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Goods Flood Gaza’s Tunnels, Turning Border Area Into a Shopping Mecca
Oct 26 2009, Nahum Y

Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to $10,000.

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Dear Mr. Slim, Your services suck
Oscar, Oaxaca
Dear Mr. Carlos Slim Helu, Now that I finally have my phone and internet back I should probably apologize for unleashing the wrath and hunting/stalking skills of my...
telmex, carlos slim helu, telephone
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Mexico: Mayor, Murder, and Mayhem
Oscar, Oaxaca
As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
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Horrible scandal unveiled: 3 Mexican doctors accused of selling newborns
Shane, Mexico City
Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City,...
Scandle, Mexico doctors, Selling babies
made popular Nov 5 2009
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Mexico extradites criminal suspects to US
Global Report, Shimla
Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
extradition, Mexico Drug war, drug cartels
made popular Nov 5 2009
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Sea Cucumber Smugglers busted on the San Ysidro border
Oscar, Oaxaca
Have you any idea why we are searching your vehicle? Do you know why your American visa has been canceled? Do you understand why you’re being fined $15,264 U.S....
Mexico, San Ysidro border, united states
made popular Nov 4 2009
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In Mexico, fears of a 'lost generation'
Oscar, Oaxaca
The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
Mexico, Drug war, war on drugs
made popular Nov 3 2009
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Mexican Agriculture Official who 'cited drug lords as examples' resigns
Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from...
Mexico, Jeffrey max Jones, Sagarpa
made popular Nov 2 2009
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Mexico breaks yet another Record; for Murder
Oscar, Oaxaca
This year Mexico has been breaking records left and right. We’ve had the most mariachi players playing together, the largest number of couples kissing, the...
Ciudad Juarez, murders, drug war
made popular Nov 2 2009
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Mexican farm leader killed with 14 others on ranch
Aaron, Mexico City
Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug...
ranch in northern Mexico, drug gangs, Margarito Montes
made popular Oct 31 2009
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Soldiers find tunnel under US-Mexico border
Craig, Miami
MEXICAN soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the US and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army...
Mexican soldiers, tunnel, smuggle drugs
made popular Oct 29 2009
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Are Mexico's Pink Cabs really a sign of Female 'Oppression'?
Oscar, Oaxaca
You’ve all heard the news: Various cities in Mexico are kicking it up a notch with Pink Cabs created especially for women. “Estamos introduciendo a México...
Pink Taxis, Women only taxis, women safety
made popular Oct 26 2009
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Drug Violence makes Ciudad Juarez most violent
Global Report, Shimla
Ciudad Juarez has had almost 2000 homicides — almost all brutal executions — through mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period in 2008. There have...
Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, Sinaloa cartel
made popular Oct 24 2009
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U.S. Raid targets Mexican cartel; 303 arrested
Oscar, Oaxaca
U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel...
MEXICO, UNITED STATES, LA FAMILIA
made popular Oct 23 2009
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Family values of Mexico drug gang
G, Canberra
Murder, torture, steal then pray and donate to charity. The ‘family values’ of Mexican drug cartel La Familia.
drugs, cartel, family
made popular Oct 23 2009
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Mexico's Ciudad Juarez - where land is red with blood
Mark, Mexico City
The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say. Up to...
Mexico, War on drugs, Drugs
made popular Oct 22 2009
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Mexicans urged to treat water like 'One of the Family'
Oscar, Oaxaca
President Felipe Calderon and the National Water Commission recently launched a new campaign in dire effort to raise critical awareness in water conservation. Mexico...
Mexico, water conservation, Water shortage
made popular Oct 22 2009
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'Legalize it' - Mexico, Latin American countries move towards decriminalizing drugs
Kevin, Mexico City
After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke...
Mexico, Drugs, Decriminalizing drugs
made popular Oct 21 2009
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Mexico sets it's eye on the Moon and and yet another World Record.
Oscar, Oaxaca
It’s official. If there is a chance for entering or breaking a world record, Mexico will be there. That, my friends, you can take to the bank. Fourty two sites...
Mexico, guineas book of world's records, astronomy
made popular Oct 21 2009
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Illegal Alien Halloween Costume: Insensitive or just plain Fun?
Oscar, Oaxaca
Are you tired of the same old Halloween costumes? Ever wonder what it’s like to be an illegal alien? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of the following...
Illegal Alien Costume, target, Chirla
made popular Oct 21 2009
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Mexico's Women only pink taxis
Jacob, Mexico City
Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button. The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico’s colonial city of Puebla are driven exclusively by...
Mexico, Pink Taxis, Women only taxis
made popular Oct 20 2009
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Drug Violence makes Ciudad Juarez most violent
Global Report, Shimla
Ciudad Juarez has had almost 2000 homicides — almost all brutal executions — through mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period in 2008. There have...
Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, Sinaloa cartel
made popular Oct 24 2009
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Forty people die in drugrelated Mexico violence
Jared, Mexico City
A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon’s home...
Mexico, Drugs, Smuggling
made popular Sep 3 2009
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Nepal's Ex-prince Paras in Fake Currency Smuggling
Mukunda, Kathmandu
The investigations have given a new revelation of relation between Nepal’s ex-prince Paras with Underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim on the fake currency smuggling....
Paras Shah, Fake Currency, Smuggling
made popular Sep 2 2009
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Recession ends boom for Mexican smugglers' village
Brandon, Rochester
As illegal immigrants flooded north through the sun-baked Mexican border town of El Sasabe to find work in the United States earlier this decade, shop keeper Ramona...
Mexico, Drugs, Smuggling
made popular Aug 28 2009
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How Italy tried to cut a deal with the Mafia?
Keith, London
The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for...
Mafias in Italy, Smuggling, Drugs, Mafia threat in Europe
made popular May 23 2009
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FYI: When crossing the U.S. border, do NOT allow your wife to lounge in your Speaker Box.
Oscar, Oaxaca
Women. You can’t live with them and you sure the hell can’t live without them, but just a little friendly advice: When crossing the border from Mexico into...
Illegal immigrants, smuggling, border patrol
made popular Mar 17 2009
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Real or fake?
Mukunda, Kathmandu
Every month, one billion rupees worth of fake Indian currency is smuggled via Kathmandu airport to Birganj and across into India.
Nepal, IC, Currency, Fake
made popular Nov 3 2008
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India arrests for 'uranium theft'
Madhuri Katti, Kolkata
Police in the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya say they have arrested five people on charges of smuggling uranium ore. Only one packet of unprocessed uranium was...
Uranium mining, ore, smuggling, Meghalaya
made popular Sep 14 2008
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India-Bangladesh border clashes - searching for the truth
Rezwan, Dhaka
I have said it before that the illegal border trades and the involvement of the border security forces in the smuggling are the key causes for the India-Bangladesh...
India, Bangladesh, BSF, BDR
made popular Jul 21 2008
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Hic...hic...Beer comes in milk tanker
Rajbir Deswal, ANTA
Smuggling of the IMFL from Chandigarh had seen an upsurge during the past few months because of demand from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and some parts of Uttar...
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made popular Jul 14 2008
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AQK case closed, says Pakistan
K.Ramesh Babu, Chennai
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed...
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made popular Jul 6 2008
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Human skeleton smuggling racket busted
Ravneet, New Delhi
In a striking discovery, Indian police have exposed a stash of hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones. They have also busted the gang behind smuggling of human...
Human skeleton, Bones trade, Smuggling, Buddhist monasteries
made popular Jun 21 2007
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Trial for 21 yrs results in 28 days jail for two old men in Delhi
Pratyush, New Delhi
In a rare example of judicial process in India, a Delhi court has sentenced simple imprisonment of 28 days and the fine of Rs 25,000 each to the two old men. They...
Gyan Prakash Gupta, Jyoti Prasad, Delhi Court, Smuggling
made popular Jan 15 2007
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