Showing 1 - 10 of 284
Nigeria arrests leaders of terror group accused of 2022 jailbreak
AFP, Published on 17/08/2025
» LAGOS - Nigerian officials said Saturday they had arrested the alleged leaders of a jihadist group behind a 2022 jailbreak in the capital Abuja that temporarily freed hundreds of inmates.
'Welcome to hell': Freed migrants tell of horrors in Salvadoran jail
AFP, Published on 27/07/2025
» MARACAIBO (VENEZUELA) - Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.
Ecuador’s most-wanted gang leader ‘Fito’ captured
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» QUITO - Ecuador’s president has announced that the country’s most-wanted fugitive, Los Choneros gang leader “Fito”, had been recaptured over a year after his escape from prison triggered a wave of violence.
Three more Israeli hostages freed in Gaza
Published on 15/02/2025
» Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov arrived at a release site in Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a standoff that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire.
Fatal shooting stirs debate
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/01/2025
» An incident where police fatally shot a man armed with a firefighter's axe at Surin Hospital on Friday has stirred debate on whether such a response was commensurate with the threat. Only a fair probe and transparent public communication will clear the air and improve safety in public hospitals.
Syria needs another miracle for peace to stay
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/12/2024
» They're still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So what are the odds that the man whose fighters brought down the regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa, can bring peace, prosperity and even democracy to Syria?
Who's who in Trump's new administration
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/11/2024
» WASHINGTON — United States President-elect Donald Trump has started to choose the people who he wants to implement his "America first" policies on the border, trade, economy and more.
At least 20 killed in attack on miners in Pakistan
Reuters, Published on 11/10/2024
» QUETTA - Unidentified gunmen lined up miners at a small private coal mine in southwestern Pakistan and shot them on Friday, police and media said, killing at least 20 and wounding seven in rising violence in the restive region.
Driver for Chinese robbery gang arrested
Published on 17/08/2024
» A Vietnamese man has been arrested in Sa Kaeo for allegedly driving a car for a gang of Chinese men who robbed a compatriot of 70 million baht in digital money and other assets worth 10 million baht in Pathum Thani.
Chinese gang hunted for B70m robbery
Gary Boyle, Published on 15/08/2024
» Police are hunting for four Chinese nationals who broke into a luxury house in Pathum Thani and forced their Chinese victim to transfer $2 million (70 million baht) in digital money to them.