Philippines Seizes Disputed Airport Terminal
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The Philippine government moved dramatically on Tuesday to break a two year deadlock over a new airport terminal, sending police to seize it from a consortium led by Germany&#39;s Fraport after winning a court order.
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Authorities have uncovered an al-Qaida-linked plot to assassinate the president of the Philippines, officials said Thursday
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Suspected Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the southern Philippines early on Friday with grenades and rockets, blasted a hole in its wall and helped 46 prisoners escape, authorities said.
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Philippine soldiers captured a suspected  Muslim militant who was part of a group planning to bomb  ferries and public facilities in the south, an army official  said on Tuesday.
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Pakistani police early Saturday seized control of an Islamic seminary run by the clerics from the embattled Red Mosque, officials said.
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BEIJING -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport yesterday after authorities prevented her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and condemnation.
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Authorities on the Chinese island of Hainan seize 40 tonnes of stolen coral, according to state media.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement  for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed  responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday  in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Filipino working for a Saudi company was among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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Spanish police arrested the hijacker of an Air Mauritania plane that landed in Las Palmas airport, and the 71 passengers have been freed unharmed, Canary Islands police chief Jose Segura said.
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Hundreds of federal police and soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison Friday amid reports of a planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between two reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
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(InfoWorld) - A gang of thieves stole computer chips reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars in a Monday raid on an air cargo terminal in Batu Muang, Malaysia. "The incident occurred between 2.00 a.m and 3.30 a.m when the group, with weapons, forced its way into the [Penang International Airport Free Commercial Zone] facility after overpowering the personnel on duty at the Malaysia Airlines security checkpoint and the Royal Malaysian Customs office," Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn. Bhd. (MASkargo) said in a statement. Malaysian police are investigating the theft, MASkargo said. The gang of 20 thieves subdued 17 security guards using weapons and chloroform before stealing 585 cartons and 18 pallets of microchips and motherboards manufactured by a multinational company in Bayan Lepas, Malaysia, The Star newspaper reported Tuesday on its Web site. The stolen goods were estimated to be worth $12.7 million, making the theft the largest ever in Malaysia, it said. News reports in Malaysia have not named the multinational company that produced the chips. Several large companies, including Dell, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices, have operations in Bayan Lepas, which is near Penang.
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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.
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A plane operated by a budget airline overshot the runway as it landed in the central Philippines on Wednesday, but no one was hurt, officials said.
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Bolivia seizes control of the country's largest tin smelter complex, as the government nationalises the facility.
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Six Al-Qaeda-linked militants have been charged in the Philippines with the bombing of a ferry that left over 100 people dead, with the government confirming for the first time the blast was the work of terrorists.