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120,000 minors crossed Darien Gap last year in bid to reach US
AFP, Published on 02/01/2024
» PANAMA CITY - Record numbers of migrants crossing the hostile Darien gap jungle in 2023 included 120,000 minors, the Panama government said Monday.
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A migrant's odyssey from Venezuela to the United States
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» MATAMOROS (MEXICO) - Lying in the jungle with a gun pointed at him, Marcel Maldonado remembered his mother's warning about the dangers of migrating overland to the United States -- and wondered if he'd get out alive.
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Inside the 'living hell' of Cambodia's scam operations
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.
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Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state
AFP, Published on 03/11/2022
» BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.
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Chinese police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» Nearly 150 cats bound for slaughterhouses have been rescued by police in eastern China, an international animal welfare organisation said.
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Triad tour shines light on Singapore's gangland past
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» SINGAPORE - A reformed gang member points out what were once opium dens and brothels on a tour of Singapore's financial district that explores the squeaky-clean Asian business hub's seedy criminal past.
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Shippers call for coalition against Gulf of Guinea pirates
AFP, Published on 19/05/2021
» LAGOS: Major international shipping and maritime companies have called for a coalition to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, where armed kidnappings of seafarers reached record levels last year.
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Protests leave permanent imprint on Hong Kong's streets
AFP, Published on 09/06/2020
» HONG KONG: Torn up paving stones filled-in with concrete, cages erected over bridges and security guards on campus entrances -- protests have left a permanent imprint on Hong Kong's streets after a year of tumult.
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Nigerian 'sex slavery' ring goes on trial in France
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» LYON, France: Twenty-four suspected members of a sex trafficking ring accused of forcing Nigerian women into prostitution in France go on trial Wednesday, the latest case to highlight the growing use of Nigerian migrants as sex slaves in Europe.
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UK police say 39 found dead in truck were Chinese
AFP, Published on 24/10/2019
» GRAYS (UNITED KINGDOM) - British police said on Thursday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London were all believed to be Chinese nationals, as officers conduct the country's largest murder probe in more than a decade.
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