Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday the seizure of more than 12 million amphetamine pills hidden in a shipment of pomegranate fruit, amid a crackdown on the widely used captagon drug. Authorities thwarted “an attempt to smuggle 12,729,000 tablets of amphetamine” concealed in the shipment passing through th...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo police confiscated cryptocurrency machines Friday in an operation in a northern municipality where Serbs make up the majority of the population. Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli said 174 illegal devices were confiscated. “Failure to pay electricity bills encourages such illegal activities. Therefore, Serb...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Three defendants accused of repeatedly raping a Moroccan girl pleaded not guilty Thursday as the case went to appeal, after their light sentences shocked the country. The victim was only 11 when she was “repeatedly raped” and became pregnant, according to rights groups in the North African kingdom. The legal t...
NEW YORK (AA) – An imam in the US state of New Jersey was stabbed during morning prayer on Sunday. Sayed El-Nakib, imam of the Omar Mosque in Paterson, was stabbed by an attacker who hid in the congregation. The attacker, Serif Zorba, 32, was caught on the mosque’s security camera jumping over the congregation […]
BERLIN (AA) – German authorities were warned about the mental health of the gunman who shot and killed 7 people in Hamburg, police confirmed on Friday. Hamburg police chief Ralf Martin Meyer said they received an anonymous letter in January, which said Philipp F. could be suffering from mental problems, and suggested that his weapons [&h...
BERLIN (AA) – Eight people were killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness center in Germany, authorities said on Friday. The shooter, identified as 35-year-old Philipp F., fired at people during a worship service in the northern city of Hamburg on Thursday evening. The gunman was a former member of the religious community, and [&...
Paris, France (AFP): An Iranian court on Tuesday sentenced to death on terror charges an Iranian-German national who supporters say was abducted in the Gulf and forcibly returned to Iran for a show trial. The Tehran Revolutionary Court convicted Jamshid Sharmahd in connection with the deadly bombing of a mosque in 2008, the judiciary’s M...
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”...
