Human smuggling rings smashed
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Thirteen people are held during dawn raids by police targeting two human-smuggling rings.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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One man&#39;s treasure is another man&#39;s trash. Never has the butchered saying been more true than today in Hong Kong when the contents of more than 80 safety deposit boxes were dumped in a Kowloon scrapyard.
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Two more men were arrested in connection with a drug-smuggling ring that bypassed airport security to send guns and narcotics to Puerto Rico, according to court documents.
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Lost or mishandled bags spiked by nearly 25 percent in August as airlines struggled to handle an increase in checked luggage after authorities banned most liquids and gels from passenger cabins, according to government statistics released today.
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One of the men who led one of the largest people-smuggling rings Scotland Yard has uncovered is jailed.
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FOUR Israeli antiquities collectors and dealers were charged yesterday with running a sophisticated worldwide ring forging biblical artefacts.
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JERUSALEM -- Four Israeli antiquities collectors and dealers were indicted yesterday on charges that they ran a sophisticated forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artifacts, including some that were hailed as major archeological finds.
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Austria has smashed a global child pornography ring involving 2,361 suspects in 77 states who paid for Internet videos showing children subjected to "the worst kind of sexual abuse", officials said on Wednesday.
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Police and border guards in Finland have dismantled a prostitution ring run from St Petersburg in Russia, officials say.
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Two men were convicted Thursday for their role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt &#151; a journey that ended in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants crammed in a sweltering tractor-trailer.
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The US says it has smashed a gang planning to smuggle 135,000 fake Nike shoes from China into the US.
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LONDON -- British police, aided by US authorities, have smashed a global Internet pedophile ring that broadcast live-streamed videos of children being abused, investigating more than 700 suspects worldwide and rescuing 31 children in a 10-month probe, officials said yesterday .
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THE United Nations sounded the alarm yesterday about child traffickers smuggling orphans out of the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh for adoption abroad.
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The United States returned ancient pottery, gold jewelry, burial shrouds and hundreds of other stolen pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru on Wednesday after they were seized in a Florida smuggling investigation.
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THIEVES snatched two diamonds worth a total of $20 million from an antique dealers&#39; show in a bold heist yesterday at the Louvre museum complex in Paris.
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Even the looters had shown a measure of respect for the dead. They stole only valuables: cash, perhaps a few passports, wallets, and watches.