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Safety for hire: security firms cash in on World Cup in Mexico
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» MEXICO CITY - Gunshots rang out in a Mexico City warehouse as Leopoldo Cerdeira emptied a cartridge into a car door propped up on a stand.
Ex-Philippine leader Duterte bound for Hague over ICC drug war case
AFP, Published on 12/03/2025
» MANILA — Lawyers for former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who is bound for The Hague following his arrest on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly crackdown on drugs, filed a petition Wednesday demanding he be sent back to Manila.
Contract killings come cheap in South Africa
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» JOHANNESBURG - Getting rid of an insufferable husband comes relatively cheap in South Africa, while political hits are more expensive.
Gunmen kill Eswatini opposition politician: spokesman
AFP, Published on 22/01/2023
» MANZINI (ESWATINI) - Gunmen in Eswatini killed a prominent opposition politician and human rights lawyer at his home, a spokesman told AFP on Sunday, hours after the country's absolute monarch challenged activists opposed to his rule.
Hitmen brothers handed 40 years for Maltese journalist murder
AFP, Published on 15/10/2022
» VALLETTA - Two hitmen brothers were each sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday for killing a prominent journalist in Malta five years ago, an assassination that sparked an international outcry.
Lake Mead mob murder: Gun found near site of body in barrel
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - US detectives investigating a possible decades-old mob murder said Thursday they had found a gun near the spot on an evaporating Las Vegas lake bed where a body inside a barrel was discovered.
Duterte unlikely to face court over Philippines drug war killings
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte often incited violence and ordered police to shoot dead suspects in a drug war that has killed thousands. But analysts say he is unlikely to face charges after he steps down Thursday.
Gambian to face trial in Germany over AFP reporter murder
AFP, Published on 25/04/2022
» CELLE (GERMANY) - The trial begins in Germany on Monday of a Gambian man accused of being part of a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist.
Myanmar junta says had 'nothing to do' with UN envoy plot
AFP, Published on 10/08/2021
» Myanmar's junta had "nothing to do" with an alleged plot to attack the country's ambassador to the UN, who has defied the military and backed the pro-democracy movement, state media said Tuesday.
Maltese state responsible for journalist's assassination
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» ROME - Malta should take responsibility for the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia as it created "an atmosphere of impunity" that risked her life, a public inquiry concluded.