Hanoi - Vietnamese police arrested a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs official for using forged foreign documents to defraud investors of more than 3 million dollars, local news reports said Wednesday.
Lt Col Ho Ngoc Ngai, head of the Hanoi Police Department's division for economic security investigations, said agents arrested Nguyen Thanh Ha, 50, director of the Thanh Ha company, on Monday.
Washington - A suspected pirate in the hijacking earlier this month of a US-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia will be tried as an adult, a federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday, according to broadcaster CNN.
The alleged pirate was taken Monday night to New York by US law enforcement agents to go before a judge about his alleged role in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama on April 8 in the Indian Ocean.
San Francisco - A medical student who allegedly targeted women advertising erotic services on Craigslist was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges of murder and kidnapping in a case that has captivated America.
Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni police arrested on Tuesday one of the kidnappers who took a Dutch couple hostage for two weeks in a mountainous area east of the capital Sana'a, the Interior Ministry reported.
The ministry said in a statement that the kidnapper was among four men listed on an arrest warrant issued by police after the release of the hostages.
Jan Hogendoorn, 54, and his wife Heleen Janszen, 49, were taken captive at gunpoint by armed tribesmen as they were driving in a southern Sana'a suburb on March 31. They were released unharmed on April 13.
London - A London taxi driver who drugged and sexually assaulted at least a dozen of his female passengers was Tuesday given an indefinite jail sentence but will have to serve at least eight years.
Croydon Crown Court sentenced John Worboys, 51, after convicting him of one rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and
12 drugging charges committed in the London area between July, 2007 and February, 2008.
Nairobi - At least 24 people have been killed in clashes between members of the public and the banned Mungiki sect in Central Kenya, police said Tuesday.
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the German Press Agency dpa that fighting broke out on Monday evening in and around the town of Karatina, around 100 kilometres north of the capital Nairobi.
The police arrested 34 people on Tuesday night then discovered the bodies early Tuesday morning, Kiraithe said.
It was not clear how many of the dead were members of the banned sect and how many were members of the public.
Hanoi - Vietnamese police arrested a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs official for using forged foreign documents to defraud investors of more than 3 million dollars, local news reports said Wednesday.
Washington - A suspected pirate in the hijacking earlier this month of a US-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia will be tried as an adult, a federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday, according to broadcaster CNN.
San Francisco - A medical student who allegedly targeted women advertising erotic services on Craigslist was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges of murder and kidnapping in a case that has captivated America.
Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni police arrested on Tuesday one of the kidnappers who took a Dutch couple hostage for two weeks in a mountainous area east of the capital Sana'a, the Interior Ministry reported.
London - A London taxi driver who drugged and sexually assaulted at least a dozen of his female passengers was Tuesday given an indefinite jail sentence but will have to serve at least eight years.
Nairobi - At least 24 people have been killed in clashes between members of the public and the banned Mungiki sect in Central Kenya, police said Tuesday.
