47+ min ago   (259+ words) KVNU Case dismissed against Providence airline pilot facing felony kidnapping, assault charges following alleged attack LOGAN — The criminal case against a 44-year-old commercial airline pilot from Providence has been dropped after prosecutors reported evidentiary concerns and an uncooperative victim. Colby…...

1+ hour ago   (626+ words) War with Thailand pushed Cambodia to enact a sweeping scam crackdown. Now the ruling elite is leveraging the same crackdown to consolidate its political control. The remains of O’Chik Bridge, which was partially destroyed by a Thai F-16 airstrike on…...

2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (375+ words) Ghana says Russia has agreed to end the “illegal recruitment” of its citizens to fight in the war in Ukraine, as the number of Ghanaians killed while serving with Russian forces has risen to 62, with another 15 still missing. Ghanaian Foreign…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (41+ words) fox9.com A growing list of accusations are mounting for four people allegedly involved in a sex trafficking scheme in Minnesota – one of which was an attorney for Anoka County. FOX 9’s Corin Hoggard has the details....

4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (659+ words) Experts have called for a victim-centred approach to tackling human trafficking and other forms of transnational organised crime. They said victims often faced coercion, threats, psychological manipulation and physical or sexual abuse and should therefore receive protection, support and assistance…...

15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1044+ words) Rima (pseudonym) left Bagerhat for Dhaka around six months ago to work as a domestic help and support her three-year-old son. Instead, the 19-year-old says she was forced to take drugs, threatened with compromising videos, married off to a Chinese…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (382+ words) SAN DIEGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the San Diego Sector rescued two individuals in separate incidents in the East County mountains, where extreme terrain and high temperatures created life-threatening conditions. According to the agency, on Aug. 1 at 3 p.m.,…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (459+ words) A former Anoka County attorney has been charged with 26 felony counts in connection with a sprawling sex trafficking ring involving three other people and at least 13 victims, authorities announced Monday. Andrea Leigh Sampson, 35, of Fridley, and the other three defendants…...

14+ hour, 33+ min ago   (185+ words) A 33-year-old California man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 210 months (17.5 years) in prison for six federal felonies related to his multi-state sex trafficking activity, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd announced in a news release. Brandon Denzel…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago   (573+ words) Hugh Hefner repeatedly alerted the FBI that a Playboy Playmate had been sexually assaulted and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and others – but the agency allegedly ignored all his tips. Related: Modeling Scout Who Was Named Thousands Of Times In The…...