Slavery levels in UK 'higher than thought'

There could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, higher than previous figures, analysis for the Home Office suggests. Modern slavery victims are said to include women forced into prostitution, "imprisoned" domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats. The figure for 2013 is the first time the government has made an official estimate of the scale of the problem. The Home Office has launched a strategy...

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Egypt court dismisses murder charges against Mubarak

An Egyptian court has thrown out a case against former President Hosni Mubarak for conspiring to murder protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution due to a technicality and lack of jurisdiction. Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal were also cleared by Chief Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-Rashidi of corruption charges related to exporting gas to Israel. The same Cairo court acquitted Habib al-Adli, former Mubarak-era interior minister, and six senior security commanders of conspiracy to murder protesters. Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan...

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U.N. releases U.S. torture report

The events in Ferguson, Missouri, are a "tragedy," but the U.N. Committee Against Torture "has to respect the decision" of authorities not to prosecute police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, committee member Alessio Bruni said Friday. Bruni spoke at a news conference about the release of a committee report that criticizes, among other things, racial profiling and excessive use of force by U.S. police. While the report...

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Gunmen kidnap three expatriate workers in Bayelsa State

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three expatriate workers in Bayelsa State. Saturday Vanguard learnt the expatriates were seized, Wednesday, at Emakalakala in Ogbia local government area of the state. The abduction, has again brought to the fore the parlous state of security in the riverine enclave of the state where pirates and other criminal elements have been terrorizing law abiding citizens. Though the nationalities of the abducted expatriates could not be ascertained they were said to be working for a construction...

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Nigerian mosque attack deaths climb to 120

    UPDATED: NOV 29, 2014 01:23 GMT At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire on a Muslim congregation at Friday prayers in the central mosque in northern Nigeria's largest city of Kano, a rescue official said. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the toll could rise, as some of the wounded were in critical condition and...

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