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Dubai: British tourist faces year in prison for swearing/blaspheming

A British tourist is facing jail in Dubai for up to a year – for swearing and blasphemy. Andrew Graham, 40, reportedly called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a ‘terrorist’ in a heated row with salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. Read article

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Bangkok cabdriver rapes female passenger three months after jail release for sexual assault

A Bangkok cabdriver previously convicted of a sexual assault was arrested for allegedly raping a female passenger on Monday, a police said at a press conference late on Monday night. Klongton police superintendent Pol Colonel Sittipab Baiprasert said a friend of the 26-year-old victim alerted police at 7.15pm that the woman was being raped in […]

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Indonesia: German tourist was shot three times in a random attack in Papua

A German tourist was shot three times while walking along a beach in seemingly random attack in Jayapura, Papua on Tuesday, National Police said. Dietmar Pieper, 55, was visiting Base G beach with his wife Eva Medina, 55, when an unidentified assailant opened fire at 11:30 a.m. and then sped off in a Toyota Avanza […]

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New York: Two California women reportedly physically assaulted and robbed in Niagara Falls

According to the Niagara Falls, NY-based Niagara Gazette, two California women were reportedly physically assaulted and robbed during the early morning hours of Saturday (May 26). The incident occurred in a parking lot in the 100 block of Niagara Street. The incident occurred when two unidentified suspects approached the women while they were at their […]

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Tourist assaulted robbed San Francisco

A tourist from Milwaukee was walking on Gateway Boulevard Tuesday morning when two men assaulted him, robbed him and took off on bicycles, police said. The men approached the tourist at 11:36 a.m. and demanded money, according to police. They tried to take his wallet from his pocket, and when he resisted, they cut him […]

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Tokyo High Court upheld life sentence for the suspect who raped and killed young British teacher

Earlier today (April 11), the Tokyo High Court upheld the life sentence of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32, a Japanese national who raped and killed Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, a young British teacher who taught Ichihashi English in 2007, and later buried her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub. When Ms. Hawker disappeared, leads eventually led police […]

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Female Driver assaulted Iranian tourist who made an offensive gesture in Dubai

DUBAI // A female driver assaulted a tourist who made an offensive gesture at her, a court heard today. Read article

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Thailand: Australian tourist raped by a former security guard and friend at nearby hotel in Phuket

According to a report contained in The Phuket News (http://www.thephuketnews.com), a former security guard at a Phuket nightclub, admitted that he and another Thai national raped a 23-year-old Australian tourist yesterday (April 12). After Theerasak Bhutrach, 26, was arrested later in the day, he told Patong [Phuket] police that he met the woman at the […]

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Dutchman tourist loses eye after a black man threw a rock from a passing train in Cape Cod

Netherlands who work at Cape Town International Airport for a foreign Airplane company and who lives in SA with his Afrikaans girlfriend lost his eye after a black man threw a rock from a passing train through the window and hit Jorrit de Vries (26) against his right eye. His eye is completely burst. The […]

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Thailand: Two youths confessed to be involved in savage knife attack of a young German tourist

PHUKET: Two youths have admitted to being involved in cutting off the thumb of a young German tourist in a savage knife attack in Krabi City at the weekend. Krabi police arrested the two youths and two others who between them admitted to four attacks on tourists. Two of the youths are aged 16, one […]

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