The Indonesian government has taken legal action against companies allegedly involved in causing forest fire in the country that triggered haze enveloping Singapore and Malaysia, police said here on Tuesday.
Italian police launched a major anti-mafia operation on Monday, seizing some 120 kg of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro in Southern Italy, local media reported.
A key suspect in last month's deadly Bangkok bombing, which killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others, was taken to the crime scenes for re-enactment on Tuesday, police said.
The Egyptian prosecution referred Saturday 53 members and loyalists of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to military trial over the murder of a police officer earlier this year, official MENA news agency reported.
A truck with Hungarian license plates parked at the side of the highway to Vienna early Thursday morning was discovered to have dozens of dead bodies inside, Austrian police said on Thursday.
China's top procuratorate accused 11 officials and port executives of neglecting management of dangerous chemicals storage and transportation in the Tianjin port, where explosions killed 139 and devastated the port area.
Authorities in the eastern U.S. state of West Virginia said Tuesday that a 14-year-old male student with a pistol had held several students and a teacher hostage earlier at a high school in the state.
The death toll in an air crash on Saturday in West Sussex, southeastern Britain was "highly likely" to rise to 11, local police said Sunday.
Clashes renewed on Sunday between Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and thousands of protesters who gathered for the second consecutive day in downtown Beirut demanding that the government either find a quick solution to the waste problem or resign.
Seven Chinese nationals have been confirmed killed in Monday's explosion in central Bangkok, while Thai police have offered a high bounty on a main suspect.
At least 23 people, among them six policemen, got injured earlier Thursday in a blast that targeted a national security building in Qalioubiya province near Cairo, the Egyptian state TV reported.
Another black teenager was killed in the United States on Wednesday, 10 days after the first anniversary of death of Michael Brown, which caused massive protests in the country.
Belgian police arrested one of the most wanted men for murder in Italy on Monday morning in a village in West Flanders, the Belgian press reported on Wednesday.
At least seven people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday when stones and debris from a hill rolled down and damaged part of a Sikh temple's residential complex in northern India, said police.
More than 1,000 people on Saturday attended the funeral of the black Texas teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a contentious burglary incident, as U.S. racial divide exposed in the tragedy and similar incidents gained renewed attention.
At least 23 people were wounded Thursday in a suicide car bombing in eastern Afghanistan's province of Logar, an official said.
Five people from the same family were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing materials related to terrorism, Britain's Metropolitan Police said.
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