International News Week of October 20

Burmese Nobel Winner Appeals Arrest Burma’s opposition leader, Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has submitted an appeal against her house arrest, Intellasia reports. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in her country for 12 out of the last 19 years. Burma has detained her under the 1975 anti-subversion law, maintaining that the [...]

International Headlines October 14

Power Sharing Talks In Zimbabwe Falter Zimbabwe’s opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, walked out of power-sharing talks on Wednesday, Business Day reports. The country’s ruling PF party headed by Robert Mugabe and the opposition MDC party had signed an agreement last month that allotted certain ministries to each [...]

International Headlines October 6

India has signed a nuclear energy deal with France, AFP reports. After India used its civilian nuclear program to develop an atom bomb in 1974, other countries were banned from selling nuclear technology and equipment to India. With this signing, India is now free to purchase nuclear reactors and fuel to power the country of [...]

Drama QueensIndie and Foreign Films At The Venice Film FestivalWhat: Upcoming indie and foreign films take you from Europe to the slums of Brazil to the Far East.

The Dirt:Are you a fan of the American flicks that are so depressing you leave happy your life is seemingly ‘normal’? Or, do you put up with subtitles to get a dose of the international films, be they the African or Latin American, which often show faraway, seemingly unfamiliar lands, offering a mini cultural and [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking July 21

According to European Law Enforcement Organisation said 75 people were detained in nine nations as 1,300 officers focused on a gang understood to have smuggled illegal immigrants into the European Union for £8,000 – £9,500 each, The Times of London reports. Six people were arrested in the U.K. and travel is believed to have originated from [...]

International News July 15

A United Nations Security Council measure to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe failed when two of the 15-member group’s permanent members—China and the Russian Federation—voted against a draft resolution. The measure would have placed an arms embargo on the African nation, as well as a travel ban and a financial freeze against Mugabe [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking July 7

The United States Customs and Immigration Services announced that it will close it’s Tijuana, Mexico, field office on July 3, and its Hong Kong field office on August 29. Both stopped taking applications. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police busted an illegal “super lab,” one of the largest clandestine drug labs ever found in the country, [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking June 23

Afghanistan is becoming known as a nation with a big sex trade with both street sex slaves and brothels often occupied by Chinese women serving locals and foreigners, The Los Angeles Times reports. However the Afghan prostitutes are said to work in an underground society and are often forced to have anal sex to remain [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking June 9

Police in Australia have arrested 70 people and removed four children from their homes in a six-month nationwide investigation surrounding a global child-pornography network, CBC reports. Twenty other people are being asked to appear in court and police say all 90, including a police officer and many teachers, will face charges of accessing images of child [...]

International News May 5

At least 15 people were killed and 55 injured after a bomb hit a mosque Friday in the northern part of the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen, BBC reports. Local officials said the bomb was hidden in a car or a motorcycle and Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of a local Shia rebellion group, denied responsibility for [...]