Smuggling

Smuggling

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  Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction

  Dozens of Egyptian troops and armored vehicles moved into Sinai Monday as the government beefed up security in the volatile peninsula after the ... 

• Official: 10 killed in explosion in Turkey

  Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people. The governor's office in Hatay province said ... 

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  Nigeria judge: Iranian, colleague smuggled weapons

  An Iranian and his Nigerian accomplice were sentenced to five years in prison Monday over a plot they orchestrated to smuggle a shipment of ... 

• Spanish, British police bust smugglers, arrest 9

  Spanish police working with Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency have arrested nine suspects in an investigation targeting criminals who allegedly ... 

• Turkey: US man gets suspended smuggling sentence

  A lawyer says an American tourist who picked up stones during a beach holiday in Turkey has received a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to ... 

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  NKorea: Detained American smuggled in propaganda

  North Korea delivered its most in-depth account yet of the case against a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor, accusing him late ... 

• EU in Kosovo arrests suspected Balkan drug lord

  EU authorities intervened late Tuesday to arrest an ethnic Albanian suspected of running a major cocaine and heroin smuggling network from Sarajevo, ... 

• Kosovo police arrest suspected drugs kingpin

  Kosovo police have arrested a suspected Balkan drug kingpin who is wanted on an international arrest warrant and blacklisted by U.S. authorities. 

• Jet ski drug smugglers busted in Spain

  A gang that allegedly used jet skis and boats to smuggle drugs into Spain through the country's southern coast has been busted, with police making 30 ... 

• EU in Kosovo launches new organ trafficking probe

  A European Union prosecutor in Kosovo says a new probe into illegal organ trafficking has begun just days after five people were found guilty of ... 

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  Kosovo: 3 get jail time in organ trafficking case

  A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running ... 

• Alleged cocaine smuggler freed by Dutch court

  A Dutch court has ordered a man convicted of smuggling 1,675 kilograms (3,692 pounds) of cocaine into the Netherlands freed from prison. The man, a ... 

• Greece: Injured fruit pickers get state protection

  A Supreme Court prosecutor in Greece has ordered that 35 immigrant strawberry pickers, most of whom were injured in a shooting last week, will be ... 

• Kidnappers release Bulgarian mobster's daughter

  Police say that the daughter of a Bulgarian mobster has been released after being abducted by unknown kidnappers for 47 days. Evelin Banev's daughter ... 

• US tourist faces trial in Turkey over 'stones'

  An American tourist who collected stones during a six-day beach holiday with his wife was briefly detained in Turkey and faces trial for attempting ... 

• Greece charges German with smuggling silver

  A German man has been charged with trying to smuggle hundreds of pounds of silver out of Greece, part of a crackdown on the pawnbroker trade ... 

• Mali mayor accused of drug trafficking arrested

  Authorities have arrested a mayor in northeastern Mali on drug trafficking charges three years after a plane full of cocaine landed near his town, ... 

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  Indonesia court upholds death sentence for Briton

  An Indonesian court upheld a death sentence for a British woman convicted of smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine onto the resort island of Bali, ... 

• Suspects in Africa drug trade held in NY for trial

  A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine trade was ...