Topic: Suriname
Police in Suriname arrested 15 more suspects Monday as they searched for anti-migrant rioters accused of rape, arson and looting in an explosion of violence that sent hundreds fleeing for their lives from a border town. At least 35 men are already in custody, but Brazilian migrants who fled the ...
At least seven foreign migrants are dead and hundreds more homeless after rioting and attacks against migrant workers in Suriname left a border town in ashes, a Brazilian priest aiding victims said Sunday. The Rev. Jose Vergilio said the riots in the town of Albina, which began late ...
The murder trial of a former South American dictator resumed Tuesday after a monthlong delay, with a witness placing him at the scene where 15 political opponents were executed 27 years ago. Sali Blik, a former cameraman for a state-owned television station, testified that he saw ...
Dutch police have arrested two people at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport for allegedly having hidden three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of cocaine in sandwiches, authorities said Thursday. Inspectors found the drugs last week in 33 sandwiches in the luggage of the two, a 30-year-old man from Suriname and a Dutch woman, 56. "With the unpacking of the sandwiches ... it transpired ...
