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U.S., U.K. help build West African partners' anti-piracy capabilities

Nov 19, 2015 (UPI)

U.S. Marines and U.K. Royal Marine Commandos completed their training of West African partner nations in anti-piracy capabilities. Marines and sailors from the ...

Villagers recall fear as troops fired in 'Chapo' raid

Oct 18, 2015 (AFP)

Ayon Mendoza was making tortillas when a burst of bullets hit her home in Mexico. She ran to get her toddler when two helicopters, apparently military, struck h...

Chinese 'thief' swallowed diamond, tried to flee Thailand

Sep 14, 2015 (AFP)

A Chinese woman who allegedly tried to smuggle a stolen diamond out of Thailand by swallowing it was released from hospital Monday after doctors removed the exp...

Army's role questioned in missing Mexican students case

Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)

An independent probe into the disappearance of 43 Mexican students put a spotlight on the army's failure to protect them from crooked police despite knowing abo...

Kenya's 'ivory kingpin' bail suspended

Aug 24, 2015 (AFP)

A court in Kenya on Monday suspended the release on bail of a suspected ringleader of an ivory smuggling gang following an appeal by government prosecutors. Ken...

Rio airport agents bribed in Chinese immigrant scandal

Aug 15, 2015 (AFP)

Immigration agents at Rio de Janeiro's airport are under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes to allow Chinese immigrants into the country illegally, Br...

All bets are off inside Laos' jungle sin city

Aug 03, 2015 (AFP)

It's nine in the morning and the gaming tables are still going strong. As croupiers take bets from the overnight die-hards, several exhausted gamblers sleep nea...

Football: FIFA sets election date as Blatter finally rules himself out

Jul 20, 2015 (AFP)

FIFA chiefs on Monday recommended proposals to reform the scandal tainted world football body and a special election on February 26 to replace president Sepp Bl...

Piracy, other maritime crimes rise in Southeast Asia

Jul 09, 2015 (UPI)

Maritime crimes, including piracy, increased 22 percent in Southeast Asia during the first six months of this year over the same period in 2014, according to a ...

Mexico army ordered soldiers to kill criminals: NGO

Jul 02, 2015 (AFP)

Mexican military documents show soldiers were given a standing order to kill criminals, just days before the alleged extrajudicial execution of several gang sus...

Malaysian navy shadows tanker, urges hijackers to give up

Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)

Malaysia's navy has located a tanker that disappeared a week ago in the South China Sea and was urging its hijackers to surrender, the country's naval chief sai...

Polish bootcamp trains security contractors for mission impossible

May 21, 2015 (AFP)

Five men, armed to the teeth, have just stormed a home and it did not go well, not well at all. "You killed a kid!" screamed the instructor. A glance at the bul...

A blast and gunfire: Mexico's chopper battle

May 03, 2015 (AFP)

A blast and gunfire rattled the hamlet in western Mexico where a drug cartel brought down a military helicopter in an intense battle that left three troops dead...

Sagem-led consortium intoduces anti-piracy system

Feb 05, 2015 (UPI)

An integrated system to protect commercial ships against piracy has been unveiled by a European consortium coordinated by Sagem. The system from Autoprotection ...

China arrests Turks, Uighurs in human smuggling plot: report

Jan 14, 2015 (AFP)

China has arrested 10 Turkish citizens and nine Uighurs over a plot to smuggle the members of the ethnic minority -- including a wanted "terrorist" -- out of th...

Two police to hang for murder in Malaysian corruption scandal

Jan 13, 2015 (AFP)

Malaysia's highest court on Tuesday upheld death sentences for two police officers convicted of murder in a sensational scandal linked to allegations of high-le...

Nobel protester sought to draw attention to 'murdered Mexican students'

Dec 11, 2014 (AFP)

A young man who disrupted the Nobel prize ceremony in Oslo by waving a Mexican flag streaked with red said Thursday he did it to denounce the alleged killing of...

Corruption on rise in Turkey, China: Transparency

Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)

Corruption is feared to be worsening in China, Turkey and other fast-growing economies, an anti-graft watchdog warned Wednesday, also urging the world's banking...

Hijacked Singaporean ship released near Nigeria: Seoul

Aug 03, 2014 (AFP)

A hijacked Singaporean oil tanker carrying 21 sailors was released on Sunday a week after being seized by pirates in waters off Ghana in west Africa, Seoul's fo...

Chinese fish farmer freed after Malaysia kidnapping

Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)

A Chinese fish farm manager who was kidnapped in May has been released amid a spate of abductions in Malaysia by gunmen based in the southern Philippines, polic...