7 nations added to trafficking blacklist
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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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MADRID, Feb 13  (IPS) - Spain is among the countries most heavily affected  by human trafficking, yet it has still not signed the Council of  Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings,  although the socialist government has promised to do so.
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Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS - Russia introduced a draft resolution Monday calling for a new list of suspects who would be subject to extradition in a stepped-up global campaign against terrorism. China welcomed it but Pakistan and other Security Council members eyed the proposal with caution...
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Police say Russian diplomatic mission gets pimping money Helsinki police say that a woman renting out apartments owned by the Russian trade delegation in Finland to prostitutes has benefitted the diplomats at ...
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Better data is needed to determine the magnitude of human trafficking and some countries are not taking the problem as seriously as they should be, the U.N.'s top anti-crime official said Tuesday.
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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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Transparency International names Burma and Somalia as the most corrupt countries in its 2007 rankings
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Austria uncovers a child pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects in 77 countries, authorities say.
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Federal authorities on Thursday indicted 19 people in the United States and abroad on charges related to a Web site investigators claimed was one of the largest online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information and credit cards.
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The United Nations on Monday added 14 pesticides and chemicals, including lead additive for petrol, to a growing list of toxic substances in which trade is restricted.
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Ireland will block calls to 13 countries, most of them tiny islands in the Pacific, to crack down on a new scam in which internet users&#39; log-on connections are secretly diverted through rip-off telephone numbers.
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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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World's worst-polluted areas span seven countries and affect the health of roughly 12 million people, says environmental group.
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Linked in the past to sex crimes in East Timor, and prostitution in Cambodia and Kosovo, U.N. peacekeepers have now been accused of sexually abusing the very population they were deployed to protect in Congo.
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A United Nations convention that brings together governments in the fight against doping has approved the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) list of prohibited substances, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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U.S. authorities have added Chinese toothpaste to their list of imports from that country to undergo tests for chemical contamination.