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Somali pirate suspects deny 'attack' on Spanish anti-pirate ship: court

Oct 07, 2013 (AFP)

Six Somali men went on trial Monday in Madrid accused of trying to attack a Spanish warship in 2012 during an anti-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean. The men...

US authorities shut Silk Road website, arrest owner

Oct 02, 2013 (AFP)

US authorities said Wednesday that they have busted an online black market for drugs, hitmen, hacker tools and more, arresting the suspected mastermind of a nef...

Russia home to text message fraud cottage industry

Aug 02, 2013 (AFP)

Researchers have discovered that bilking people by infecting Android mobile phones with viruses has become a cottage industry in Russia in a criminal model that...

Global gangs rake in $870 bn a year: UN official

Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)

Police find it hard to compete with international crime syndicates who rake in $870 billion a year via activities from drug trading and human trafficking to ide...

Mexican generals freed after cartel charges dropped

Jul 05, 2013 (AFP)

Four senior Mexican military officers walked free from prison Friday after they were cleared of charges that they protected a drug cartel, putting a spotlight o...

Mexicans turn to social media to report on drug war

Jun 26, 2013 (AFP)

They tweet and blog about street gunfights and murders in Mexican regions plagued by the drug war, keeping people informed about gangland crimes which local new...

Sydney customs officers ran drugs ring, report says

Jun 24, 2013 (UPI)

An atmosphere of "denial" that corruption could exist allowed Australian customs officers to run a drugs trafficking operation, a government report said. The re...

New Moldova P.M. Leanca says country remains on pro-EU course

Jun 18, 2013 (UPI)

Moldova's new prime minister says recent political upheaval and corruption concerns in the former Soviet state won't hinder its pro-European Union course. Iurie...

Global cybercrime ring targeted by Microsoft and FBI

Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)

Microsoft on Wednesday said it teamed with the FBI to disrupt armies of hacked computers used to commit more than a half-billion dollars in financial fraud arou...

NATO anti-piracy ops until 2016

Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)

Shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa will continue to be patrolled by maritime forces of NATO-members until 2016 to protect against piracy, the alliance has an...

Report: Belgian army sold helicopters to firm linked to trafficking

Apr 30, 2013 (UPI)

The Belgian army sold military equipment to a company with suspected links to illegal arms trafficking and money laundering, a newspaper investigation revealed....

US feds 'kidnapped' suspected druglord: Guinea-Bissau

Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)

Guinea-Bissau complained on Monday that its former navy chief had been "kidnapped" from its territorial waters by US federal agents investigating a trans-Atlant...

US ships look to net big contraband catches in Pacific

Apr 02, 2013 (AFP)

The bow of the USS Thach was slicing the Pacific waters off Colombia's coast when the alarm suddenly blared across the US Navy frigate. It was time to hunt down...

US court convicts Somali pirates in navy ship attack

Feb 27, 2013 (AFP)

A US court on Wednesday convicted five Somali men of piracy over a 2010 attack on a US naval ship in the corsair-infested waters off the Horn of Africa. The fiv...

Ukraine to join NATO anti-piracy mission

Feb 22, 2013 (AFP)

Ukraine will provide a ship to take part in NATO's Ocean Shield anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa, the first alliance partner nation to do so, NATO h...

16 gunmen killed in Thai military base attack: army

Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)

Scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a military base in unrest-plagued southern Thailand, an army spokesman said Wednesday, in a major assault that left at le...

Japan police arrest mobster in Fukushima clean-up

Feb 01, 2013 (AFP)

Japanese police have arrested a high-ranking yakuza over claims he sent workers to Fukushima for the radiological clean-up without a licence, the first arrest o...

Mexico scrambles to stem violence near capital

Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)

Less than two hours away from Mexico City, 50 marines and police officers manned a checkpoint, pulling over trucks, cars and taxis to look for any drugs or weap...

11 kidnapped Sudanese freed in Darfur: media

Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)

Kidnappers freed 11 Sudanese engineers and road builders in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Saturday, after the earlier release of their four Chinese co-worke...

Britain earmarks $3.56M for anti-piracy

Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)

Britain says it has earmarked $3.56 million to support U.N. anti-piracy efforts that seek to build prisons and upgrade the justice system in Somalia. Most of th...