Smuggling

Foreign Leader Joins Battle Over Dinosaur Skeleton

Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Smuggling, T-Rex, Video, Prehistoric Animals, Paleontology, Auction, Extinct Species, Tyrannosaurus Skeleton, Dinosaurs, Mongolia, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/24/2012 08:12 AM EDT on LiveScience A fossilized dinosaur that was once at the top of i...

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U.S. and Rwanda Caught With Diplomatic Pants Down in Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.05.2012

Diplomacy is one thing; enabling is another. It seems Rwanda and the United States have been caught with their diplomatic pants down. Congolese and i...

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Borders Were Made To Be Crossed

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Drc, Smuggling, Border, Goma, Zaire, Argentina, Graham Greene, Cuidad Del Este, Gisenyi, Brazil, Passport, Congo, Paraguay, Rwanda, Travel News

Cuidad del Este is a bustling city on the Paraguayan side of the Rio Parana. It forms the triple frontier with Brazil and Argentina, but it couldn't be more different from its orderly neighbors.

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Soon Your Cigarettes May Be Traced

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Video, Smuggling, Tobacco Smuggling, 2005 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Reuters, World Health Organisation, Big Tabacco, Who, Tobacco, Corporate Accountability International, Business News

* WHO accord would set up track and tracing system for cigarettes * Smuggling robs states of up to $50 bln in lost taxes annually ...

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UN Implicates Obama Donor in Congo Gold Smuggling Scheme

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Campaign Donations, Super Pac, Bosco Ntanganda, Smuggling, Conflict Minerals, Gold, UN Security Council, Atrocity, Barack Obama, Kase, Lawal, Actpn, A Woman Among Warlords, Human Rights Watch, Video, World News

The United Nations' accusations against Kase Lawal and CAMAC deserve a complete investigation. Congressional hearings might be a good place to begin.

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Alleged Mastermind Of Human Smuggling Ring Charged In N.Y.

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Armchair Detective, Human Smuggling, Smuggling, Trafficking, Kosovo, Deme Nikqi, Organized Crime, Deme Nikqi Arrested, Deme Nikqi Huffington Post, New York, Human Trafficking, Crime News

NEW YORK -- The reputed mastermind of a migrant smuggling ring that allegedly smuggled hundreds of undocumented immigrants from Eastern Europe into th...

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'Massive' Smuggling Ring Dismantled In Arizona

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Video, Smuggling, Marijuana, Mexico, Operation Pipeline Express, Drugs, Heroin, Arizona, Latino Politics, US-Mexico Border, Ice, Sinaloa Cartel, Cocaine, Latino Voices News

PHOENIX — Arizona authorities have disrupted a Mexican drug cartel's distribution network, arresting dozens of smugglers in dismantling a ring r...

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LOOK: $200,000 Of Cocaine In Smuggler's Stomach

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: X-Rays, Smuggling, Cocaine Stomach X-Ray, Video, Cocaine Stomach Photo, Cocaine Smuggling, Drug Smuggling, International Drug Trafficking, Cocaine, Weird News News

A 20-year-old Irishman had a $200,000 lunch -- and now he might have to pay. Security personal at a Sao Paulo, Brazil airport on Monday detained a ...

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Pilot Detained For Smuggling 93 Pounds Of Coke

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Rubén García GarcíA, Pilot Smuggling, Pilot Arrested, Global Pulse, Spain, Aeromexico, Ruben Garcia Garcia Aeromexico, Ruben Garcia Garcia, Drug Smuggling, Travel News

MEXICO CITY -- Spanish authorities have detained a Mexican airline pilot suspected of smuggling more than 90 pounds of cocaine into the European count...

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Art Dealer Arrested For Smuggling Ivory

AP | By MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Government, Victor Gordon, Smuggling, Art, Ivory, Victor Gordon Ivory Smuggling, Victor Gordon Ivory, Crime, Federal Government, Africa, Arrest, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA -- An art store owner surrendered Tuesday on charges he smuggled one ton of banned African elephant ivory into the United States. Victor...

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Honduras Catches Narco-Sub Smuggling Cocaine

AP | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Honduras, Drugs, Smuggling, Submarine, Narcotics, Narco Sub, Drug Smuggling, World News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A Honduran patrol boat has located a semi-submersible craft used by drug traffickers to carry cocaine. Five crew members have...

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Make the Punishment Fit the Nuclear Crime

Emma Belcher | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Nuclear Proliferation, Republic of Georgia, North Korea Nuclear Program, Armenians, Georgia, Myanmar, Heu, World News

Countries must increase the penalty for all forms of nuclear smuggling, including small quantities and scams. Surely nuclear smuggling deserves punishment befitting the gravity of the crime.

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Customs And Border Protection Confiscates Iguana Meat Near San Diego

The Huffington Post | Eliza Fisher | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Illegal-Meat, Customs and Border Protection, Smuggling, Otay-Mesa, US-Mexico Border, Border Patrol, Iguanas, Los Angeles News

The US Customs and Border Protection released a statement today announcing that its officers confiscated 159 pounds of smuggled iguana meat at the bo...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Djo Tunda Wa Munga on Viva Riva!

Dan Persons | Posted 08.10.2011

Viva Riva! is the first film out of the Congo to get U.S. distribution, and director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made it a hell of an introduction.

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Man Swallows 2,000 Diamonds In Condoms

Thaindian.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diamond Smuggling, Smuggling, Mohammed Shakif Diamonds, Mohammed Shakif, Sri Lanka Diamonds, Sri Lanka, World News

A Sri Lankan Man, who had swallowed 2,060 diamonds worth up to Rs. 3 crore ($674,715 dollars) packed in several condoms, was arrested at an airport on...

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China Detains iPad-Smuggling Housewives

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ipad Smuggling, Smuggling, Apple, Hong Kong, China, Ipad, Technology News

Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city just across the border from Hong Kong, recently caught 14 housewives trying to carry 88 iPads a...

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The 10 Most Innovative Smuggling Schemes Foiled by the Feds (PHOTOS)

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Drug Smugglers, Ecstasy, Giant Squid, Crack Cocaine, Illegal Immigrants, Elmo, Viagra, Fbi, Hezbollah, Heroin, Dea, Beans, Slidepollajax, Cocaine, World News

I recently interviewed FBI agents who caught a couple smuggling funds to Hezbollah. The couple's method astonished me. As smuggling goes, however, it was pedestrian, compared to the following.

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Honey Laundering: U.S. Catches Execs Smuggling $40 Million Of Drug-Infused Honey

aolnews.com | Andrew Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Patrick Fitzgerald, Honey, Hong Kong, Food, Chinese-Honey, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Honey Sting, U.S. Attorney, China, Business News

U.S. consumers stand a better chance of buying honey free of drugs, chemicals and other illegal contaminants because investigators from several federa...

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U.S. Efforts Fail To Stem Flow Of Mexican Drug Money

washingtonpost.com | William Booth and Nick Miroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico Trafficking, Laredo Texas, Drug Money, Smuggling, Drug Sales, Texas, Mexico Drug Cartel, Money Smuggling, Drug Trafficking, Mexico Drug War, World News

LAREDO, TEX. - Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of...

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Nuclear Smuggling in the Former Soviet Union

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Proliferation, Smuggling, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Soviet Union, Countdown to Zero, World News

The Caucasus region has become a hotbed of illicit trafficking in all manner of goods, from the everyday and mundane to the highly dangerous.

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Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Laws, Illegal Immigration, Mexico, Agribusiness, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, Guns, Books News

Kelly Lytle Hernandez's in-depth study, Migra: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, is a thoroughly researched account of the discordant beginnings of the official U.S. Border Patrol.

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Authorities Seize 100-Foot Drug Smuggling Submarine

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecuador Drug Submarine, Smuggling, Colombia, Ecuador, Submarine, Drugs, War on Drugs, Dea, Drug Submaring, Cocaine, Drug Smuggling, Smuggling Submarine, World News

WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration said Saturday it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine. DEA offic...

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Arizona is Targeting the Wrong Criminal

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Labor, Smuggling, U.S.Business, Dhs, Mexico, Illegal Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Illegal Labor, Ice, Politics News

Blaming the victim (illegal immigrants) is nothing more than being unwilling to see who really is at fault: its US business hiring low cost labor and every day citizens who hire domestic help.

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Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Smuggling, Global Economy, Mexicans, Global Immigration, Coyote Capitalism, Illegal Immigration, Arizona, Migrants, Obama Immigration Reform, Jeffrey Kaye, Books News

While Moving Millions is well written, with excellent documentation, it is often challenging to navigate the context of the various episodes throughout the book.

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Dragon Fish Smuggling: Seven Charged With Smuggling Endangered Asian Arowana

AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dragon Fish, Smuggling, Endangered Species, Endangered Fish, Asian Arowana, Andree Gunawan, Fish and Wildlife, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted seven people on charges of illegally smuggling an endangered fish considered luck...

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