Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism to the U.S. via fentanyl, now labeled as ...
At the end of the 1990s, a Swedish company called Lundin Oil started drilling in a war-torn region of what was then Sudan. To ...
UNODC survey found 85% of families in northern provinces unable to replace poppy income. Production fell 32% to 296 tonnes as ...
Oversimplified discourse on Ming, Qing dynasties risks slide into ‘narrow, Han-centric nationalism’, Zhejiang authorities ...
In the bustling streets and quiet corners of Tamale and its surrounding districts, a fierce and daunting battle is being ...
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9 smuggling rings that shaped history

Smuggling rings have quietly redirected wars, economies, and empires, often shaping your world more than official laws ever ...
T o get our heads around the staggering reality that the United States is now openly attempting to destroy the European Union, we might start with the Opium War. It was launched to force a highly ...
Last night, the Game Awards kicked off with a major disturbance in the Force. The long-awaited, long-rumored news about the in-limbo remakes of two of the most beloved Star Wars video games ever made, ...
Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...
Myanmar's opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the United Nations said Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. War-ravaged ...
Dec 3 (Reuters) - Opium poppy cultivation in war-torn Myanmar has surged to its highest level in a decade, rising 17% in the past year as conflict and economic hardship push more farmers into the ...