SAPS recovery of stolen cars intensifies over Mozambique border

SAPS recovery of stolen cars over the Mozambique border has seen 64 vehicles returned to South Africa. While the South African Police Service celebrates this, it acknowledges there’s still plenty of work to do in the fight against hijacking. As The South African reported last month, the South Africa-Mozambique border is plagued with outlaw towns … Read more

Love Lies Bleeding is a bizarro, acid-tinged western set in the ’80s

Where Love Lies Bleeding ends up — full of psychedelic visions, blood-covered bodies and more than a fair amount of screaming — is very different from where the movie starts out.  That’s because the Kristen Stewart-led, Rose Glass-directed bodybuilding crime epic is a genre send-up in just about every way. The film follows Lou (Stewart), a 20-something gym manager … Read more

Iran smuggling arms to Hezbollah via European ports

Iran has been using European ports to “legitimize” its arms exports to Hezbollah, according to a report by The Telegraph on Thursday. The report states that Hezbollah received arms, including missiles and bombs used on Israel, from ships that docked in Belgium, Spain, and Italy. Antwerp, Valencia, and Ravenna were named as the major European … Read more

Former president of Honduras convicted of drugs charges

By Larry Neumeister | Associated Press NEW YORK — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted Friday in New York of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers and used his military and national police force to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into the United States. The jury returned its verdict … Read more

Former Ajax, Dutch International Quincy Promes Arrested For Smuggling

Quincy Promes at Spartak Moscow (Credit: X) Dutch prosecutors confirmed the arrest on Friday but said it was for an alleged offense committed in the United Arab Emirates city and not on a Dutch request for extradition. Convicted former Ajax and Dutch international winger Quincy Promes has been arrested in Dubai, two weeks after a … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Top Nigeria Customs officers enmeshed in multi-billion naira corruption scandal

An intense lobbying is ongoing in the highest hierarchy of the Nigerian government as powerful government officials attempt to cover up a multi-billion naira corruption scandal involving senior officials of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), PREMIUM TIMES has gathered. At least 40 NCS personnel, most of them in the services’ highest hierarchy, have been indicted … Read more

Jordanian airstrikes target Iran-linked drug smugglers in Syria – report

Jordanian airstrikes targeted several sites near the Jordanian-Syrian border on Thursday night, according to the local news site Suwayda24. One of the sites targeted was located in the town of Al Ghariyah, while another strike targeted the home of a man named Ahed al-Ramthan in the town of Al-Shaab, both south of As-Suwayda. Local … Read more

China indicts 52 per cent more cyber scammers than last year as country cracks down on fraud rings

A total of 17,000 people were indicted for taking part in overseas cyber syndicates in the first 10 months, up 5.3 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year. Their victims were mostly in mainland China. Myanmar cybercrime kingpin dead, family handed over to China China also stepped up its crackdown on human smugglers … Read more