Crime News

Bangkok - Six suspected drug dealers were shot dead during a firefight with Thai security forces who seized illegal amphetamines at the scene, police said Saturday.

New York - US authorities are investigating the French banks Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole for embezzlement and violating American sanctions against other countries, a source close to the matter said Friday.Other big international banks were a...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong businessman and Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung was on Friday sentenced to six years in jail for laundering HK$720 million ($93 million).Judge Douglas Yau handed down the sentence in the southern Chinese city's district court after convict...

Washington - The US Army's top prosecutor overseeing sexual assault cases has been suspended over allegations he groped a female lawyer working for him and tried to kiss her, officers said.The suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Morse marks the latest embarrass...

Moscow - A Moscow appeals court on Thursday cut the sentences for former Bolshoi soloist and two accomplices over an acid attack that nearly blinded the famed company's artistic director.Soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko had his six-year sentence in a strict-regime pe...

Singapore - Singapore's police said Thursday they were investigating the "unnatural death" of a young American woman who headed a company dealing in the Bitcoin virtual currency.Autumn Radtke, chief executive of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange company First Meta,...

Mexico - A Mexican court rejected an appeal Wednesday by drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to avoid extradition to the United States in the absence of any formal request.Following his February 22 capture, Guzman filed a motion for an immediate injunction t...

Husband-and-wife cast members of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reality television show pleaded guilty on Tuesday to mail and wire fraud conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud stemming from what ...

Rome - An Italian judge warned Tuesday that a "new type" of mafia organisation has taken root in Italy, after police discovered a money-laundering operation headed up by a mobster nicknamed the "Bank of Italy".Giuseppe Pensabene, a member of the powerful 'Ndr...

Detroit - A Detroit resident shot and killed a man who was trying to break into her home Friday afternoon, continuing a developing trend of self defense with firearms in Detroit and around the nation.