Veracruz (Mexico), Dec 29 (IANS/EFE) Several hundred people protested outside a prison in the Mexican city of Veracruz – where an upcoming Mel Gibson movie is to be filmed – to demand that a planned transfer of inmates not be moved up to an earlier date.
Close to 300 relatives of inmates at the Ignacio Allende [...]
Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar)/On board, Dec 12 (ANI): The seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) grouping adopted a convention to combat terrorism and insurgency at its ministerial meeting in Myanmar on Friday.
Foreign Ministers of BIMSTEC countries signed the Convention on Cooperation in Combating International Terrorism, Trans-National Organised [...]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (ANI): India has today finalised three agreements with Bangladesh aiming at mutual assistance in criminal matters, combating terrorism and organised crime and illegal drug trafficking.
The agreements will [...]
Bogota, Nov 12 (EFE) Nineteen rebels of Colombia’s largest leftist guerrilla group have been captured in three separate operations, the police said.
Fourteen rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were captured in northeastern Norte de Santander province, while the rest of the insurgents were nabbed in Antioquia and Uribe provinces, the police said [...]
Bogota, Nov 10 (DPA) Nine soldiers and at least 30 rebels were killed in clashes in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the Colombian Army said Tuesday.
The gun battle started late Monday when about 200 members of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) tried to storm the village of Corinto, 300 km southwest [...]
London, Nov 4 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who started his new term with a pledge to check corruption and reach out to opponents, has ruled out sacking corrupt minister and officials, and has neither outlined how he would tackle the systemic malpractice and criminality in the country which has attracted international criticism.
The US [...]
Kuala Lumpur, November 02 (ANI): Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister A. Kohilan Pillay has said that the women in the country are increasingly being conned by drug-trafficking syndicates, as they easily get charmed and lured.
Hinting at 1,565 Malaysians jailed abroad with 60 percent of them being imprisoned for working as drug mules, the minister said that [...]
Bogota, Oct 30 (DPA) Colombia and the US signed Friday a controversial military deal granting the US use of seven military bases on Colombian soil.
The US-Colombian plan had been announced this summer and drew sharp criticism from Latin American leaders who worry that the US presence could threaten the sovereignty of neighbouring countries and promote [...]
Washington, Oct 15 (DPA) The United States placed sanctions Wednesday on the leader of Kurdish separatists operating in northern Iraq, accusing Murat Karayilan of trafficking in narcotics.
The US Treasury Department sanctions against Karayilan and two other senior leaders, Ali Riza Altun and Zubayir Aydar, freeze any assets they might have in the US and ban [...]
Singapore, Oct. 13 (ANI): Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said his country faces a 9/11-like situation every day because of its support to the global war on terror, and added that the country has received little in return for this sacrifice.
“International cooperation with Pakistan in combating terrorism is not befitting [us],” the Daily Times [...]
New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today said India and Bangladesh are close to finalizing an extradition treaty.
Talking to reporters at Bangladesh House in Delhi, Moni said that the extradition treaty is under discussion.
She also assured the Indian leadership that Bangladesh would not allow [...]
