Category Archives: Crime

India Steps Up the Fight Against Piracy

MUMBAI, India — Over the past few years, Somali pirates have posed a bigger and bigger challenge to India, disrupting its trade, capturing its merchants, attacking closer to its shores and — like a game of Calvinball — changing the unwritten rules as they go. But India will not give up. Faced with a growing […]

‘Please, Please Stop’

South Africans have killed at least 22 foreigners and terrorized many times more in the past week as a wave of xenophobia washes over the country. See photos here. Anger against immigrants is not new to South Africa, but the violence rarely reaches this level. Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu condemned the attacks: “Please stop. Please stop the […]