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Brazil's Bolsonaro eases rules for gun enthusiasts

May 07, 2019 (AFP)

Beaming members of Congress and industry lobbyists clapped and made pistol signs with their hands as the ex-army captain relaxed rules that critics fear could p...

Spanish and E.Guinea navy rescue 20 crew from pirate hijacking

May 07, 2019 (AFP)

The captain of the Maltese-flagged vessel sounded the alarm on Sunday after their ship was approached by armed pirates, the ministry said, with the crew taking ...

ICC president urges US to join global criminal court

Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)

ICC president Chile Eboe-Osuji called on the US to "join her closest allies and friends at the table of the Rome Statute", referring to the court's founding doc...

Spain takes over EU anti-piracy mission from Britain due to Brexit

Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)

Spanish vice admiral Antonio Martorell relieved British major general Charlie Strickland as commander of the so-called "Operation Atalanta" during a solemn cere...

Italy, Austria smash mafia arms trafficking ring: officials

Mar 26, 2019 (AFP)

Authorities arrested 22 people including a father and son team of Austrian gunsmiths who illegally supplied the Naples-based syndicate with weapons that had the...

Sudan says Turkish naval ship to boost 'Red Sea security'

Mar 09, 2019 (AFP)

Ties between Khartoum and Ankara have grown since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sudan in December 2017 as part of a plan to gain a strategic fo...

New president to inherit a Mexico plagued with grisly violence

Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)

These grim scenes have increasingly become the norm in Mexico, a country gripped by violence stemming from its war on drugs which since 2006 has seen more than ...

Vessel tracking exposes the dark side of trading at sea

Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)

"The practice of transshipment - refrigerated cargo vessels meeting with fishing boats at sea to exchange seafood, crew, fuel or supplies - is common in many fi...

Three Mexican soldiers killed in ambush

May 09, 2018 (AFP)

After receiving an anonymous tip that armed men were hiding out at a ranch in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan, an army patrol went to the site Tuesday nig...

US targets Chinese fentanyl 'kingpin' with sanctions

Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)

It designated Zhang Jian, of Shanghai, as a top trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, allowing it to go after his financial interests ...

Singaporean guilty of sophisticated exam cheating plot

Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)

Tan Jia Yan, 32, pleaded guilty on Monday to her part in the plot in which answers to O-Level exams were relayed to at least six students via mobile phones conc...

S. Korea deploys warship to Ghana after pirates kidnap sailors

Apr 01, 2018 (AFP)

The 500-tonne Marine 711 with about 40 Ghanaian and three South Korean sailors was boarded by unidentified pirates last Monday. The pirates seized the three Sou...

Spain arrests 155 over Chinese human trafficking ring

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

The arrests, which included four alleged ringleaders detained in Barcelona, came after a three-year investigation, police said in a statement. "The dismantled n...

Off West Africa, navies team up in fight against piracy

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

But the "fisherman" is really a French navy seaman disguised in a T-shirt, cap and sunglasses -- a member of an unusual multinational training exercise to comba...

India seeks custody of fugitive arrested in Hong Kong

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

Ramanjit Singh, an Indian national on Interpol's global watch list, was detained this month by Hong Kong authorities for his alleged involvement in a local robb...

Vietnam cops seize $2.5 mn heroin in China border drug bust

Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)

The men were caught in northern Cao Bang province on the border with China with nearly 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin from Laos in their truck, state-run ...

The roots of Italian mafia lie in the lemon industry, new research suggests

Feb 22, 2018 (UPI)

It's not the first time historians have linked the explosion of Silicy's citrus sector with the birth of the mafia, but the study -- published in the Journal of...

Thai navy says 11 million pill haul a record from Laos

Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)

Authorities pounced as the boat landed in Nakhon Phanom on the Thai side of the Mekong, which acts as a natural border with Laos. Poor and remote, Nakhon Phanom...

Huge Australia-bound cocaine haul siezed by French navy

Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)

The 1.46 tonnes of the drug with an estimated street value of Aus$322 million (US$256 million) was seized in the South Pacific and four crew members, believed t...

Indonesia to deport 153 Chinese for $450 million scam

Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)

The syndicate, who ran their operation from abroad to avoid detection by Chinese officials but did not target any victims in their host country, made around six...