According to stuff.co.nz, an expatriate New Zealander is feared dead after he was abducted at gunpoint on a bridge near the border of Victoria and South Australia. Gordon Tearonui Hamm was dragged from a car driven by a woman friend and assaulted by two men after the car was brought to a halt by two four wheel drive vehicles in what police describe as an “orchestrated” kidnapping. Read article
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Stuff.co.nz reports that a British journalist working for Bloomberg News in Sudan says security agents detained and beat him for covering the country’s biggest anti-government protest in years. Sudan’s information ministry could not be reached for comment, but a senior official in the ruling party condemned the security action as ”unacceptable”. Read article
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3news.co.nz reports that a car crashed into the main gate of the US Embassy in Canberra last night but caused little damage. Police in the capital said they arrested the driver and were trying to determine whether the act was intentional. Roads around the embassy were closed as police, ambulance and firefighters swarmed the scene. […]
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Fars News Agency reports that Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was beaten and detained by police near the Taksim Square in Istanbul. Babchenko said that he was photographing empty police cars when people in police uniform run up to him, demanded that he must stop photographing and took him by the arms. “I tried to shake […]
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Tribune242.com reports that the interruption of US visa services because of the assault and robbery of the American Embassy’s vice consul has sent “shock-waves” through the Bahamas, the opposition FNM said. Non-immigrant visa services were suspended yesterday following the attack on the 74-year-old diplomat, who police sources identified as Kathleen Cayer. She was attacked as […]
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Allafrica.com reports that Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Kenyan authorities should immediately open an independent public investigation, and the United Nations refugee agency – which has not […]
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Outlookindia.com reports that a 27-year-old Indian-origin man has been injured severely in a horrific hit-and-run incident in Melbourne after the alleged attacker tried to kill him three times. Amandeep Singh was hit by a car when he was taking a walk on Chandler Road, Noble Park, here yesterday, local media reported. After being hit the […]
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Abs-cbnnews.com reports three Filipinos are confirmed to have been attacked in Taiwan, amid continuing tension between Manila and Taipei over the death of a Taiwanese fisherman. “Tatlo ang officially confirmed,” said Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO). Perez, however, said that no one was seriously hurt from the incidents. Read […]
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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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According to thenational.ae, “Two men who kidnapped and raped a woman after her drink was spiked at a Dubai nightclub had their ten-year jail terms upheld by the Appeals Court today. The woman, from the UK, became disoriented after drinking at the Rock Bottom Cafe in the Regent Palace Hotel in Bur Dubai on July […]
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