Venezuela seizes 2.5 tons of cocaine
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Venezuelan authorities seized 2.5 tons of cocaine bound for Africa and arrested nine suspects including four federal police officers and a U.S. citizen, the military said Sunday.
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Heroin with an estimated street value of Â£12.5m is seized in a raid in the east end of Glasgow.
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A police operation led to pounds 100,000 of cocaine being seized yesterday.   Police launched the operation on Tuesday afternoon after receiving information.
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A haul of cocaine worth Â£135m is seized by police off the south-west coast of Ireland.
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By Robin Emmott LIMA, Peru  - Colombia's U.S.-backed eradicationof coca, the raw material for cocaine, is driving drugtraffickers into neighboring Peru and pushing up drugproduction there despite a campaign to cut coca-growing areas,Peru's anti-drugs agency said on Friday.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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BOGOTA - Soldiers swarmed a farm yesterday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers, who was hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medell&#xED;n cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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About 2.5 tonnes of cocaine - Liberia's largest ever haul - is seized from a ship off the Atlantic coast.
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to its border with Colombia to crack down on smuggling amid a bitter feud between the two countries' governments.
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An empty sailing boat with 1.2 tons of cocaine is found in Senegal - the latest seizure in West Africa.
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More than three tons of pure cocaine is seized on a UK-flagged yacht off the Canary Islands, police say.
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Sydney (VNA) - The Australian police have cracked a transnational drug ring and seized 820kg of drugs. The police on Saturday confiscated 115kg of MDMA - the pure form of ecstasy - and three million ecstasy
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U.S. agents smashed a Mexican drug trafficking network by arresting more than 400 people and seizing over 18 tonnes of narcotics, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Backed by 4,000 police officers, the Colombian government seized control of the nation's largest pharmacy chain on Friday, saying its creation and expansion had been funded by cocaine trafficking.
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LIMA, Peru  - Hundreds of farmers seized a  hydroelectric plant in southern Peru on Tuesday to protest  government coca eradication efforts after a clash with police  in which two people died and 10 were hurt, officials said.
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Venezuela expects trade with Colombia to reach $2.5 billion this year, a 73 percent increase over 2003, Venezuela's ambassador to Colombia said Monday.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Costa Rican authorities seized almost two tonnes of cocaine on two speed boats on Monday, the latest capture in a series of large, U.S.-backed drug operations in the Central American country.