'Black list' of Afghan antiquities seeks to halt illegal trade
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The International Council of Museums published a &quot;black list&quot; of archaeological treasures illegally smuggled out of Afghanistan, in a bid to stifle trade in the stolen antiquities.
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Asia dominated a US blacklist of alleged top religious freedom violators including China, North Korea, Myanmar and Vietnam, classified as &quot;countries of particular concern&quot; in the State Department's annual report on international religious freedom.
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Carriers in Indonesia, Russia and Africa on no-fly list in crackdown on 'flying coffins'.
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Find out what some suppliers are doing to stem the global flow of "blood diamonds"&#8212;gems mined and sold illegally to fuel deadly rebel conflicts.
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Afghanistanâs President Hamid Karzai has declared a âholy warâ on Afghanistanâs runaway narcotics industry, calling for international aid to counter a threat he said was more dangerous than any his country has faced in more than 20 years of war.
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural  treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after  decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty  crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said  a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration yesterday added seven nations, including several key US allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist for failing to halt what it called the scourge of "modern-day slavery."
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has declared a holy war on the drugs trade gripping his war-shattered country, which produces nearly nine-tenths of the world&#39;s opium.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's criminal underworld has compromised key government officials who protect drug traffickers, allowing a flourishing opium trade that will not be stamped out for a generation, a UN report released yesterday said.
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Washington announces a major new initiative to try to tackle the production of illegal drugs in Afghanistan.
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Federal authorities say that an antiquities dealer in California participated in the illegal importation and sale of antiquities.
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Human rights organizations and the diamond industry are working on ways to keep conflict diamonds&#151;those sold to fund armed conflict&#151;off the international market.
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Afghanistan could be "taken down" by its booming illegal drug trade, a senior U.S. anti-narcotics official warned Saturday, ahead of the scheduled release of U.N. opium crop data expected to show a massive increase in cultivation this year.
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Italy has netted smugglers of illicit wildlife products by using a guide to help recognize traditional Asian medicine, a U.N. conference heard Tuesday.
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Italy and the Princeton University Art Museum have reached a deal to return some artifacts Rome says were smuggled out of the country, the latest chapter in Italy's campaign to crack down on the illegal antiquities market.
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Addis Ababa - Ethiopian campaigners pressed British Prime Minister Tony Blair to return sacred Ethiopian objects and ancient artefacts that were looted by British troops more than a century ago.
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More than 22,000 antiquities survived 25 years of turmoil in Afghanistan in a secret vault. The discovery that they are safe and intact is a ray of hope in the quest to restore Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. Photo gallery.