Smugglers exploit country for exports
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CARACAS - Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, counternarcotics officials said. Up to 220 tons of cocaine, a third of what Colombia produces, now pass through Venezuela each year. Officials said the Bush administration's poor relations with Venezuela ...
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According to "Tehran Times", some 37,971 tons of goods, valued at $26.1 million dollars, was exported from this north-central Iranian province during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-November 21). This showed 43% increase in weight compared to the same period last year.
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These days, capital and goods cross borders with ease. Lant Pritchett says that if the developing worldâs workers could do the same, everyone would benefit.
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"Trade" is about the kidnapping and selling of girls and boys into sex slavery, a crime that goes on all over the world &#151; including the United States, you may be surprised to learn.
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Tag management system aims to help goods cross borders freely--but could get tangled in a legal tussle over drug tracking.
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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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Banlao, where neighboring Myanmar looms visible in the distance, has become a center of heroin trafficking.
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BANGKOK : The trade in some of the world&#39;s rarest species from the fearsome great white shark to the delicate orchid will be scrutinised here from Saturday accompanied by demands for tougher action against smugglers.
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Risks have been rewarded by diving into Bangladesh, Ukraine, and other small developing nations.
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Shipped halfway across the world to Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals who have poached the mollusc almost to extinction.
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Embraced by governments hungry for the cash of multinational firms, the world's growing number of special export zones are havens of exploitation for millions of workers, union leaders say.
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It could be ivory concealed in a container, cans of caviar in a suitcase or baby chimpanzees in a crate. The smuggling of wildlife goods is a low-risk, high-profit enterprise proving increasingly attractive to crime syndicates.
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HARIPUR, Pakistan -- Every day, Taj Mohammed Abbasi wheels his cart through dusty streets, selling the oranges, guavas and litchis that are the pride of this rural outpost in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills.
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impoverished inhabitants of the Niger delta, which pumps all the nation&#39;s oil. The government says he. is just a bandit fighting for control of smuggling routes used by oil thieves.
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Criminals and opportunists are reported to be trying to cash in on the tsunami victims' misfortune.
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Industrial fishing from Europe is crippling coastal African economies and creating a surge of illegal migrants.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Pakistani peacekeepers serving under the U.N. flag "aided and abetted" a network of Kenyan businessmen smuggling gold from a mine in eastern Congo, providing them with food, housing, transportation and security, according to the findings of a confidential U.N. investigation.