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Upstart gangsters shake Japan's yakuza
AFP, Published on 19/12/2025
» TOKYO - When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn't fancy joining Japan's old-school yakuza, with their tattoos, rigid hierarchy and codes of honour.
Italian fruit detective racing to save forgotten varieties
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» CITTà DI CASTELLO (ITALY) - Isabella Dalla Ragione hunts in abandoned gardens and orchards for forgotten fruits, preserving Italy's agricultural heritage and saving varieties which could help farmers withstand the vagaries of a changing climate.
Police search Australian bush for gunman after two officers killed
AFP, Published on 27/08/2025
» POREPUNKAH — Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a day after allegedly killing two officers and wounding a third.
Two police officers shot dead in Australia
Reuters, Published on 26/08/2025
» SYDNEY - A manhunt is under way in southern Australia for a heavily armed gunman who shot dead two police officers and wounded another on Tuesday as they tried to serve a warrant at a rural property in the state of Victoria.
Australian PM calls general election for May 3
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» CANBERRA - Australia will hold a general election on May 3, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday, locking in a showdown over climate action, nuclear power and a runaway housing market.
Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after ship hits tanker in North Sea
New York Times, Published on 12/03/2025
» LONDON — A 59-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter, the police in northern England said, after a container ship crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea a day earlier, leaving one crew member missing and presumed dead.
Police, art sleuth crack case of Brueghel stolen in Poland in 1974
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» THE HAGUE - With the help of a well-known art detective and arts magazine journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago.
Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» PARIS - On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi death camp on September 2, 1943.
£1.5m reward offered after 'brazen' London gem raid
AFP, Published on 01/01/2025
» LONDON - Victims of a £10 million ($12.5 million) London jewellery raid have offered rewards of up to £1.5 million to help recover the gems and catch the thief.
Bride, groom, spy: India's wedding detectives
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - From an anonymous office in a New Delhi mall, matrimonial detective Bhavna Paliwal runs the rule over prospective husbands and wives -- a booming industry in India, where younger generations are increasingly choosing love matches over arranged marriage.