Crime

Bulgaria remains one of the primary source countries of human trafficking in the European Union and government corruption creates an environment enabling some trafficking crimes, the US State Department has said.

Ten people were killed after Indian security forces stormed a siege at a police station in the Indian state of Punjab. Seven people in the police station and the three attackers were all killed during the raid. The attackers, who were armed with automatic weapons had hijacked a car and opened fire at a bus station before going into the Gurdaspur region, according to officials.

The Turkish Coast Guard Command has rescued more than 20,000 migrants in multiple operations in the Aegean Sea since the beginning of this year, according to figures from the body.

Australian police found a child’s skeletal remains in a suitcase dumped on the side of a highway in Adelaide, South Australia. A passer-by found the remains on July 15.

A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents. 

A Palestinian man fell to his death while trying to escape Israeli forces who were attempting to arrest him in the occupied West Bank early on July 27, Israeli police said.

Seen from outside, it is great to be a child in Turkey.

But only when seen from outside.

This country likes its children.

Here children are the center of life.

This is the only country where a special holiday has been declared just for children.

It?s a place where advice such as ?Have children, have three children, have five children? never ends.

Thailand on July 24 said it would indict 72 people including a senior army officer over human trafficking after the grim trade in migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh rocked the Southeast Asian region.

Phil Rudd, the Australian-born former drummer of rock band AC/DC, was released on bail after he was charged in a New Zealand court on July 20 for consuming alcohol in breach of the conditions of his home detention, court officials said. 

The deadline for the completion of the investigation of the 2012 Burgas bus bombing has been extended to August 25, according to a media statement of the Burgas District Prosecutor's Office.