Articles by sandrea

ATLANTA—An attorney for a high-ranking Department of Defense employee charged with taking a bribe to steer federal contracts for work in Afghanistan to a contractor says he’s set to plead guilty. Desi Deandre Wade’s attorney […] […]

Police in London say they have arrested 143 people on Saturday during an angry demonstration by up to 500 people against the re-election of President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Protesters broke […] […]

AT least 41 civilians including seven children were shot dead by Syrian security forces in the capital Damascus and the restive central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said in […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaican authorities say 217 police officers who took voluntary lie-detector tests this year failed. Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Felice said Friday that was 60 percent of the 362 officers who underwent the tests. He […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—A U.S. surveillance plane helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, the prime minister said, reversing earlier government denials. A U.S. P-3 Orion aircraft provided […] […]

Severe winds slammed Scotland on Thursday, snarling transport and leaving thousands without power as gusts in some areas surpassed 160 kilometres per hour. Britain’s Met Office which issued a “red alert” for parts of Scotland […] […]

A PARCEL bomb exploded at a public building in Rome, injuring one person, police said today. The explosion happened at offices belonging to the tax-collecting organization Equitalia in Via Andrea Millevoi, in the center of […] […]

THE CIA used a clandestine detention centre in Bucharest to interrogate al-Qaeda suspects, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, according to an investigation by German media. The prison, used between 2003 and 2006, was […] […]

A COURT in Thailand has jailed a Thai-born American for 2 1/2 years for defaming the monarchy, a sentence that the US criticised as “severe”. The conviction of Joe Wichai Commart Gordon, who appeared in […] […]