LONDON – British officials report an increase in human trafficking into Britain, with many victims arriving from Nigeria and being forced into domestic slavery or prostitution. Official figures show more than 2,000 suspected trafficking victims were reported to authorities in 2014 including 244 from Nigeria. This represents a 31 percent …
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MUMBAI, India – Indian police say eight more people have died in Mumbai from drinking tainted liquor, raising the death toll to 92 in the worst such incident in more than a decade. Constable Sudhir Butere says eight men died overnight after drinking the cheap liquor in Malvani, in Mumbai’s …
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CAIRO – Journalists face unprecedented threats in President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s Egypt, a watchdog group said Thursday, with the highest number behind bars since it began keeping records in 1990. In a report detailing the incarceration of 18 Egyptians, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said most were accused of …
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MADRID – Spanish police say they seized more than 3 tons of cocaine and broke up a major international drug trafficking gang whose leader lived in luxury in Madrid, posing as a soccer talent scout. The National Police said the leader, who was not identified, employed a network of Serbian …
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CAIRO – The latest on the aftermath of a coordinated militant assault on Egyptian security forces in the restive northern Sinai that killed dozens of troops and set off the bloodiest fighting in the peninsula in decades (all times local). Noon Egyptian security officials say gunmen shot and killed a …
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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. children’s agency says children are suffering as a result of instability and election-related violence in Burundi including three killed in the last five days and dozens forced to flee from school. UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac said one child died as a result of a grenade …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – More than 200 forest fires are burning across western Canada, causing a heavy gray haze to settle over the Pacific coast and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Authorities issued air quality advisories across British Columbia on Monday as an unrelenting heat wave that began …
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LISBON, Portugal – Another former senior member of Portugal’s Socialist Party is the latest ex-government official to be arrested in a corruption investigation that has seen a former prime minister held in prison. The attorney general’s office said Armando Vara, a deputy minister in two Socialist governments between 1995-99, was …
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea on Wednesday selected a Chinese-led consortium as a preferred bidder to salvage a ferry that sunk and killed more than 300 people in April last year in one of the country’s deadliest disasters in decades. South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said it …
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SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics reported Thursday a fifth straight quarterly profit drop as the Galaxy S6 series of smartphones failed to reverse its declining fortune in the smartphone industry. Samsung’s April-June net income was 5.8 trillion won ($5 billion), down 8 percent from 6.3 trillion won a year …
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