Tag: crime

Kim Jong-Nam murder suspects visit airport crime scene

by M Jegathesan  Agence France-Presse SEPANG, Malaysia (AFP) —Two women on trial for murdering the North Korean leader’s half-brother have visited the Malaysian airport where they allegedly poisoned him, escorted by huge numbers of heavily armed police on Tuesday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, wearing bulletproof vests, were brought to Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s budget terminal along with the judge in the case, defense lawyers and prosecutors. About 200 police, many armed with […]

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Las Vegas killer was high roller, Valium user: CNN

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was a compulsive player of video poker who took the anxiety drug Valium, CNN reported on Monday. The report gave new details about the background of the 64-year-old who, on October 1, gunned down 58 people and wounded almost 500 for reasons which investigators still have not been able to fathom. Paddock said in a 2013 court deposition that he was “the biggest video poker player in […]

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Philippines: NY ‘plotter’ was allegedly doctor to pro-IS gunmen

MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipino doctor wanted over a foiled jihadist plot targeting New York’s subway and Times Square previously treated pro-Islamic State (IS) group militants in the mountains of southern Philippines, the military said on Monday. Russell Salic, 37, had links to the Maute group, which since May had been occupying parts of the Philippines’ most important Islamic city of Marawi in a bid to establish an IS caliphate in Southeast Asia, Philippine […]

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Kim Jong-Nam murder trial visits lab to view tainted clothes

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia (AFP) — The trial of two women accused of murdering the North Korean leader’s half-brother moved Monday to a high-security Malaysian laboratory to view clothing worn by the defendants and contaminated by a nerve agent. The visit to the government lab near Kuala Lumpur came after a chemist last week testified there were traces of VX on the women’s clothes. Raja Subramaniam’s testimony was the first evidence directly linking the women to the poison […]

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Las Vegas shooter booked Chicago hotel during Lollapalooza

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had booked a hotel room in Chicago during the hugely-popular Lollapalooza music festival, it emerged Thursday, raising the prospect he had been planning a large-scale attack for months. The Blackstone hotel, with rooms facing a downtown city park where the festival was held, said a man of the same name had a reservation there in August — just as hundreds of thousands were attending the four-day outdoor concert […]

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Trump says US ‘a nation in mourning’ on somber Las Vegas visit

by Cyril Julien Agence France-Presse LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump declared the United States “a nation in mourning” Wednesday, as he traveled to Las Vegas to meet survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Eulogizing parents and spouses who “used their own bodies to protect their loved ones,” from a ballistic onslaught that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured, Trump visited with survivors and first responders. Trump toured […]

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Vegas shooter’s ‘companion an Australian granny’

  SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock’s “regular companion” was an Australian woman who moved to the United States 20 years ago to work on the casino strip, the government confirmed Tuesday. Marilou Danley, 62, was initially said to be a “person of interest” but has since been cleared of any involvement in the shocking shooting that left 59 dead and more than 500 injured. American authorities said she was out of […]

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OPINION: Crime is common, logic is rare

Disclaimer: The views of the writer do not represent the views of the network as a whole.   By Mendy Amandoron Young Voices Speak contributor   “Crime is common, logic is rare,” a famous line from the legendary fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. This line metaphorically embodies the society we’re living in today. Crimes, poverty, and extreme devastation –  the world has been facing these for the last decade. The Philippines is no exception. The numerous casualties […]

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Months after being shot, US lawmaker Scalise back in Congress

 WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican US lawmaker Steve Scalise made a spirited return to Congress Thursday for the first time since being gravely wounded in a mass shooting at a June baseball practice. A beaming Scalise drew loud cheers, fist bumps, and multiple prolonged standing ovations from colleagues when he walked using crutches onto the floor of the House of Representatives and addressed the chamber, three and a half months after he nearly died in an attack […]

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Second Indian journalist killed in one month

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A reporter covering political unrest in India’s northeast was beaten to death during violent clashes, officials said Thursday, two weeks after the high-profile murder of another prominent journalist. Shantanu Bhowmick was set upon with sticks as he reported on violence Wednesday between warring political factions and police outside Agartala, the capital of remote Tripura state. State police superintendent Abhijit Saptarshi said more than a dozen officers were also injured in […]

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Guatemala hospital shooting kills 2 children, 5 adults

GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) — Seven people including two children were killed and 12 injured in a gang shooting in a hospital in Guatemala on Wednesday, officials said. Police said gunmen burst into the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City to rescue a jailed gang member who had been transferred there for a medical appointment. The shooters were members of the Salvatrucha gang, one of the most notorious bands terrorizing Central America. The attackers arrived in a car and […]

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President Duterte threatens to end peace talks after NPA attack on PSG convoy

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to end peace talks with communist rebels on Wednesday, hours after suspected guerrillas wounded five members of the two-vehicle Presidential Security Group (PSG) convoy in an ambush along a national highway in North Cotabato. Aides said Duterte, 72, was not in the convoy when gunmen opened fire on two Presidential Security Group vehicles along a highway on the main southern island of Mindanao, where martial law is in effect. […]

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