Tag: charges

PIA to charge double for luggage

KARACHI: Flagship carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has raised its baggage fees, nearly doubling it as compared to private airlines. Starting April 1, PIA has...

Bosnia charges two Pakistanis, an Iraqi with people smuggling

SARAJEVO: Bosnian prosecutors on Thursday charged seven people, including one Iraqi and two Pakistani men, with people smuggling. The group is suspected of ferrying at...

Portugal charges 12 over huge wildfire that killed 66 people

LISBON: Prosecutors in Portugal are bringing charges of criminally negligent homicide against 12 defendants over the deaths of 66 people in a major wildfire...

US charges associate of indicted Russian with lobbying violation

WASHINGTON: US prosecutors on Friday charged a business associate of Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian consultant indicted by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, with failing...

Bangladesh charges eight over 2016 cafe attack, frees British suspect

DHAKA: Bangladesh police have charged eight militants over a 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka that killed 22 people, and freed a British...

Myanmar court files secrets act charges against Reuters reporters

  YANGON: A court in Myanmar on Monday charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into...

Brazil charges 11 people with trying to set up Islamic State...

BRASILIA: Brazilian prosecutors have charged 11 people with planning to establish an Islamic State cell in Brazil and trying to recruit jihadists to send...

Charges against US diplomat submitted in lower court: report

ISLAMABAD: Charges against the US diplomat who killed a youth in Islamabad last week has been submitted to a lower court for trial, as reported...

Jadhav undergoing trial on terrorism, sabotage charges: report

ISLAMABAD: The Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav is currently undergoing a trial on terrorism and sabotage charges, as reported by a local English daily. The Pakistan...

Cambodia charges 10 foreigners for producing porn

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian judge is investigating whether to pursue pornography charges against 10 foreigners arrested after organising a party which featured indecent dancing,...

Iraq receives former minister charged with graft charges from Lebanon

BAGHDAD: Iraqi authorities on Thursday took into custody a former trade minister convicted in absentia for corruption cases, following his extradition from Lebanon, Iraq’s...

Vietnam should drop charges against human rights defenders, says HRW

  NEW YORK: Vietnam should drop charges against human rights defender Hoang Duc Binh and another defendant, Nguyen Nam Phong, and immediately release them, Human Rights...

Boucher to plea guilty against charges over assaulting US Senator

KENTUCKY: A Kentucky man accused of attacking US Senator Rand Paul outside his home has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of assaulting a...

Ex-US Navy officers face charges over deadly ship collisions

WASHINGTON: The commanding officers of two US Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions last year in the Pacific Ocean face courts-martial and military criminal...

Indian civic body head charged with sedition over ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans...

BAREILLY: The chairperson of Nawabganj Nagar Palika in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) India, Shehla Tahir, has been booked for sedition after "pro-Pakistan...

German prosecutors bring charges against top Iranian cleric

BERLIN: Germany's federal prosecutor's office is examining whether to bring charges against a senior Iranian cleric who has been mentioned as a possible future...

Myanmar police charge Reuters reporters under Official Secrets Act

YANGON: Two Reuters journalists were formally charged by police in a Myanmar court Wednesday for breaching a colonial-era secrecy law that carries up to 14...