Tag: detained
Re-defining “undocumented”: TSA allows illegal immigrants board flights without any ID
Chief Assignment Editor- June 7, 2019 18:45US Transportation Security Administration has brought a new meaning to the term "undocumented" by permitting illegal aliens to fly domestically, without ANY legal ID papers, for months, according to a ... Read More
Four people killed, two wounded in Australia hotel shooting
Chief Assignment Editor- June 4, 2019 21:58At least four people were killed and one injured in the hotel attack in the city of Darwin in northern Australia. The attack took place at five different locations across ... Read More
Organizing the rape of children: A lucrative tourism business for former Israeli soldier
Juergen T Steinmetz- May 26, 2019 06:25Tourists travel to Colombia often loo0king for drugs and to rape children. This is a very dark side of tourism. Sexual exploitation and trafficking of children is widespread in many ... Read More
Myanmar Tourism Police arrests accused Sri Lanka Terror Suspect
Juergen T Steinmetz- May 24, 2019 04:16Myanmar Tourist Police arrested a Sri Lankan man Thursday afternoon. The tourist from Sri Lanka is accused to have connections with those involved in the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka ... Read More
DNA test shows 30% of migrants detained at US border not related to ‘their’ children
Chief Assignment Editor- May 20, 2019 18:10DNA tests of migrant children arrested at the US-Mexico border with their families have revealed the minors were not related to the adults accompanying them. In a pilot program conducted ... Read More
Sri Lanka bans all face coverings after Islamic terrorists kill 253 people in Easter attacks
Chief Assignment Editor- April 29, 2019 18:40Under a state of emergency after a spate of suicide bombings last week, Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on all forms of face coverings. The measure is aimed at ... Read More
Explosions rock Sri Lankan town as police hunt for Islamic terrorists behind Easter bombings
Chief Assignment Editor- April 26, 2019 15:38Three explosions have reportedly rocked a city on Sri Lanka’s eastern seaboard as the police and the army carry out searches targeting suspects from last weekend’s deadly bombings. The explosions ... Read More
UK Foreign Office urged to update UAE travel warnings
Chief Assignment Editor- April 12, 2019 13:20British legal group Detained in Dubai has urged the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to update its UAE travel warnings to UK tourists in an open letter penned by ... Read More
UNESCO, African Union and Ethiopia Role Model on World Press Freedom?
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 29, 2019 09:15Ethiopian Airlines, has been chosen as the Official Carrier for the 2019 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference to be held in Addis Ababa from May 1-3, 2019. This conference ... Read More
Attention Airport Officials: Naked man on the tarmac
editor- March 27, 2019 21:08Is this the new way to fly? Naked? A male passenger dressed only in his birthday suit was spotted trying to board his flight completely naked while walking across the ... Read More
“It’s easier to fly nude”: Naked man attempts to board plane in Moscow airport
Chief Assignment Editor- March 23, 2019 17:31A man was filmed trying to board a plane to Crimea in a Moscow airport after stripping in public. He stood in the line for the ticket check fully nude, ... Read More
26 killed, dozens injured in China tour bus disaster
Chief Assignment Editor- March 23, 2019 01:14According to Hunan provincial officials and local police, 26 people were killed and 28 injured after a tour bus caught fire on a highway in central China’s province. The provincial ... Read More
Brazil’s former president Michel Temer arrested
Chief Assignment Editor- March 21, 2019 17:17Brazil’s former president Michel Temer has been arrested as part of a sweeping anti-corruption probe, media reports say. Temer took the office in 2016 after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff ... Read More
In bizarre tit-for-tat, Ukraine detains, denies entry to Israeli tourists
Chief Assignment Editor- February 16, 2019 16:40Thirty-five Israeli tourists were detained at Ukraine's Kiev Airport and barred from entering the country on Friday. The incident appears to be a some sort of a tit-for-tat on Ukraine ... Read More
US Travel Advisory ups warning level for travel to Turkey
editor- February 16, 2019 02:38The U.S. Travel Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, today issued a "Level 3: Reconsider Travel" advisory for Turkey due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions with some areas having ... Read More
Why does the European Union Parliament condemn Zimbabwe again?
Juergen T Steinmetz- February 14, 2019 23:36The European Union yesterday renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe after condemning the chaotic situation of human right abuses in that Southern African country. Here is what the joint resolution by the ... Read More
‘Not terror-related’: Man with ‘knife’ arrested at Heathrow Airport
Chief Assignment Editor- February 3, 2019 17:23Armed police were called in after initial reports of man seen in possession of a knife at London’s major air hub, Heathrow Airport. The person was reportedly behaving in a ... Read More
Uganda officials bust major ivory and pangolin scales smuggling racket
Chief Assignment Editor- February 1, 2019 20:20Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has started reaping the results from the introduction of Non-intrusive Cargo Inspection (NII) scanning technology that this week, uncovered a major regional poaching racket. Officers at ... Read More
“Tour operator” fleeces US tourists of $20K, arrested by Uganda’s Tourism Police
Chief Assignment Editor- January 26, 2019 17:20Tourism Police on the morning of Friday, January 25, arrested a quack tour operator who had fleeced a family of American tourists that had paid for a 15-day safari in ... Read More
‘Attempted hijacking’: Aeroflot passenger demands to be flown to Afghanistan
Chief Assignment Editor- January 22, 2019 15:34Russian Aeroflot Flight SU1515 was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger attempted to hijack the aircraft, demanding that the plane be diverted to Afghanistan. Aeroflot Boeing 737 ... Read More
UK: EU citizens living in Britain must apply for ‘settled status’
Chief Assignment Editor- January 21, 2019 15:27Britain is rolling out a program to help register an estimated 3.5 million EU citizens living in the UK. The plan enters the test phase on Monday. EU nationals who ... Read More
Special Forces unit deployed after Cologne train station shooting
Chief Assignment Editor- January 4, 2019 18:10German police have deployed a Special Forces unit to central Cologne following a shooting incident that took place near the central railway station. At least one person found in possession ... Read More
Updated US Travel Advisory for China: Will China tourism officials retaliate?
Juergen T Steinmetz- January 3, 2019 21:45Every day 8000 Chinese tourists enter the United States, and every day an average of 5000 American tourists enter China. Americans should exercise increased caution in China due to arbitrary enforcement ... Read More
Manchester police: New Year’s Eve train station stabbing spree “terrorist attack”
Chief Assignment Editor- January 1, 2019 15:51British police say that the stabbing spree which occurred in Manchester on New Year’s Eve is being investigated as terror-related attack. Three people - including a police officer - have ... Read More
Act of terror in Tokyo Shinjuku tourist area during New Years celebration
Juergen T Steinmetz- January 1, 2019 08:38New Years in Tokyo turned violent when a car slammed into crowds who were celebrating New Year early on Jan. 1. leaving 9 injured. The attack took place in a ... Read More
American tourist arrested in Moscow ‘on suspicion of espionage’
Chief Assignment Editor- December 31, 2018 16:30Public relations center of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor to the KGB, said on Monday that FSB has detained US citizen in Moscow 'on suspicion of ... Read More
Hannover Airport on lockdown, flights suspended after car-ramming attack
Chief Assignment Editor- December 29, 2018 19:47Germany's Hannover Airport has been shut down by German police, who were sweeping security areas after a man rammed through a gate in a vehicle and drove on the tarmac, ... Read More
Tourists killed and beheaded in terror attack in Morocco: Arrests made
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 25, 2018 21:36The arrests were made in several cities in the kingdom, bringing to 18 the number of people detained over the double-murder, said Abdelhak Khiam, head of Morocco's central office for judicial investigation. Read More
8 killed, 22 injured: Hijacked bus plows into crowd in Longyan, China
Chief Assignment Editor- December 25, 2018 17:21A man has hijacked a bus and drove it into a crowd of people in China’s city of Longyan, killing 8 people and injuring 22 others. The attacker is believed ... Read More
Thailand Tourism Safety Image in question?
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 23, 2018 10:53A conflict between FIFA, Australia, and Bahrain on a human rights and an asylum case for involving a pro football star Hakeem AlAraibi wanted by his home country Bahrain may ... Read More
Vienna restaurant shooting leaves 1 person dead, 1 injured
Chief Assignment Editor- December 21, 2018 14:54One person has been killed and one injured in a shootout at a popular tourist restaurant in the Austrian capital’s historic center. It's yet unclear who is behind the incident ... Read More
Avoiding dangerous vacations 2018
Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson- September 19, 2018 21:27This is the sixth year that we have posted dangerous vacations destination information collected from news articles and reported law cases. Read More
The history of the SMS Cormoran II
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 30, 2017 12:17Tamuning, Guam – On Friday, April 7, 2017, the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) will commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the scuttling of the SMS Cormoran II. Read More
Florida pilot completes record-setting solo around-the-world flight
editor- September 21, 2016 03:55ADDISON, TX - West Palm Beach-based flight instructor Zheng “Julie" Wang landed her single piston-engine propeller aircraft at Addison Airport in Dallas, returning to the place from which she depart Read More
United pilot detained for dropping his pants at Rio airport
editor- June 28, 2010 03:36SAO PAULO - A United Airlines pilot was briefly detained in Brazil after lowering his pants during a security screening at the international airport in Rio de Janeiro, police said ... Read More