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AP, Los Angeles
Defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor are accused of human trafficking in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.
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AP, Libreville
A police sting in Gabon brought down a ring of grave robbers suspected of selling human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets, officials said...
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AP, Yangon
More than 80 women and children who were victims of Myanmar’s recent cyclone have been rescued from human traffickers scheming to smuggle them to neighboring...
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AP, London
The British government says police have arrested 528 suspects in a months-long crackdown on human trafficking in the sex trade.The Home Office says 167 victims had been...
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This isn’t a Thailand only problem but a worldwide problem. Drugs are a scourge to society; they cause problems and create crime. The profit from drugs goes to the...
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AP, Lausanne
Swiss police said Thursday they have arrested about 30 people in a crackdown on a large drug trafficking network.The network is suspected of drug dealing worth over...
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AP, El-arish
An Egyptian security official says border guards shot and killed an unidentified man trying to sneak into Israel and arrested 12 African migrants also attempting the...
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AP, Los Angeles
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted the former head of UCLA’s cadaver program on eight felony counts for allegedly trafficking in parts of bodies donated...
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AP, Hanoi
Police said Monday they have arrested two people in northern Vietnam for trying to transport a newborn baby to China as part of a baby-trafficking ring, the second...
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AP, Hanoi
Chinese police arrested six people suspected of trying to sell two newborn Vietnamese babies as part of a baby-trafficking ring, Vietnamese authorities said...
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AP, Phoenix
The arrest of a gun shop owner on Tuesday broke up a suspected firearms trafficking operation that supplied violent Mexican drug cartels, authorities said.Agents raided...
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AP, Pristina
A human rights group said Monday that new evidence has emerged to warrant further investigation into claims that ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo killed Serbs and...
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AP, Washington
The United States believes that South American cocaine traffickers are diverting shipments away from the United States to Europe, a top U.S. drug official said...
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AP, The Hague
U.N. investigators found no substantial evidence to support claims that ethnic Albanian guerrillas killed dozens of Serbs in Kosovo and sold their organs, a court...
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Egyptian police on Tuesday fatally shot a Sudanese woman and arrested a second one who was with an infant as they tried to cross into Israel, a security official...
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AP, Vienna
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery that must not be tolerated, a senior U.N. official and celebrities said Wednesday.Pop star Ricky Martin, Oscar-winning...
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AP, Hanoi
Two Vietnamese were arrested for animal trafficking after two live tigers were found sedated in the back seat of a car and four dead cats were found frozen in a home,...
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AP, Beijing
Cross-border human trafficking for forced labor and prostitution is a growing problem along China’s southern border, officials said Friday at a conference on the...
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Anna Ikeda, 25, right, and Jessica Sweeney, 32, both of Denver, put up a poster in a store window in Denver, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The Democratic Convention begins on Monday in Denver. On Saturday, volunteers fanned out across Denver to put up posters...
