Crime Gangs Turn to Women Trafficking -Interpol
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CANCUN, Mexico  - International smugglers of  weapons and drugs are increasingly trafficking women from  Africa, Latin America and Asia to developed countries where  they are duped into working as prostitutes, Interpol said on  Wednesday.
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Increased security on the U.S.-Mexican   border is turning human smuggling into a multi-billion dollar   criminal industry and attracting violent gangs with ties to   Mexican drug cartels, authorities say.
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AK-47 rifles, flashy cars and cowboy hats show the violent life of Mexican drug smugglers in the region bordering the United States, which "guerrilla artist" Watchavato has turned into a chic form of street art.
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Hundreds of police have been suspended in a bid to stem trafficking-related corruption.
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Tracking down the gang behind the theft of 22 million pounds from a bank in Belfast will be tough given the professional nature of the crime, police say.
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LONDON - It wasn't your typical highspeed chase. A pedicab operator was pressed into action by two policewomen trying to nab a fugitive last Friday.
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The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact
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Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.
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A resurgent Red Brigade group smashed by police earlier this week had links to organised crime, Interior Minister Antonio Amato told parliament Wednesday.Comment
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In a risky move that will determine the security of the country, U.N. forces are taking on the street gangs that have run Haiti for years.
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Some police may have been accomplices in a decade-long string of women's slayings in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, a federal official said, citing the case of an ex-officer who recruited young girls to a prostitution ring.
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A series of police raids in southern England target a Â£100m cocaine and cannabis trafficking gang.
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Marauding drug gangs in a violent  Mexican border city have turned to kidnapping U.S. citizens for  ransom as they seek to diversify their criminal activities, the  U.S. government warned on Friday.
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Chinese police have intensified a crackdown on trafficking of women and children as increasing numbers of females are sold into marriage in areas where gender imbalances are growing, state press said.
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Seventeen Mexican drug agents were picked up last week for alleged involvement in trafficking in Canc&#250;n.
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Authorities in Italy and the United States conducted raids Thursday targeting dozens of alleged members of Mafia clans who controlled drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic, officials said.