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SINGAPORE (AFP) – A Singapore judge sentenced a teenager to 16 years in jail on Friday for killing a schoolmate with an axe in a crime that shocked the city-state in 2021. The killing at a state secondary school was a rare incident in a country that is known for its tough approach to law and order, which includes corporal and capital punishment, and has one of the world’s lowest crime rates. The accused, who […]
SYDNEY, Nov 29, 2023 (AFP) – An Australian police officer was charged with manslaughter Wednesday, after allegedly tasering a 95-year-old great-grandmother who later died in hospital. Dementia patient Clare Nowland died in May this year, following a nursing home confrontation with police that shocked Australians and made international headlines. She was allegedly shot with an electric stun gun as she slowly approached the officer with the assistance of her walking frame. Police said she was […]
LAMEZIA TERME, Italy, Nov 20, 2023 (AFP) – The massive historic trial concluding Monday targets the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, which has surpassed Sicily’s better-known Cosa Nostra to become Italy’s wealthiest and most powerful criminal organisation. Based in the southern region of Calabria, the ‘Ndrangheta has developed a near-monopoly on the European cocaine trade and has tentacles across the globe. Here are five things to know about the group: – Origins – The ‘Ndrangheta is rooted in […]
LAMEZIA TERME, Italy, Nov 20, 2023 (AFP) – An Italian court on Monday convicted and sentenced around 200 mobsters and their white-collar helpers, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria’s notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia. For over an hour and a half, the president of the court in southern Vibo Valentia, Brigida Cavasino, read out the names of the guilty and their sentences, which ranged from 30 years to a few months, as defendants […]
BET SHEMESH, Israel, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli police said Tuesday they were investigating “several cases” of alleged sexual violence against women by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks, citing “multiple witnesses” to incidents of rape. Since the Hamas attack, police have been gathering evidence about allegations of sexual violence from witnesses, surveillance footage and the interrogations of Palestinian militants arrested in the aftermath. “We have no living victims who said ‘we have […]
SEOUL, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Nineteen South Koreans who were held captive in Myanmar have been rescued, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, with a source from Myanmar’s main airport confirming the victims were flying home. South Korea has been working on its citizens’ release since being notified in early October that they had been detained by an unknown “illegal company” in Tachileik, which is situated in Myanmar’s Shan state near the border with Thailand. […]
BOGOTÁ, Nov 11, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Colombia have detained four people suspected in the kidnapping of the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, who was held hostage for nearly two weeks by members of the ELN guerilla group, officials said Saturday. Luis Manuel Diaz was freed Thursday, 12 days after being abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in the town of Barrancas near the Venezuelan border. “We have detained […]
BERLIN, Nov 8, 2023 (AFP) – German police on Wednesday evacuated students from a school in Hamburg over a “threat” after reports that two individuals with a firearm were in the building. “There are currently indications of a threat situation at the Blankenese high school. Police forces are already there and carrying out the first measures,” said Hamburg police on X, formerly known as Twitter. A spokesman said two people, who were “possibly youths”, had […]
HAMBURG, Nov 5, 2023 (AFP) – An armed father who took his four-year-old daughter hostage, forcing the suspension of flights at Hamburg airport, gave himself up “without resistance” on Sunday after hours of negotiations, German police said. The 35-year-old man had barricaded himself and the child in his car at the foot of a Turkish Airlines plane on Saturday evening, demanding to be allowed on board after a custody dispute with the mother. He had […]
By Sharon MARRIS SYDNEY, Nov 2, 2023 (AFP) – Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life. The arrest of Erin Patterson, 49, is the latest twist in a saga that has gripped the nation and thrust the spotlight on the small rural town of Leongatha, 110 kilometres (70 miles) southeast of Melbourne. Detective Inspector […]
TOKYO, Nov 1, 2023 (AFP) – Japanese police on Wednesday were probing the motives of an 86-year-old who took two women hostage in a post office after reportedly first setting his home on fire and shooting into a hospital. Two people were wounded at the hospital in Saitama, outside Tokyo, while the two hostages were unharmed after an eight-hour ordeal at the hands of the irate and armed pensioner on Tuesday. Media reports said Tsuneo […]
By Tomohiro OSAKI SAITAMA, Japan, Oct 31, 2023 (AFP) – Japanese police detained a reportedly 86-year-old man who held several people hostage in a post office after apparently shooting into a hospital and injuring two people on Tuesday. After a standoff lasting eight hours in Warabi, outside Tokyo, police said they finally detained the man after 10 pm (1300 GMT) after surrounding the three-storey building. “The man has been detained. Details will come later,” a […]
