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Police uncover int`l drug trafficking ring, arrest four suspects

Jakarta police have uncovered an international drug trafficking ring whose operations were controlled by an inmate of ...

32 inmates break out of three Mexican prisons

Inmates staged near simultaneous jailbreaks from three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz early Monday and at ...

Egypt`s ex-tourism minister gets 3-year jail term

A Cairo court sentenced former tourism minister Zuheir Garana on Sunday to three years in prison for illegally issuing ...

Rapper Gucci Mane sent to jail in Georgia

Rapper Gucci Mane will spend the next six months in jail in Georgia after admitting on Tuesday to pushing a woman out ...

Many Indonesians visit radical sites in southeast asia: Mbai

Indonesia`s national anti-terrorism agency (BNPT) chief said many Indonesians visit radical sites in Southeast Asia ...

Iran hangs four drug smugglers in prison

Iran has hanged four convicted drug traffickers in a prison in the southern city of Kerman, Shargh newspaper reported ...

Law enforcement not yet produce sense of justice

  Law enforcement in Indonesia during the reform era has yet to produce a sense of justice for the people, former ...

One killed, two injured in Pattani prison riot

Rival groups of inmates rioted in Pattani provincial central prison, Monday, morning resulting in one prisoner dead ...

Some 44,652 convicts to get remission

As many as 44,652 people of the total of 133,379 convicts across Indonesia are expected to get remission on the ...

Govt temporarily stops recruiting civil servants

The government has decided to temporarily stop recruiting civil servants to streamline the bloated size of its 4.7 ...

Ministers sign joint decree on civil servant recruitment moratorium

Three ministers signed a Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB) on the moratorium of civil servant recruitment at the Vice ...

Media watchdog slams Vietnam blogger jailing

Watchdog Reporters Without Borders called on Vietnam to halt a "dangerous" trend in "Chinese-style" censorship after a ...

Italian conservative MP and businessman investigated for conspiracy

Italian conservative lawmaker Alfonso Papa and businessman Luigi Bisignani, are now under investigation for conspiracy ...

Militants escape in Nigerian oil-city jailbreak

Five militants escaped from a prison in Nigeria`s main oil-hub Port Harcourt on Sunday by using their metal beds as ...

Peace Corps worker alleged abused minors in S.Africa

A former Peace Corps volunteer was arrested Thursday and charged with sexually abusing children under six while ...