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Wrongly deported Salvadoran migrant arrested on return to US
AFP, Published on 07/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - The Salvadoran migrant at the heart of a row over President Donald Trump's hardline deportation policies was returned to the United States on Friday and arrested on human smuggling charges.
Hong Kong jails Thai parrot egg smuggler as customs cracks case amid rising trend
South China Morning Post, Published on 19/05/2025
» A traveller from Thailand has been given a two-year jail sentence in Hong Kong for smuggling 187 parrot eggs valued at an estimated HK$1.4 million (6 million baht), with an expert saying the seizure is part of a global uptick of such cases involving endangered species.
Syria to Libya to the EU: how people-smugglers operate
AFP, Published on 16/08/2023
» BEIRUT: For desperate Syrians, a WhatsApp message saying "I want to go to Europe" can be all they need to start a treacherous journey to Libya and then across the Mediterranean.
UK jails drug boss extradited from Thailand
AFP, Published on 03/06/2023
» LONDON: A British drug kingpin has been extradited home from Thailand to serve a lengthy jail term after spending years on the run, UK police said on Saturday.
Around 60 migrants die in boat wreck off Italy
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» CUTRO (ITALY) - At least 59 migrants, including 11 children and a newborn baby, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, officials said.
Sydney Mardi Gras returns in style
Published on 25/02/2023
» SYDNEY: Thousands of scantily clad revellers danced through Sydney on Saturday for the annual Mardi Gras parade, which returned to the Australian city’s streets for the first time since the outbreak of Covid-19.
'The Last of Us' -- a new test for video game adaptations
AFP, Published on 15/01/2023
» NEW YORK - However thrilling they are to play, video games rarely translate well to the big or small screen -- indeed, the crossover genre is littered with flops.
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.
Singapore makes biggest seizure of rhino horn
AFP, Published on 05/10/2022
» Singapore authorities have made their biggest ever seizure of rhino horn with a US$830,000 haul confiscated from a smuggler arriving from South Africa, officials said Wednesday.
Trouser snakes: US smuggler admits carrying reptiles in pants
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - A man who hid snakes and lizards in his trousers as he tried to sneak them into the United States as part of a $750,000 reptile smuggling enterprise faces decades in prison, officials said Wednesday.