Police in Bangkok have arrested eight Nigerian men and a Thai woman after disguising themselves as construction workers during a late-night drug bust in the city’s Nana area. The operation took place around midnight on Sukhumvit 11 Road in Watthana district following complaints from residents and tourists about drug peddlers and pickpockets harassing people in…
An NYPD detective and loving mom of three died a week after receiving a butt lift and liposuction procedure in Colombia — prompting her grieving husband to request an investigation into her sudden death, according to sources and reports. Det. Alicia Stone, 40, was rushed to Fundación Valle del Lili Hospital in Cali after she…
Former Mali prime minister Moussa Mara will spend one year in prison after a Bamako court sentenced him Monday following a social media post supporting political prisoners. His punishment for “undermining the credibility of the state and opposing legitimate authority” additionally includes a one-year suspended sentence. Mara, who was prime minister for eight months from…
A shocking tragedy has struck a small Russian community after a newborn baby was killed when her five-year-old sister allegedly threw her out of a fourth-floor window. The horrifying incident happened in Vasilyevo village, Tatarstan, while the children’s mother was reportedly away visiting a friend. Eyewitnesses said they heard a child screaming from the apartment…
A former vice president who rose to the presidency after the death of predecessor John Pombe Magufuli, Samia Suluhu Hassan initially gave indications that she would relax the government’s repressive tactics against opposition leaders, civic groups, journalists and others. But as Hassan seeks her first properly elected term in Oct. 29 elections, critics say she…
An American missionary was kidnapped in Niger’s capital Niamey, three security sources said on Wednesday. The missionary, who is a pilot for the evangelical missionary agency Serving in Mission, was seized by three unidentified men as he headed to the airport on Tuesday night in Niger’s Plateau neighbourhood, a diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity…
A woman in South Korea is facing criminal charges after she allegedly set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, a blaze that led to the death of her neighbour, according to reports by PEOPLE and the BBC. According to PEOPLE, which reported the incident on Wednesday,…
An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced opposition figure, Fethi Ghares, to two years in prison over a Facebook post judged to have insulted President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, his lawyer told AFP. Ghares, a secular leftist opposition figure, was sentenced “to two years in prison for remarks concerning the president”, lawyer Abdelghani Badi said. He said…
An exclusive poll for Sky News has revealed deep divisions within the Conservative Party over Kemi Badenoch’s leadership, with half of all Tory members (50%) saying she should not lead the party into the next general election. The survey found that only 46% of members want Badenoch to remain in place, while 49% believe she…
A Turkish-born 51-year-old man, Hamit Coskun, who was fined for burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London, has won his appeal against conviction, in a case hailed as a landmark victory for free speech in the United Kingdom. Coskun was originally found guilty in June at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of…