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The true cost of our 'wars' and 'wreckonomics'
Oped, Published on 16/02/2024
» In Constantine Cavafy's poem Waiting for the Barbarians, the much-feared barbarians never turn up. "Now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?" the poem asks. "Those people were a kind of solution."
Like Escobar, Ecuador's drug lords build 'narco-zoos'
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» QUITO - A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.
Colombia hopes to remove dead drug lord's hippos
AFP, Published on 07/03/2023
» BOGOTá - The governor of a region of Colombia where a herd of some 150 hippos -- descendants of animals once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- are breeding out of control said Monday he hopes for the greenlight to send half of them to sanctuaries in India and Mexico.
Latin American cocaine cartels bring violence to Europe
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» PARIS: "Seventy euros for one, 120 for two," said the cocaine dealer as the young woman opened her door on Paris's chic Left Bank.
Colombian drug lord 'Otoniel' pleads not guilty in US court
AFP, Published on 06/05/2022
» NEW YORK - One of Colombia's most notorious drug lords pleaded not guilty to cocaine trafficking charges in a New York court Thursday following his extradition to the United States.
Govt grateful for drug lord's deportation
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 29/04/2022
» Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin on Thursday thanked Myanmar authorities for repatriating Thawatchai Aomchompoo, one of Thailand's most-wanted drug suspects.
Meet the Myanmar junta’s hi-so helpers
Published on 25/12/2021
» Three years ago, the Kyaw Thaung family partied at the Pegu Club. The venerable Burmese Irish clan had restored the teak-lined establishment to its 19th-century glory. The Pegu Club project befitted the family’s East-meets-West positioning and the optimism of a country newly engaging with the world.
Colombia has the world's largest variety of butterfly species
AFP, Published on 23/06/2021
» BOGOTA: Colombia is home to the world's largest variety of butterflies, approximately 20% of all known species, according to a study published Tuesday by the Natural History Museum in London.
Honduran president's brother gets life in US jail for drug trafficking
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» NEW YORK - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country.
A Korean space opera
Life, Published on 09/02/2021
» After months of delay due to the pandemic, Space Sweepers, one of the most anticipated high budget South Korean sci-fi action films of the year, has found a home on Netflix and is providing movie fans an opportunity to see what the first blockbuster Korean space opera looks like. Now, director Jo Sung-hee, as well as members of the high-profile cast -- Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu and Yoo Hae-jin -- are inviting everybody on board as Space Sweepers launched on the streaming service last week to subscribers in 190 countries.