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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Two waiters at a Mexico City bar will face homicide and robbery charges in the beating death of Malcolm X’s grandson Malcolm Shabazz, authorities said Monday. Prosecutors said police are seeking at least two other people believed to have participated in the attack on ...
A Twitter account run by the Crime Prevention Section of the Metropolitan Police Department is proving popular for the officers’ personal comments and had attracted more than 48,000 followers as of Monday. The section opened the account on the free microblogging service last November ...
Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, received an urgent message about 6:25 p.m. Saturday saying someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer’s home in Bethesda. Officers streamed toward the CNN host’s residence near Congressional Country Club. They set up a perimeter. But a dispatch supervisor ...
Organized crime groups dealing in fake goods, drugs, human trafficking and illicit wildlife trade earn nearly $90 billion annually in East Asia and the Pacific, a U.N. report showed Tuesday. “Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia and the Pacific: A Threat Assessment” is the ...
The former naval chief of Guinea-Bissau was ordered detained in New York on Friday following his arrest on charges that he was part of an international cocaine trafficking plot, officials said. A spokesman for the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office said Jose Americo Bubo Na ...
If you’re ever minded to dance the night away to trance music, or even old-fashioned rock, you may have a tough time finding a venue in Japan these days. In fact, you may end up waltzing away hours inside a police station, peeing into ...
The Gunma Prefectural Police said they will work with NTT Corp. to develop a smartphone application that alerts users about areas where suspicious people have been reported. The police published about 1,200 pieces of information related to suspicious persons on its website last year ...
Many Fukushima police officers struggled with fears of death and thought about fleeing when they were evacuating citizens from areas close to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant during the catastrophe that started in March 2011, according to a survey. ...
The National Police Agency said Thursday it will clamp down on delinquents, including former biker gang members, whose behavior is threatening but not on par with the underworld. Through crimes such as fraud, these criminals collect “almost as much money as mob syndicates,” said ...
Police on the Pacific island of Guam have beefed up patrols in the wake of the Feb. 12 rampage by a 21-year-old local man at a key tourist spot that left three Japanese tourists dead and 11 other people wounded. Guam police Chief Fred ...
Describing what it called “the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades,” the U.S. organization Human Rights Watch issued a new report Wednesday with grim implications for the thousands of Mexican civilians who have gone missing in the country’s shadowy ...
The National Police Agency said Thursday it will promote communications with ethical hackers to better combat cybercrimes and cyber-attacks. The agency hopes the move will help it collect more information on such crimes, including releases of viruses designed to remotely control infected computers. This ...