Crime

Mexico: Brutal cartels fight over conflict-free gold revenues

Heroin traffickers linked to the abduction and disappearance of 43 students a year ago are battling over millions of dollars paid by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp to a village in Mexicos southern gold belt, leading to a wave of murders. Dec 8, 2015

Leytonstone Tube stabbing: David Cameron defends police response to attack

Prime Minister David Cameron praised Britains police force on 7 December following a knife attack at an underground station in east London over the weekend. Speaking at a school in Burton-upon-Trent, the PM defended the actions of those who intervened during the attack, which injured two people at Leytonstone Tube station on 5 December. Dec 7, 2015

FIFA: US charges 16 new officials as corruption scandal widens

The corruption scandal engulfing footballs governing body has widened, after a number of past or present FIFA officials were among 16 further people charged by US authorities on 3 December. The indictments, released by the US Department of Justice in Washington, came just hours after the arrests of two FIFA officials in dawn raids at a luxury hotel in Zurich. Dec 4, 2015
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