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BASRA, Iraq, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Seven Iraqi police officers were arrested Friday in Basra by British troops on suspicion of corruption and operating a death squad. The operation, which allegedly involved more than 1,000 coalition troops backed by tanks, was the first stage of a plan to
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A computer-savvy con artist who reprogrammed a Norfolk, Va., ATM to dispense four times the amount of cash a customer requests is being hunted by police.
LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- The British government has announced a plan for fraud prosecution, including longer prison sentences and a plea bargaining program. The government said the plan was written as a tactic to fight the growing number of high-finance fraud cases in the country
BURGAS, Bulgaria, July 18 (UPI) -- Bulgaria, a country where many people live in desperate poverty, has become one of Europe's baby-selling centers.
NAPERVILLE, Ill., June 11 (UPI) -- Police in Naperville, Ill., arrested a man accused of soliciting sex with a 14-year-old girl on the Web site Myspace.com, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- Only two days after U.S. federal authorities sentenced a 21-year-old to five years in prison for hacking computers, the British government ruled that one of its
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Steppin' Out magazine editor Chaunce Hayden has reportedly been receiving death threats for criticizing satellite radio shock jock Howard Stern.
LONDON, March 17 (UPI) -- London police say they have foiled one of the biggest attempted bank thefts in Britain.
KIEV, Ukraine, March 1 (UPI) -- The severed head of assassinated Ukrainian dissident journalist Georgi Gongadze was found in a Kiev creek Tuesday, the Russian Interfax news agency reported. Gongadze disappeared Sept. 16, 2000, and the following November, a headless body was found in the
SINGAPORE, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Executives at the collapsed China Aviation Oil Singapore have voluntarily handed over their passports to Singapore's police, a spokesman said Tuesday.