Singapore plans to introduce mandatory caning for convicted online scammers as part of sweeping new measures to tackle the country’s growing fraud epidemic. Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sim Ann, announced the proposal during a parliamentary session on Tuesday while presenting an amendment to the city-state’s criminal code for a second reading. Under…
A celebrity vegan chef, Anthony Milan Ross, has been found guilty of killing his wife and two children on Christmas Day in 2017, nearly eight years after the shocking crime. Ross, 53, shot his wife, Iris, 38, outside their apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, before locking himself inside the home and holding police in a six-hour…
Guinea-Bissau’s military authorities say they have foiled an alleged coup attempt aimed at subverting the country’s constitutional order ahead of next month’s general elections. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, several senior army officers were arrested for allegedly plotting to derail the electoral process. The arrests were made on Oct. 30, just hours…
The US government shutdown barreled towards its second month on Friday, and the pain is spreading fast — with federal workers broke, food aid vanishing, and millions of Americans caught in the crossfire. What started on October 1 as a Washington sideshow has morphed into a slow-motion implosion of public services and a growing economic…
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…