Britain’s National Crime Agency has warned of an “unprecedented risk” to young people from online groups that encourage teenagers to share sadistic and misogynistic material and to coerce others into sexual abuse, self-harm or violence. The agency, which is responsible for combating serious and organized crime in Britain, said Tuesday in an annual assessment of…
A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they arrived at an abandoned ranch outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three underground cremation ovens, burned human remains, hundreds of bone shards and discarded personal…
By Luiza Ilie Internet celebrity Andrew Tate leaves Romania for Florida, source says BUCHAREST -Internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left Romania on a private flight headed to Florida in the United States, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, after prosecutors lifted a travel ban. The source said that…
The job advertisement promised a fat salary in a modern metropolis. Fisher, a 27-year-old Ethiopian who had studied electrical engineering, convinced his father to sell the family farmland — where generations had grown mangoes, avocados and teff, an ancient grain — to pay for a ticket to Bangkok. The car ride to his new workplace,…
There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they were ensnared in a 21st-century scourge — online scam mills that have…
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police safely recovered a Chinese student who was kidnapped by a Chinese-led gang, which killed his driver and cut off the student’s finger in a bid to force his parents to pay a huge ransom, officials said Wednesday. Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said the parents rejected the ransom demand but the…
Italian police officers on Tuesday arrested 181 people believed to be affiliated with the Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian mafia is known, dealing what officials said was an “important blow” to a criminal organization that has held the region in its grip for generations. “Cosa Nostra is far from dead,” even after years of being…
Nighttime provides ideal cover for acts of sabotage in the sleepy fishing villages along the southern shores of Nova Scotia. Slashed buoys, stolen lobster crates, mysterious fires. These are just some of the acts of vandalism on the wharves where lobster fishers have been locked in battle for more than three decades. Lobstermen have a…
Standing behind heaping piles of drugs stacked in clear plastic bags and storage boxes, Toronto’s police chief last week announced the force’s largest-ever cocaine seizure, intercepted at the border in a truck entering from the United States. A few hours later, President Trump also addressed cross-border drug trafficking — but in his case to lay…
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