FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German federal police said on Monday they were stepping up European cross-border cooperation to fight Vietnamese human trafficking, after Berlin became a key hub in a network of exploitation in service industries.
Lured by jobs in Europe, Vietnamese migrants are smuggled illegally often through China or Russia, Carsten Moritz, head of the human trafficking unit of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), told public broadcaster RBB. Arrivals from Vietnam frequently work under "exploitative conditions" to pay off smuggling debts, which cost around 10,000 to 20,000 euros ($12,000 to $24,000) per person.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani exchange signed agreements....
Former US president Donald Trump awaits opening arguments in his New York 'hush money' trial. — AFP NEW YORK: New...
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Ukrainian forces targeting a Russian position in the Kharkiv region on Sunday. — TassMOSCOW: Russia said on Monday...
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Taiwan's eastern Hualien region was also the epicentre of a magnitude-7.4 quake in April 3, which caused landslides...
