Iol.co.za reports that long gone are the days when many South Africans had to carry pass books, but on Tuesday about 80 foreigners, including an Australian tourist, were detained for not having their documents on them. About 20 people from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Congo stood outside the Cape Town police station waiting for friends and relatives to be released. Read article
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According to irishtimes.com, a British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said yesterday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his five-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a […]
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Nytimes.com reports that Brazilian police have arrested a businessman listed by the United States as a member of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group, under suspicion of operating a fraudulent scheme in the clothing industry — a far cry from the arms, drugs, explosives and counterfeit bills that American officials have suspected him of trafficking […]
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Independent.co.uk reports that a British tourist has been jailed for eight years for the manslaughter of a British soldier on Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence said. David Lee Collins, 19, from Manchester, was stabbed to death after a fight broke out in a nightclub in the popular resort of Ayia Napa last November. Mohammed Abdulkadir […]
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Yahoo 7 News reports that an Australian man held in Dubai on corruption charges for four years has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined $25 million. Matthew Joyce was charged with fraud over a property deal gone sour in Dubai. His former business partner, Marcus Lee, was acquitted and will be allowed […]
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Xinhuanet.con reports that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to safeguard the health and legitimate rights and interests of a number of Chinese fisherman reportedly detained in the country. According to media reports, private fishing boat “Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222” from Dalian City in […]
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As covered by www.emirates247.com, “After two French tourists complained that they had been sexually molested by a foreign guesthouse operator at his guest house in Sri Lanka on Friday, ‘Colombo Gazette’ on Saturday reported that he has been arrested by police. SSP Jayantha Wickramasinghe said 44-year old Oliver Sage, who manages the “French Villa”, a […]
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As covered by gulfnews.com, “Police in Kuwait have arrested an expatriate for growing marijuana in a garden. According to reports in the capital, Kuwait City, the Bangladeshi suspect had planted the marijuana in the middle of similar-looking plants in the garden he was supposed to look after. The police arrested him after they acted on […]
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According to emirates247.com, “The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB), with police assistance, has arrested a Sri Lankan expatriate living in Saudi Arabia, for beating fellow nationals seeking work in the Gulf kingdom as housemaids, shortly after his arrival home on annual vacation, the ‘Colombo Gazette’ reported on Sunday. When the amateur footage of the […]
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As covered by middle-east-online.com, “A Qatari court has sentenced a Muslim barber from an unknown Asian country to 40 lashes over consuming alcohol in the Gulf state, a local daily reported on Monday. The man was arrested following a complaint by another who accused him of harassing his domestic worker by throwing at her a […]
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