Cocaine

Toronto mayor Rob Ford denies 'cocaine video'

19 May 2013

Toronto Police say they are reviewing allegations that the city's mayor, Rob Ford, was caught on video using cocaine. Ford, a target of criticism for his often unconventional conduct, on Friday...

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Asylum seekers recruited to sell cocaine to nightclubbers, say police

7 Apr 2013

Asylum seekers have been recruited by drug gangs to sell cocaine in Central's upmarket nightclub district, police say.

And they are even offering punters a free "line" of the drug that...

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Briefs, March 10, 2013

10 Mar 2013

The plane that was due to bring home the bodies of the nine Hong Kong tourists who were killed in the balloon disaster in Egypt last month was cancelled on Friday because of poor weather.

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Man arrested for large cocaine haul

5 Feb 2013

A South American man has been arrested for trying to smuggle HK$7.73 million worth of cocaine into Hong Kong by dissolving the drug in a liquid and soaking his clothes and suitcase with it.

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Death penalty grandmother to sue British government: charity

28 Jan 2013

A court last Tuesday sentenced Briton Lindsay Sandiford, 56, to death by firing squad for smuggling almost five kilogrammes of cocaine worth $2.4 million into the resort island of Bali last May....

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Talking points

22 Jan 2013

Verdict in whistling assault case

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

Updated 3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Briefs, December 8, 2012

Guatemala has refused to grant asylum to the American anti-virus-software pioneer John McAfee and said he would be deported back to Belize to answer questions over his neighbour's murder.

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Australia seizes US$246m of drugs from China

Australian police said on Wednesday they had seized cocaine and methamphetamine worth US$246 million shipped from China in a consignment of heavy machinery.

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Malaysia seizes US$7.1m ‘cocaine cocktail’ from ship

Malaysian narcotics agents have foiled a Nigerian syndicate’s bid to smuggle cocaine worth US$7.1 million hidden in coconut milk cans, a top police official said on Tuesday.

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DRUG SMUGGLING

Yacht found off Tonga held HK$930m cocaine haul and a body

A yacht that washed up on a deserted tropical island in the South Pacific with a badly decomposed body on board was carrying more than 200kg of cocaine worth up to US$120 million, police said...

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Briefs, November 13, 2012

WHO unites to tackle illegal tobacco trade

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Huge cocaine bust is ‘possibly largest ever seized’ in Paraguay

Anti-drug police in landlocked Paraguay said they seized 1,700 kilos (3,750 pounds) of cocaine at a remote site on the border with Brazil and arrested 19 suspects.

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