Category Archives: SECURITY

Breaking News: Bushiri extradition ruling delivered In a highly anticipated decision, the Chief Resident Magistrate Court in Lilongwe has ruled that Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary must be extradited to South Africa to face multiple charges. Bushiri is set to face three rape charges, as well as charges of forgery, fraud, and jumping bail. His wife Mary will also face charges of fraud, forgery, and bail-jumping. The court has ordered the couple to remain in custody until they are handed over to South African authorities. However, not all charges against the couple will be pursued, as some – including theft, money laundering, and racketeering – were dropped due to insufficient evidence. Following the ruling, Bushiri’s lawyer, Wapona Kita, has requested that the court pause the extradition order and

Reports of more North Korean troops training for deployment in the Ukraine war have raised alarm in Seoul, with intelligence suggesting many of the soldiers sent by Pyongyang are willing to kill themselves rather than be captured in battle. Yu Yong-weon, a South Korean lawmaker with the ruling People Power Party, said on Wednesday that 3,500 additional North Korean soldiers were undergoing training in Russia ’s Far East. This follows the deployment of a second batch of 1,500 North Korean troops in January and February to replace those killed or wounded among the 11,000 initially sent in October to the western Russian city of Kursk, according to Yu. “About 3,500 North Korean soldiers are undergoing field adaptation training in five different locations in Russia’s Far East, and there is a

Former Bankstown hospital nurse Ahmad Rashad Nadir was charged with using a  carriage service to menace following an investigation into a recording of a chat video. By MICHAEL STARR MARCH 5, 2025 09:49 Updated: MARCH 5, 2025 09:51 Two Australian nurses who were suspended for saying they would, and have already killed Israeli pateints, February 12, 2025. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X) A second Australian nurse was charged Tuesday after claiming in a viral video to have killed Israeli patients, the New South Wales Police Force announced on Wednesday, a week after another nurse featured in the video was charged. Former Bankstown hospital nurse Ahmad Rashad Nadir was charged with using a  carriage service to menace following an investigation into a recording of a random video chat in which the suspect told

Hong Kong customs’ seizures of the drug Ice increased 4.8 times in the first two months of 2025 compared with last year, after authorities stepped up enforcement on goods from countries known for drug trafficking such as Mexico. The amount of methamphetamine seized in January and February this year surged 4.8 times to 837kg (1,845lbs), up from 145kg over the same period in 2024, customs said on Wednesday. For the entire 2024 year, 1,112kg of the drug ice were seized. One of the cases earlier this year involved HK$360 million (US$46.32 million) worth of Ice, or about 680kg of suspected methamphetamine, which was disguised inside heating panels from Mexico. Three men were arrested. The case followed customs’ biggest seizure of suspected crystal meth in solid form in October 2023, with

Optimism about Syria ’s future that greeted the fall of the Assad regime in December is fast waning as sustained US economic sanctions against Damascus and distrust of its transitional government threaten to tilt the country towards chaos again after 14 years of civil war . There are also fears over Israel ’s military intervention in southern Syria to prevent the Islamist administration of transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa from establishing control there. Meanwhile, the Kurdish-majority northeast remains in control of the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), despite a military offensive by the Turkish proxy Syrian National Army. Although the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led government in Syria has stayed out of the fighting and engaged the SDF in negotiations, al-Sharaa has failed to ease concerns among the country’s minority communities that

Singapore will consider caning as punishment for serious scam-related offences as it steps up enforcement action following record losses. Residents in the city state lost at least S$1.1 billion (US$821 million) to scams in 2024, a 70 per cent increase from the year before, figures from the Singapore Police Force showed. “We will consider … caning to be prescribed for certain scam-related offences, recognising the serious harm they can cause,” Minister of State for Home Affairs Sun Xueling said during a parliamentary debate on Tuesday. Sun was responding to Member of Parliament Tan Wu Meng’s question on whether caning should be legislated for serious scam-related offences. Tan had earlier called for mandatory caning for scammers in serious cases, according to local media outlet CNA. “We must send a clear message

The Philippines must be prepared that its security alliances may not hold in times of crisis, its ambassador to the US has warned, after a clash between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House cast doubts about Washington’s commitment towards its partners. Ambassador Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr had to “be ready” for any scenario regarding the long-standing alliance between the Philippines and the US. The heated exchange between Trump and Zelensky ended with the Ukrainian leader walking out without signing a minerals deal that was proposed by Washington. The incident has sparked debates around the world about whether the US could abandon its security alliances with Nato and Asian partners, such as the Philippines. Mel Sta.