Dakar, Senegal (AFP): The authorities in Mali have begun a crackdown on hookah smoking after giving a grace period to shisha bars to adjust to a ban. The country’s anti-drug agency says it has carried out dozens of arrests in the capital Bamako and seized water pipes after the six-month moratorium expired. Bars where small […]
Jakarta, Indonesia — AFP One of Indonesia’s most senior police officers has been sentenced to death over the murder of his bodyguard. Ferdy Sambo, a two-star general and former head of internal affairs for the national police, was named as a suspect after his bodyguard was found dead at Sambo’s home in July, in a […]
LONDON (AA) – British police has arrested three protesters following a clash near a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwestern England. Merseyside police said earlier that officers are “dealing with two groups of protesters” in Prescot as they were “facilitating an initially peaceful protest and counter protest”...
ANKARA (AA) – The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said probes had found the Assad regime responsible for a 2018 chlorine attack on Douma city which left 43 people dead. A report released by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that an Assad regime [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Health Organization said Tuesday that one of its doctors had been abducted in Mali, adding that the motivation behind an attack on his car was unclear. “We deplore the abduction of WHO colleague Dr Mahamadou Diawara, who was taken by unidentified assailants from his car on January 23, in the […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Duax Ngakuru, an alleged crime kingpin wanted for leading one of Australia’s drug gangs, has been arrested in Istanbul, Turkish authorities have confirmed. Turkish police teams raided a villa in the Sariyer district, where Ngakuru, the ringleader of the Comanchero motorcycle club, was caught on January 13. After the...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A Mozambican national, accused of orchestrating kidnappings for ransom in his home country, has been arrested in South Africa, according to police sources. Esmael Malude Ramos Nangy, 50, who was wanted for kidnapping cases in Mozambique was arrested by a multidisciplinary security team, including Interpol, over the we...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than one dozen civilians were killed late Monday by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to media reports. It attacked herders guarding cattle in a pasture near the of village Airamne in Borno state, said reports. Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and their cattle were taken away. Boko [&helli...
PARIS (AA) – A 69-year-old French man who is suspected of shooting three people dead in Paris has confessed to having an extreme hatred of foreigners, local media outlets said Sunday, a day after he was transferred to a police psychiatric unit for evaluation. The man was later discharged from the unit and retaken into […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Wednesday for a restructured European Parliament amid an ongoing corruption case involving a high-ranking European parliamentarian. “The swamp should be drained,” Orban told reporters at an annual press conference, adding that Hungarians want the parliament to consi...
