Police bust multimillion-dollar Australia-China baby formula crime ring
Six people have been charged after Australian authorities uncovered a multimillion-dollar crime syndicate stealing baby formula and vitamins from major retailers across Sydney for shipment to China, police said Monday. Four members of one family and two other men have been arrested and charged over ...
Rate of fatal accidents during twilight prompts police to urge drivers to turn on headlights earlier
Police caution drivers after a survey shows a higher risk of deadly vehicular collisions at dusk.
Two German terrorism suspects reportedly had list of 5,000 targets, including 100 politicians
German officials found lists with over 5,000 names of possible targets, including over 100 politicians, during the raids on the homes and workplaces of two terrorism suspects in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Aug. 28, Die Welt newspaper reported on Friday. The newspaper, citing ...
The number of reported cybercrimes rose to a record in the first half of 2017, the National Police Agency said Thursday, warning of a new scam in which virtual currency accounts are hacked for illicit money transfers. The police say they received 69,977 reports in ...
A Cambodian court on Tuesday charged opposition leader Kem Sokha with treason and espionage over an alleged conspiracy with unnamed foreigners, as strongman premier Hun Sen takes his assault against his political enemies into new territory. The case comes as opponents of Cambodia's longtime leader, ...
Filipino man held in alleged murder of Ibaraki student in 2004
The Ibaraki Prefectural Police on Saturday arrested a Filipino man suspected of killing a 21-year-old woman in 2004. Taken into custody was Gifu resident Lampano Jerico Mori, 35. The police also plan to place two other Filipino men suspected as accomplices on an international wanted ...
Vietnamese turns himself in after biting cop, escaping in handcuffs
A Vietnamese man is taken into custody in Saitama Prefecture after evading arrest during a traffic stop in Gunma, where he allegedly bit a police officer.
Defendant's strange actions in court lead to judge delaying issuing kidnap case ruling
The presiding judge in the trial of a man accused of the 2014 high-profile kidnapping of a girl who managed to escape her captor last year postponed handing down a ruling Tuesday after the 25-year-old suspect threw the hearing into confusion with his erratic ...
Many supporters of convicted India guru head home following deadly protests
Thousands of supporters of an Indian quasi-religious sect leader were leaving his headquarters in northern India on Sunday as authorities relaxed a curfew a day ahead of his sentencing for rape. They responded to an appeal by authorities to go home after thousands of followers ...
Indian guru convicted of raping followers; protesting mobs kill dozens
Rampaging mobs left at least 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured in a north Indian state on Friday after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers. Security forces patrolled the streets of the main trouble ...
More than a thousand join funeral procession for Philippine teen slain by drug cops
More than a thousand mourners attended a funeral procession in a northern Manila suburb on Saturday for a high school student whose killing a week earlier by anti-drug officers has caused rare public outrage about the country's war on drugs. Kian Loyd delos Santos was ...
U.S. President Donald Trump spared former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence Friday by pardoning the recent federal conviction stemming from his immigration patrols, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during his ...
