U.K. Home Secretary Reveals Plans to Tackle Organized Criminals

Plans to create a more hostile environment for organized criminals, seize their assets and shut down their businesses are part of a strategy to step up the fight against serious organized crime which have been published by U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson. The...

Kenyan Leader Vows to Pursue Instigators of the Post–election Violence

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday vowed that his government would pursue those who incited, organized or financed the post-election violence that saw more than 1,000 people lose their lives, barely a day after the United States-based Human Rights...

Thirty-three Caught in Australia Smuggling Drugs Internally in 2007

A 42-year-old Spanish woman has become the seventh person this year to be charged with smuggling drugs internally. Australian Federal Police and Customs officers caught 33 people attempting to smuggle drugs internally in 2007, including 16 Australian...

Pridnestrovie Plans Its Own Foreign Intelligence Service

At a session of the Presidium of Pridnestrovie’s Parliament held on Tuesday, lawmakers today discussed and included in the agenda of the next plenary session a Bill On Foreign Intelligence of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica (PMR, but...

Russia: Opposition Journalist Granted Asylum In Ukraine

Ukrainian officials say they have granted asylum to a Russian journalist who alleges harassment in his home country after he took up a leadership role with a political opposition group.