International Crime News

Here's crime news taking place in foreign countries that I thought you may find interesting. I've separated the international news into geographical regions to make locating articles a bit easier. Check back often for updates. Also, you locate an interesting news article please contact meand maybe I'll add it to my site.

Caribbean

• Crime: the uninvited guest in the Turks and Caicos
• 2 Missing Brown Students Found Safe In Trinidad
• Crime and the Caribbean
• Tourism crime underscores Caribbean weaknesses
• Murders overshadow dropping crime rate
• Focus on the Causes of Crime

Latin America

• Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists
• Students Robbed but Unharmed in Ecuador
• Crime stats keep on climbing
• Rio embarrassed by surge in Carnival crime against tourists
• Cancún violence overshadows spring break
• American Man Stabbed 18 Times In Ecuador
• Ecuador: Everything old is new again in Quito
• Alleged tourist bandits arrested, set free
• Violent crime wave sweeps Mexico

Europe

• Paralysed tourist 'happy to be back'
• Crime targets: US tourists have 113 passports stolen in a year
• Prague cops set up special unit for tourists
• Violence rise 'due to downturn'
• Attacks on Foreign Tourists Stir Crime Debate in Italy
• British tourists take five million trips to unsafe countries
• Tourists risk card theft
• Czechs refute U.S. tourism report

Africa

• Madibeng condemns burglary at Oberon
• US Captain Held Hostage By Somali Pirates
• Troops rescue Egypt tourists
• French commandos rescue tourists from Somali pirates
• Uganda: S. Western Files 243 Murders in 7 Months
• Fashola: Crime Rate’s Reducing in Lagos

Asia

• 200 kidnapped in Mindanao since 2003
• U.S. Embassay Warns American Tourists Of Spiked Drinks In Tokyo Bars
• Crime rate may rise this year: Police
• Night of Horror and Carnage in Mumbai, India Terrorist Attack
• Security alert in Delhi-bound trains
• BA suspends all flights to Pakistan
• Spurt in shootouts in Delhi, commissioner says situation under control
• Jump in number of offenders, even from well-off families

Middle East

• Crime drops by one-fifth
• Deputy police chief says force will strive to keep Dubai crime-free