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Trial begins in Paris over 2016 gunpoint robbery of Kim Kardashian
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» PARIS - Ten suspects go on trial in Paris on Monday over the 2016 robbery of the US celebrity Kim Kardashian, which saw some US$10 million worth of jewellery stolen from the reality TV star and influencer.
Hong Kong activist seeks asylum in UK
AFP, Published on 29/12/2023
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung said on Friday he had fled to Britain because he could no longer endure living in fear, with authorities pressuring him to become a paid informant while banning him from working.
Cyber-scam industry booms in plain sight in Cambodia
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times, Published on 29/08/2023
» PHNOM PHEN: Around the world, reports of cyber-scam schemes targeting unsuspecting victims online have proliferated rapidly. Southeast Asia has become a centre of gravity for those criminal syndicates, often in remote and war-torn corners. But in Cambodia, the scam industry has been flourishing well within the reach of officials.
'No woman feels safe': sexual violence rampant in Sudan war
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» CAIRO - Zeinab was fleeing war-torn Sudan's capital to seek safety when she found herself pinned to the ground, a rifle to her chest, as a paramilitary fighter raped her.
Notorious FBI double-agent Robert Hanssen dead
AFP, Published on 06/06/2023
» WASHINGTON - Robert Hanssen, the notorious FBI double agent who secretly fed Russia some of America's deepest secrets in the 1980s and 1990s, died in a top-security prison Monday, prison officials said.
French dockers killed, kidnapped and corrupted by drugs mafia
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» LE HAVRE, France: They could be scenes straight from gangster movies, except all happened for real in the French port of Le Havre over the past year.
China trying to 'undermine' US judicial system: Justice chief
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» WASHINGTON: Top US justice officials accused the Chinese government Monday of an unrelenting campaign by intelligence operatives to subvert the American justice system and steal commercial secrets.
Iran brands US claim of assassination plot 'fiction'
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» TEHRAN - Iran dismissed as "fiction" Thursday US allegations it had plotted to kill former White House national security adviser John Bolton in retaliation for the assassination of one of its top commanders.
Iraqi arrested in plot to kill ex-president Bush
AFP, Published on 25/05/2022
» WASHINGTON - An Iraqi man who sought political asylum in the United States plotted to kill former president George W. Bush, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Dead dolphins, extortion, bullets in Italy's mafia 'maxi-trial'
AFP, Published on 28/11/2021
» LAMEZIA TERME, Italy: A dead dolphin on a doormat and windows smashed with sledgehammers. Weapons stored in cemetery chapels. Bribes to judges for acquittals, and bogus medical certificates letting convicted killers dodge prison.