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The Dubai skyline on Dec. 15, 2023. For years, Dubai has been an ideal rear base for trafficking and money laundering, with little risk of being extradited for lack of satisfactory judicial cooperation, according to European investigators and magistrates.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
End of the Dubai dream for Europe's drug lords?
The Gulf emirate has been a haven for some of Europe's biggest drug traffickers, but the tide may be turning.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Russia detains suspect in killing of chemical weapons chief Igor Kirillov
Russia said the suspect, a Uzbekistan national, had been recruited by Ukrainian security services to carry out the assassination.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Luigi Mangione indicted for first-degree murder in CEO death
Mangione faces as long as life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted.
Gold samples confiscated by Federal Police in Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 19
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 16, 2024
New technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle
A police program is creating a database of samples from across Brazil that are examined to determine the unique composition of elements.
Numbered evidence markers indicate where bullet casings were located at the crime scene outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot, Dec. 4.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 13, 2024
Suspect in UnitedHealthcare shooting visited Japan, then vanished
By Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Shawn Hubler and Jacey Fortin
New details are emerging about Luigi Mangione’s growing impatience with "a capitalist society” and his search for refuge in the mountains of Japan.
A man checks a tunnel found under a mosque in Tadamon district, which is littered with bones, in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 13, 2024
At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors and seek answers
By Maya Gebeily
After Bashar Assad's ouster, residents hope the site in Damascus' Tadamon district can be cordoned off for those responsible to be held accountable.
U.S. President Joe Biden during an event at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 13, 2024
Biden pardons 39 people and commutes sentences of 1,500 others
By Bianca Flowers and Chandni Shah
The moves come over a week after the president signed an unconditional pardon for his son Hunter.
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, is escorted after an extradition hearing at Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2024
Luigi Mangione was charged with murder — then donations started pouring in
By Rich McKay and Brad Brooks
The photogenic, Ivy League-educated 26-year-old's support has seemingly only intensified since his arrest on Monday.
Police escort Luigi Mangione to his arraignment at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2024
Murder charges filed against suspect in UnitedHealthcare shooting
By Julio-Cesar Chavez, Andrew Hay and Joseph Ax
The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in a McDonald's after a customer and an employee believed he resembled the gunman.
A person holds a sign while standing on the roadside near the McDonald's restaurant where a suspect in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2024
Killing of UnitedHealthcare exec ignites patient anger over insurance
By Stephanie Kelly and Julie Steenhuysen
The attack called fresh attention to deepening frustrations faced by Americans in their struggle to receive and pay for medical care.

Honda and Nissan might combine to form world’s No. 3 auto group
Nissan President and CEO Makoto Uchida (left) and Honda President and CEO Toshihiro Mibe hold a news conference in Tokyo in March. Both automakers have been working together for months on a deal of some sort.
43-year-old man arrested over Kitakyushu McDonald's stabbings
A McDonald's outlet in Kitakyushu where two teens were stabbed, one fatally, on Saturday. Police arrested a 43-year-old suspect on Thursday morning.
What we know so far about the Kitakyushu stabbings
Police guard the scene early Sunday morning of a stabbing incident at a McDonald's store in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Amateur sumo world caught by surprise as Hakuho Cup set to go ahead
Miyagino (left), or former yokozuna Hakuho, alongside a young medalist at the Hakuho Cup in February 2023
Red Bull set to replace Sergio Perez with Liam Lawson, not Yuki Tsunoda
RB's Liam Lawson ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix on Dec. 1
Curiosity didn’t kill the meme: Why cats still rule Japanese YouTube
A screen shot from YouTube user @lagelda shows the simplicity of going viral in Japan in 2024: A cat dancing to EDM in front of a green screen.
With rare Asia carrier deployment, France seeks greater interoperability
The flight deck of the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier during a stop at Changi Naval Base in Singapore in May 2019
Taiwan’s bullet train a testament to shinkansen’s export potential
A Taiwan High Speed Rail bullet train arrives at Nangang Station in the city of Taipei.
Looking for ways to be charitable in Japan? Give the gift of reading.
Book Santa is a program that delivers books to children in need for Christmas, but it also operates year-round.
Women are writing a new chapter in Japanese literature in the 2020s
"Butter," Asako Yuzuki’s thrilling novel inspired by a real-life femme fatale, was named the Waterstones Book of the Year in 2024.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.
The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition
By Alex K.T. Martin

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