N Korean Drug-Smugglers Extradited to Bulgaria
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Politics: 9 December 2004, Thursday. The North Korean diplomats who were seized by Turkish police while smuggling 780,000 pills of captagon in their diplomatic car have been extradited from Istanbul to Sofia.
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Cuba will deport reputed drug kingpin Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to Colombia, which plans to extradite him to the United States, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Six medics imprisoned in Libya for infecting children with HIV are on their way to Bulgaria, French officials say.
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One was held on suspicion of leaking state secrets to foreigners. Another was accused of corruption, detained for five months and then released without charge.
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About 45 suspected North Koreans  climbed over a wall into the Canadian embassy in Beijing on  Wednesday, the latest in a rash of diplomatic mission break-ins  by people seeking asylum outside the isolated Communist  country.
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France on Friday extradited to Bulgaria Vasil Kachikov, a Bulgarian national suspected of complicity in the assassination of one of his country's underworld bosses in Amsterdam about a year ago.
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Police in eastern Bulgaria have arrested two men accused of running an illegal channel for trafficking and selling babies to childless families in neighboring Greece.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, March 13 Kyodo - The Tokyo District Court sentenced a pleasure boat operator to 13 years in prison Tuesday for smuggling a large amount of amphetamine stimulant drugs from North Korea in 2002 in conspiracy with accomplices.
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Chinese police are reported to have arrested 60 North Korean refugees in raids on safe houses in Beijing.
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Libya claimed to have repatriated up to 40,000 illegal immigrants and arrested several people traffickers as the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi arrived in the capital Tripoli yesterday
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Police at the Bulgarian-Serb border on Monday arrested a Bulgarian national after customs officials found a cache of 6 kilograms (13.2 pounds) of heroin in his car, the Focus news agency reported.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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Chinese authorities are reported to have detained at least 60 people, believed to be North Korean asylum seekers, who tried to enter the South Korean consulate in Beijing.
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Anna Zarkova is an investigative journalist who was attacked with acid six years ago for covering organized crime, including forced prostitution and trafficking networks in Bulgaria.
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A reputed drug kingpin sought by the United States has been deported to Colombia, Cuba's government said Thursday. Colombia has said it will extradite Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to the U.S.
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British officials are trying to get two girls suspected of drug smuggling in Africa moved to better accommodation.
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A man and woman arrested in connection with an international illegal drugs inquiry face extradition proceedings.