidnappings' warning for Chinese students in Australia

Jul 27, 2020 (AFP)

Police said that conmen claiming to be Chinese authorities had netted millions of US dollars in ransoms by scaring students into faking their own kidnappings. T...

Mexico navy implicated in disappearance of 27 people

Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)

The commission said Tuesday it had investigated the disappearances in the northern state of Tamaulipas of the 27 people, who were "arbitrarily detained and disa...

China says five sailors kidnapped off Nigeria

Jul 06, 2020 (AFP)

"On July 2... a Singapore cargo ship was attacked by pirates in Nigerian waters and five Chinese sailors were kidnapped," the foreign ministry in Beijing said. ...

Sweden extradites Chinese 'multi-million-dollar money launderer' to US

Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)

A former official of the Chinese state grain administration, Qiao Jianjun is wanted by Beijing under a sweeping government campaign against corruption for embez...

Trump orders Pentagon to boost drug interdiction efforts

Apr 01, 2020 (AFP)

Trump together with Pentagon leaders said they were doubling the number of ships and aircraft committed to tracking and seizing drugs coming up to the United St...

In Colombia, fleet of cartel narco-subs poses challenge for navy

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

With cocaine production at an almost record high in the South American country, authorities on the southwestern coast say the crude semi-submersible craft have ...

Four Chinese sailors kidnapped in Gabon are free

Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)

A Nigerian security source separately told AFP Tuesday that the four had been freed in a military operation. "The consulate general in Lagos cooperated with the...

Bolsonaro pardons Brazil security forces convicted of unintentional crimes

Dec 24, 2019 (AFP)

The 64-year-old was elected just over a year ago on a campaign in which he vowed to get tough on crime. But he caused uproar even before he was elected last yea...

Four sailors kidnapped by suspected pirates off Togo: navy

Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)

In a statement the navy said "armed individuals" launched the overnight attack when the boat was some 10 nautical miles off the coast of the capital Lome. Armed...

Seventeen Chinese, Ukrainian seamen kidnapped off Cameroon

Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)

The attacks took place on Thursday in Cameroonian waters off the port of Douala, located at the apex of a gulf that has become a hotspot of seaborne crime. A Do...

Asian, European seamen kidnapped off Cameroon: navy source

Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)

"(They) were abducted this morning," said the source, who gave no details about the number or nationality of the kidnap victims. "The kidnappers are probably Ni...

Myanmar 'categorically rejects' UN report on army business empire

Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)

The UN fact-finding mission urged the international community to sever all ties with companies linked to the armed forces and to implement a complete arms embar...

Amid fentanyl crackdown, Mexico risks 'balloon effect'

May 31, 2019 (AFP)

Under pressure from Trump, China on May 1 banned all chemical analogues of fentanyl, the synthetic drug at the heart of an overdose epidemic that is killing ten...