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Bai Suocheng, the patriarch of the Bai family, was among the Myanmar warlords taken to Beijing in 2024
China sentences infamous Myanmar scam mafia members to death
BEIJING— A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia.In all 21 Bai family members and associates were convicted of fraud, homicide, injury and other crimes, said a state media report published on the court website.The family is among a handful of mafias that rose to power in the 2000s and transformed the impoverished backwater town of Laukkaing into a lucrative hub of casinos and red-light districts.In recent years they pivoted to scams in which thousands of trafficked workers, many of them Chinese, are trapped, abused and forced to defraud others in criminal operations worth billions.Mafia boss Bai Suocheng and his son Bai Yingcang were among the five men sentenced to death...
November 04, 2025

China sentences infamous Myanmar scam mafia members to death

German federal police officers board a train near a border crossing point between Germany and Czech Republic at the station in Furth am Wald. (File photo)
Latvian man arrested in Austria after threatening to take hostages on train
VIENNA — A Latvian man has been arrested in Austria after threatening to take people hostage on a train traveling from Vienna to Innsbruck, police said.The 31-year-old threatened several train passengers with violence at 1 pm on Monday, and said he would take hostages if police came on board, authorities said.The suspect was arrested when the train stopped in Salzburg's main station.He became aggressive and one officer was injured while the arrest was made, local media reported.A video shared on X by the NEXTA news outlet shows a man being apprehended at the station and carried away by several police officers.The footage could not be independently verified by Euronews.The suspect was not armed and his motives remain unclear, the police said.The incident happened just two days after...
November 04, 2025

Latvian man arrested in Austria after threatening to take hostages on train

Andrew Cuomo
Trump backs Cuomo for New York City mayor, threatens to cut funding if Mamdani wins
NEW YORK — US President Donald Trump has endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayor's race, urging voters not to elect left-wing front-runner Zohran Mamdani."Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job," Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday evening. "He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!"The president earlier said he would be reluctant to send more than "the very minimum" level of federal funding to his hometown of New York if Mamdani was elected.This echoed comments he made in a television interview on Sunday, during which he referred to Mamdani as a communist - a label that Mamdani rejects."It's gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York," Trump said in...
November 04, 2025

Trump backs Cuomo for New York City mayor, threatens to cut funding if Mamdani wins

Shankar endured a lonely existence in India after his companion died in 2001
Delhi's lonely African elephant was killed by rare rodent-borne virus
DELHI — A rodent-borne virus led to the death of the only African elephant at the zoo in India's capital Delhi, officials have told the BBC.Shankar, a 29-year-old male, died on 17 September after spending much of his life in isolation. The cause of his death wasn't known at the time.Now, an autopsy has revealed that the elephant tested positive for encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV), Delhi Zoo director Sanjeet Kumar said.EMCV is known to cause fatal inflammation of the heart and sometimes brain fever in mammals. The virus is spread through rodent faeces and urine.Most outbreaks of EMCV have been associated with captive animals in pig farms, primate research centres and zoos, according to the MSD veterinary manual.The virus replicates rapidly and can attack the heart and...
November 04, 2025

Delhi's lonely African elephant was killed by rare rodent-borne virus

Patriot missile launchers acquired from the US last year are seen deployed in Warsaw
Ukraine gets more Patriot air defense systems from Germany to counter Russian attacks
KYIV — Ukraine has received more US-made Patriot air defense systems to help it counter Russia's daily aerial barrages, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Russian drones killed one and injured five others in the latest overnight attack."More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation," Zelenskyy said in a social media post late on Sunday."Of course, more systems are needed to protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of our state."He thanked Germany and its Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the systems.The sophisticated Patriot systems are the most effective weapon against Russian missiles.Zelensky has pleaded with Western partners to provide more of them, but production limitations and the need to maintain stockpiles have slowed their...
November 04, 2025

Ukraine gets more Patriot air defense systems from Germany to counter Russian attacks

Latvian lawmakers attend a Saeima session in Riga
Latvia's president asks parliament to rethink Istanbul Convention exit
RIGA — Latvia's President Edgars Rinkēvičs has said he is sending a law on the country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention back to parliament for further review, public broadcaster LSM reported on Monday.The parliament, or Saeima, voted on 31 October to withdraw from the human rights treaty which opposes violence against women and domestic violence.32 lawmakers voted to stay in the treaty, while 56 voted to leave, saying the treaty promotes "radical feminism based on the ideology of gender". There were two abstentions.Rinkēvičs said withdrawing from the treaty would send a "contradictory message.""The ratification and denunciation of the Convention during one Saeima term sends a contradictory message to both Latvian society and Latvia's allies internationally...
November 04, 2025

Latvia's president asks parliament to rethink Istanbul Convention exit

Former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez stands before a row of Peruvian flags
Peru cuts diplomatic ties with Mexico over ex-PM's asylum claim
LIMA — Peru has announced it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Mexico after its government granted asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister facing charges for a 2022 coup attempt.Peruvian Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela expressed his "surprise and deep regret" after learning Betssy Chávez was being given refuge at the Mexican embassy in Peru."Given this unfriendly act... the Peruvian government has decided to sever diplomatic relations with Mexico today," Zela said.Chávez had been imprisoned in June 2023 over her alleged role in ousted Peruvian president Pedro Castillos's plan to dissolve congress. She was released by a judge on bail in September and had denied the charges against her.Peru also accused Mexico of "repeated instances in which the current and former...
November 04, 2025

Peru cuts diplomatic ties with Mexico over ex-PM's asylum claim

Kim Yong Nam
North Korea's former ceremonial head of state dies
SEOUL — Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's former ceremonial head of state and a lifelong supporter of the ruling dynasty, has died aged 97, according to state media.He held the role of president of Pyongyang's rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly from 1998 to 2019.Kim Yong Nam served in various diplomatic roles under the regimes of the country's founder Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il, and his grandson Kim Jong Un - though was not related to the family.He died of multiple organ failure on 3 November, according to the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).The agency described him as an "old-generation revolutionary who left extraordinary achievements in the development history of our party and country". A state funeral has been held for him.Kim Yong Nam was born...
November 04, 2025

North Korea's former ceremonial head of state dies

A woman moves plastic bags of vegetables in food bank
Trump administration will tap emergency fund to pay partial food stamp benefits
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump's administration has said it will provide reduced food aid to more than 42 million Americans, as the government shutdown this week heads toward becoming the longest ever with no resolution in sight.The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a court filing that Americans who receive food assistance will get half their normal monthly allotment, after the government dipped into emergency funding.Judges had given the Trump administration until Monday to provide a plan for how it would pay out Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits, also known as food stamps.Funding for the program has been in limbo due to the more-than-month-long shutdown.While individual US states administer the benefits, the programme relies on money from...
November 04, 2025

Trump administration will tap emergency fund to pay partial food stamp benefits

Felix Kemboi is reeling from the shock of losing six relatives
Agony for families as landslide death toll climbs in Uganda and Kenya
KAMPALA/NAIROBI — More than 40 people are now known to have died after multiple landslides struck Kenya and Uganda's mountainous border region last week."I lost a grandmother, a maternal aunt, an uncle, two sisters, a family friend and a cousin. They were staying together in Kaptul village," Felix Kemboi told the BBC on the Kenyan side.So distressed was the 30-year-old Felix that he struggled to put the experience into words.On both sides of the border, many people are still missing and search and rescue teams have been sent out to find them, amid warnings that more landslides could occur."As heavy rainfall continues to be experienced across several parts of the country, the risk of landslides, especially along the Kerio Valley region, is heightened," warns Kenyan Interior Minister...
November 04, 2025

Agony for families as landslide death toll climbs in Uganda and Kenya

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