Visa joins MasterCard, AmEx in ending use for Backpage sex ads

Last Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2015, 03:47

Visa Inc said on Wednesday it is joining MasterCard Inc and American Express Co in barring its credit cards from being used to pay for ads on Backpage.com following a request from a Chicago sheriff who said the site is used by sex traffickers.

Villagers kill five suspected drug traffickers in Mexico

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 09:15

Five suspected members of a drug cartel were gunned down over the weekend by vigilantes in the Mexican state of Michoacan, prosecutors said.

Three drug traffickers executed in China

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 22:09

Three drug traffickers were on Tuesday executed in China while two others were given death sentence, the state media reported.

BSF rescues minor Bangladeshi girl from trafficker

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 23:24

A minor Bangladeshi girl has been rescued by BSF troops from the clutches of human traffickers in lower Assam`s Dhubri district along the Indo-Bangladesh border.

BSF rescues minor Bangladeshi girl from traffickers

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 20:19

A minor Bangladeshi girl has been rescued by BSF troops from the clutches of human traffickers in lower Assam`s Dhubri district along the Indo-Bangladesh border.

Pakistani traffickers stealing British data

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 14:25

Human traffickers in Pakistan are intercepting information from British-Pakistanis to forge documents to help illegal migrants settle in Britain, a daily said Tuesday.

‘B’deshi girls trafficked under honeymoon cover’

Last Updated: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 21:18

70 women and children along the Indo-Bangla borders from human traffickers in the past three months.

Keep off Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham areas: UN

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 22:34

Hamid Ghodse said the situations in the three cities were comparable to parts of Brazil & Mexico ruled by drug cartels.

‘Conviction of human traffickers very low’

Last Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 20:45

The number of convictions secured has remained dismally low, a senior Home Ministry official said.

Venezuela to send drug kingpin to US - Report

Last Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 14:31

Venezuela will extradite one of the region`s most-wanted drug traffickers to the United States.

UP: Child trafficker held, eight kids rescued

Last Updated: Monday, October 24, 2011, 15:20

A man from Bihar was arrested and eight children, being taken to Rajasthan to work as labourers, were rescued from a train in Uttar Pradesh`s Mirzapur district, police said Monday.