Authorities have confirmed an Italian cargo ship was attacked by a group of suspected Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Monday, but it remains unclear if the ship is under the control of the assailants. The last message sent out from the Mont ...
Chinese authorities believe a drug gang is responsible for the murder of 13 sailors on Mekong River in northern Thailand last week. The Foreign Ministry in Yunnan Province said the sailors were killed after their cargo ships were attacked on Octo ...
Eight men suspected of being involved in 67 recent killings in Veracruz, Mexico were arrested by the navy this week. Authorities say the suspects are members of the Jalisco New Generational Cartel. They are believed to have posed as a vigilante g ...
A landmine planted by Maoist rebels killed four troops Friday in eastern India. Authorities say a convoy of 11 vehicles carrying Sashastra Seema Bal troops was traveling in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh state when one of the trucks hit the mine.
Authorities discovered over two dozen bodies in eastern Mexico on Thursday. The Mexican Navy released a statement saying they found the bodies while conducting an operation against organized crime in the port city of Veracruz.
A strong earthquake rattled northern Argentina Thursday morning shortly after 8 o’clock. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the 6.2 magnitude tremor was centered in Jujuy about 87 miles east-northeast of Salta and about 40 miles from the small to ...
Pakistani authorities in Baluchistan province have confirmed the arrests of more than 60 people suspected of taking part in Tuesday’s attack on a passenger bus carrying Shiite Muslims. Gunmen allegedly belonging to the Sunni militants group Lashk ...
An explosion at a coal mine in southern China this week left at least 16 people dead and 2 others missing. The explosion occurred Tuesday morning just before 8 o’clock at the Anping Coal Mine in Guizhou province’s Lihua Township.
A senior Haqqani leader known as Dilawar was killed Tuesday in an airstrike in Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force reports. The ISAF said Dilawar died in the Musa Khel district of Khost province along with two other milita ...
A NATO truck transporting fuel from Pakistan to forces in Afghanistan was ambushed and set on fire Tuesday. Muhammad Khalil, a police official in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, said a group of armed assailants stopped the truck near the provinc ...
Al-Shabaab militants have claimed responsibility for Tuesday morning’s deadly attack on a government complex in Mogadishu, Somalia. According to reports, a truck packed with explosives and scrap metal slammed into the gates of the complex and exp ...
After nearly four years in an Italian prison, American student Amanda Knox was freed Monday when an appeals court acquitted her of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.
Suspected al Shabaab militants kidnapped a French woman from her vacation home in Kenya over the weekend. Kenyan authorities say the woman, who has not been identified by French authorities, was taken from her home near the resort town of Lamu on ...
Search and rescue teams struggled to reach the site of a plane crash in a remote area of Indonesia Friday afternoon as teams observing the crash site from the air reported seeing signs of life. The Casa 212 turboprop plane, operated by Nusantara ...
A US-born senior Al Qaeda leader was among four militants killed Friday morning in Yemen. United States and Yemeni officials confirmed Anwar al-Awlaki died in an airstrike about 5 miles from the town of Khashef. Al-Awlaki was traveling with Samir ...
An explosion on board a docked ferry in central Indonesia sparked a deadly stampeded on Wednesday, an official with the National Disaster Management Agency confirmed. The cause of the explosion remains unclear.
Weeks after numerous schools in and around Acapulco, Mexico were temporarily shut down due to lack of protection from attacks by drug cartels, five human heads were discovered Tuesday outside an elementary school in the port city. Authorities say ...
A Christian pastor in Iran faces execution for refusing to renounce his faith in God and convert to Islam. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for apostasy in November 2010, but during the past three days of his appeals trial, Nadarkh ...
Multiple media outlets in Iran report the Iranian Navy plans to move vessels out of the Persian Gulf and into international waters near the Atlantic coast of the United States. Admiral Habibollah Sayyari is quoted by the Tehran Times as saying th ...
A police post in Helmand province, Afghanistan was attacked by Taliban militants Tuesday night, leaving at least 8 Afghan police officers dead and three others wounded. The post was completely destroyed.