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06.06.2009, 00:37 15 comments

China to execute more African drug dealers

Africans are learning the hard way that in China the consequences for drug smuggling are more grave than a stained criminal record or a long sentence behind bars. Drug smugglers face a life penalty, but not in prison.

06.05.2010, 15:55 15 comments

Pirate-captured tanker freed by Russian navy

The crew of a large Russian anti-submarine ship has freed an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates on Wednesday. All 23 Russian sailors from the hijacked vessel have escaped the incident unscathed.

Alleged hijackers of Arctic Sea under safe convoy at the Moscow airport of Chkalovsky 23.08.2009, 11:39 4 comments

Arctic Sea hijack suspects questioned in Moscow

The eight suspected hijackers of the ‘Arctic Sea’ cargo ship have been arrested and questioned by investigators in a high-security prison in Moscow this week.

19.11.2009, 15:00 5 comments

Somali pirates waste ransom money on weddings and orgies

The Somali pirates have spent the € 2.7 million they got for the liberation of the Alakrana trawler from the Spanish government on weddings and orgies.

28.09.2009, 08:32 4 comments

Modern piracy rooted in poverty and war

Pirates off the coast of Somalia are still a major threat to commercial shipping despite a large-scale international military effort to net them. Thirty-one international warships are now patrolling the Gulf of Aden.

03.11.2009, 11:34 4 comments

“Rendition is the CIA term for illegal kidnapping”

Following fresh speculation that the CIA is still running secret prisons, author and journalist Webster Tarpley shares some details on “rendition” activity in Ireland, Romania, Germany, Egypt and now the UK.

07.05.2010, 10:39 3 comments

Attackers of Russian tanker released in open sea

The Russian Navy has had to release 10 Somalis, captured earlier in an operation to rescue a seized tanker. There was no legal way to prosecute them for piracy.

06.08.2009, 15:26 3 comments

Chocolate’s secret ingredient – child slavery

Chocolate is a sweet business with disgusting ingredients – like child slavery. Attempts are being made to change the industry by pressing consumers, but Interpol says – free the children, prosecute the criminals.

21.05.2010, 08:31 3 comments

No breakthrough in fighting Somali pirates

Russia is preparing to start negotiations to free two of its sailors captured by pirates last weekend.

25.10.2010, 17:45

Hijacked German cargo ship freed

Pirates have fled the German Beluga Fortune dry cargo ship they earlier seized in the central part of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya.

Hostages escape from captors

Published: 20 February, 2009, 04:53


Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (AFP Photo / Pius Utomi Ekpei )

The Nigerian Army says it has found two Russian hostages who escaped from their captors in the Niger Delta. A spokesman said the pair escaped on foot and were found several days later by soldiers.

 
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