A Malaysian will be extradited by Thai police to the United States where he is wanted in connection with credit card fraud amounting to US$150 million (RM505 million). Gooi Kok Seng, aka Delpiero, 44, is wanted by US authorities to face ...

Colombia's fight against the FARC increasingly focuses on cutting off the rebels' funding from narco-trafficking, as police collect new information on the organisation's drug trading structure. Colombian police, in collaboration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are now focusing their ...

Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels' efforts to limit information. In places such as Reynosa, where gunbattles were a regular occurrence last week, ...

The OECD is planning to list tax offences as a form of money laundering, a move that could hit Switzerland hard, a Swiss newspaper reported overnight. Without citing its sources, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung said that if tax offences were reclassified in ...

As many as 40,000 women could enter South Africa to work as prostitutes during this year's football World Cup, officials have warned. The host nation is tightening border controls ahead of a predicted influx of sex workers ...

German courts have been dealing with an unusual problem. More than 100,000 tons of Italian trash were shipped to eastern Germany, saving a waste treatment plant from bankruptcy. But what could have been a solution to Naples' ...