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| Jun. 11 |
 Southern Afghanistan |
Afghans seize 'largest drug haul'| Afghan police working with British special forces have uncovered a drugs stash of 237 tonnes of hashish, world's biggest seizure of drugs | | |
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| May.23 |
 Mexico |
Drug-related killings soar| Mexico's attorney general: The number of murders linked to organised crime has jumped by almost 50% so far this year to 1,378 | |
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| May.7 |
 Washington |
 Colombian warlord pleads not guilty| Carlos Mario Jimenez Naranjo, known in Colombia as 'Macaco', pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges in a court after his extradition | |
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| Apr.29 |
Colombia |
Major trafficker killed| Police killed Miguel Angel Mejia, for whose capture the U.S. government offered a $5 million reward | |
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| Feb.18 |
Colombia |
Soldiers convicted of killing drug cops A lieutenant colonel and 14 soldiers were convicted of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics police agents in an ambush
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| Feb.5 |
Southern Afghanistan |
More opium likely in Afghan south The amount of opium poppy cultivated in volatile provinces will increase this year, according to an annual UN assessment
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| Feb.4 |
Afghanistan |
Report urges Afghan farmer boost A new report on drugs trade urges more investment to provide alternative livelihoods for farmers
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| Feb.2 |
 Venezuela |
Top Colombia drug lord killed  A man shot to death in the Andean city of Merida is Wilber Varela, one of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords
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| Jan.16 |
 Southern California |
Ike Turner overdosed on cocaine Soul legend, who died last month at the age of 76, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners have established
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Benazir Bhutto assassinated
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| Nov.22 |
European Union |
Steep rise in Europe cocaine use An annual report on drug use says 4.5 million Europeans are likely to have used cocaine in the past year, a million more than in 2006
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Aid stopped after kidnap
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| Oct.2 |
Washington |
US claims success in war on drugs John Walters, head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has said anti-drug efforts are having the best results of the past 20 year...
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| Sep.3 |
Colombia |
Military: Key rebel Caracas killed Medina Caracas, the fugitive from a U.S. drug trafficking indictment, was killed in an air attack on a guerrilla encampment
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| Aug.27 |
Afghanistan |
Afghan opium at record high  UN: opium production in Afghanistan has soared to record levels, with an increase on last year of more than 1/3
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| Aug.7 |
 Sao Paulo |
Alleged Colombian drug lord arrested Ramirez Abadia wanted by the United States was arrested in a luxury condominium
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| Jul.19 |
Colombia |
'Drug baron' sent to US Colombia has extradited Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante, 49, to the US, where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering
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| Jun.27 |
Rio de Janeiro |
Police kill 13 suspected drug traffickers A huge operation aimed at ending a war between authorities and gangs that has raged for nearly 2 months in a slum
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| Jun.25 |
Afghanistan |
Afghan opium production 'soars'
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| May.24 |
Switzerland |
Arson suspected in synagogue fire
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| May.1 |
Colombia |
Colombia cuts drugs haul figure
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| Mar.19 |
Panama |
19.4 tons of cocaine seized
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| Mar.17 |
Mexico |
Drug raid targets police
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| Mar.11 |
Colombia |
 Bush thanks Colombia for drug aid US President has thanked President Alvaro Uribe for his support in the anti-drugs war
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| Dec.20 |
Venezuela |
Chavez demands US 'drug apology'
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| Dec.14 |
Mexico |
Soldiers kill drug traffickers Soldiers killed several traffickers in a gunbattle near Aguililla in the rugged mountains of western Mexico
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| Dec.11 |
Mexico |
Troops sent to fight drugs
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| Nov.3 |
USA |
Sex-row pastor 'bought drugs'
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| Oct.6 |
Mexico |
Police 'probed on drugs'
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| Sep.26 |
Florida |
Colombian drug lords jailed
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| Sep.13 |
Kenya |
Kenya now cocaine trafficking hub
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| Sep.2 |
Afghanistan |
Huge rise in Afghan opium
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Hezbollah kidnapping prompts Israeli move
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| Apr.11 |
Mexico |
Drugs seized on plane from Venezuela
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| Mar.7 |
Afghanistan |
Fight to stem bumper opium crop
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| Mar.1 |
France |
'Tennis drugs' trial opens
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| Feb.19 |
Italy |
Police find syringes at Olympics
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| Dec.1 |
 Singapore |
 Young Australian hanged| Singapore hanged young drug smuggler Tuong Van Nguyen, despite widespread condemnation in Australia | | |
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| Nov.19 |
 Peru |
Ex-airline owner arrested on drug charges The US has labeled Fernando Zevallos as a cocaine kingpin and chargef him of drug trafficking, homicide
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| May.21 |
Kabul |
 Afghan president pressed on opium US officials say Karzai is partly responsible for the failure of poppy eradication efforts
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Agency halts aid projects after kidnap
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| Apr.16 |
Colombia |
Cocaine found on U.S.-bound Navy ship
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| Feb.12 |
Washington |
4 charged over designer steroid
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| Dec.20 |
Gulf |
US stops 'al-Qaeda drugs boats' 2 Arab sailing boats carrying illegal drugs have been seized in the northern Arabian Sea
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Suicide bomb kills 4 U.S. soldiers
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| Jun.26 |
 China |
China kills 57 on anti-drug day Thousands of spectators attended a rally at a stadium where 20 were sentenced to death to mark a U.N. anti-drug day.
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| Apr.10 |
Colombia |
FARC commander sought
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