December 6, 2023
Belgium’s largest prison is reeling from a wild sex scandal that accused guards and staffers of organizing jacuzzi orgy parties and trading colorful bracelets to determine their sex partners, a local report detailed. Ten guards and staffers at the Lantin Prison, located near the city of Liège, have come under fire for allegedly hosting sex
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Scuffles erupted at one of Finland’s border crossings with Russia on Friday after 163 migrants riding bicycles attempted to seek asylum there. ADVERTISEMENT Their attempt came just hours before four crossing points along Finland’s long border with Russia were due to be closed. Helsinki wants stop a recent flow of Middle Eastern and African migrants
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A flight attendant was arrested in Japan after allegedly shoplifting from a store and biting a security guard when she was confronted over the reported theft, local media reports. Singapore Airlines flight attendant Bai Peixuan, 33, was arrested on Nov. 6 in Japan’s Narita, Chiba prefecture, after allegedly stealing six items from a shop in
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OSLO — Inside Halden Fengsel, a high-security prison in Norway, inmates choose their own clothing. Knockoff track suits from designer brands such as Karl Lagerfeld are favored. They buy fresh produce from their well-stocked grocery store and chop onions with knives from their shared kitchens. They play in bands and walk in the woods and pray
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Updated: 01/10/2023 – 13:18 A cat wearing a black-and-yellow security vest strolls nonchalantly past security guards lined outside a Philippine office building waiting to receive instructions for their shift. A cat wearing a black-and-yellow security vest strolls nonchalantly past security guards lined outside a Philippine office building waiting to receive instructions for their shift. Conan,
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While the cats lack the security skills of dogs, their cuteness and company have endeared them to bored guards working 12-hour shifts. A cat wearing a black-and-yellow security vest strolls nonchalantly past security guards lined up outside a Philippine office building waiting to receive instructions for their shift. Conan, a six-month-old stray, joined the security
READ MOREParis Olympics organizers and their partners set up a giant job fair on Tuesday meant to help fill about 16,000 vacancies in key sectors including catering, security, transport and cleaning, 10 months before the opening of the Games. About 50 companies are now recruiting in various fields to be able to welcome millions of spectators
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Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American country. The country’s corrections system, the National
READ MOREEcuador’s capital Quito was rocked by attacks with grenades and two car bombs overnight, followed hours later by inmates in six prisons taking hostage 57 prison guards and police officers on Thursday, officials said. The wave of attacks was an apparent show of force by organized crime gangs that claimed no victims, while the uprising
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Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. CNN — Saudi border guards killed “hundreds” of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023, Human Rights Watch alleged in
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