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A jailbreak at a prison in northern Haiti led to a lockdown on the streets of the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, as authorities tried to recapture escapees with a pair still at large, police said Saturday. Six fugitives had been apprehended since the Friday night escape. Four others were shot dead. Gang violence beginning at the end of February — plunging impoverished and politically unstable Haiti deeper into chaos — has led to more than […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Two brothers pulled off a sweet escape from a leopard in India by throwing a birthday cake at the animal as it chased them while they rode a motorbike, officials said Thursday. “Your first instinct when you sense danger is to do whatever you can to save yourself. That’s what they did,” a forest official told AFP. “They had a cake with them and they threw it at the […]
by Daniel SILVA MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Spain’s former king Juan Carlos, who went into exile this month in the face of graft allegations, is in the United Arab Emirates, the royal palace said Monday, ending the mystery over his whereabouts. The 82-year-old, who has long had warm relations with the Gulf monarchies, “traveled to the United Arab Emirates on August 3 and he remains there,” a spokesman said without giving further details. In a […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – The French government pointed to possible security failings on Monday after a notorious gangster used a helicopter to stage his second brazen jailbreak of a crime career inspired by films such as “Scarface”. The latest escape of Redoine Faid, who was serving a 25-year sentence for an armed robbery in which a policewoman was killed, has left French authorities red-faced. Faid was sprung from a prison in Paris by two accomplices […]
(Eagle News) –The Philippine National Police on Monday, May 28, said it was building cases against those who helped Ozamiz City Councilor Ricardo Parojinog leave the country for Taiwan. “Kailangan namin makasuhan ‘yung mga nag-coddle at nag-protect sa kanya, that’s why we have case build-up on people na na-identify,” Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Director Roel Obusan said in a press conference, without revealing identities. Obusan made the statement after the police found Parojinog […]
(Eagle News)–One out of three Filipino families escaped poverty, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. The figure translates to 30 percent of families, of which 18 percent, according to the First Quarter 2018 survey, used to be poor five or more years ago, and 12 percent used to be poor one to four years ago. According to the pollster, the number of “newly non-poor” was two points lower than the record-high 14 percent newly […]
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) – Four foreign and three local inmates escaped from Kerobokan prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali using a tunnel, the head of the prison said on Monday (June 19) and a search has been launched to find them. Kerobokan Prison head Tony Nainggolan named the four foreigners as Australian Shaun Edward Davidson, Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov, Indian Sayed Muhammad and Malaysian Tee Kok King and said they escaped through a 12m […]
TENNESSEE, United States (Reuters) – Two inmates accused of shooting to death a pair of armed guards during an escape from a prison bus in Georgia were captured on Thursday (June 15) in Tennessee, Georgia officials said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed the capture of Donnie Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, in a statement on Twitter but provided no further information. The inmates were caught following a car chase in Tennessee, one state […]
NEW MEXICO, United States (Reuters) — Hundreds of people have evacuated to escape a wildfire in a blaze in rural New Mexico as hot weather feeds the flames, raising health concerns in other regions, officials said on Thursday (June 16). The so-called Dog Head Fire which broke out on Wednesday about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of the town of Tajique has forced evacuations and grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 hectares). Tajique is […]
(Reuters) Police using dogs and air support converged on a town in western New York state on Saturday (June 20) to investigate a possible sighting of two convicted murderers who escaped a maximum-security prison two weeks ago, a police spokesman said. New York State police shut off roads and searched cars near the town of Friendship close to the border with Pennsylvania, as police helicopters flew patrols overhead. Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, […]
