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The Kimberley Process has not been foolproof in keeping conflict diamonds out of the legal diamond trade, and most retailers do not take action against selling them.

Refugees are expected to reach Australia in a huge influx from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan as people smugglers bring them through transit points in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Six individuals were recently arrested in the United States for smuggling ivory. Meanwhile, ivory procurement remains the root cause for elephant poaching in Africa.

The diversity of cross border smuggling boggles the mind, not only with the variety of contraband but also with the varied methods employed to deceive border officials.

Two strong women, both estranged by husbands, must fend for themselves and their children by smuggling illegal aliens across the U.S.-Canada border.

The Obama administration is taking new steps to curb cross-border violence by Mexican drug cartels, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified May 6.

Robert Burns is world famous as a farmer and poet of the people, yet a large part of his adventurous life was spent as a respectable government Exciseman.

Conservationists the world over are worried about the illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam with worldwide ramifications. The accent is on Ivory and its products.

Exotic Newcastle disease can kill more than 90% of the birds it infects. Amazon Parrots, often the victims of international bird smugglers, are known to carry the virus.

Robin Hood probably never visited this part of Yorkshire, and the smugglers are long gone. Now,visitors come for the clean sandy beach and a stay in the pretty village.

Almost everyone is familiar with canaries, budgies and parrots, but mynahs, doves, toucans, and crows are often kept as pets as well.

Although illegal in many countries, the exotic pet trade continues to smuggle wild caught parrots, reducing the numbers of endangered parrots in the wild.

This partial synopsis and brief analysis of the American cult film classic "Reefer Madness" examines some of this early motion picture's themes and techniques.

SAA needs to shut down to save South Africa from further humiliation.

Tobacco smoking may become to this decade what boozing was to the Prohibition era -- a crime conceived to change social behavior by law.

Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are actively recruiting and smuggling operatives into the U. S. and Canada to plan and carry out terrorist attacks in North America.

Go along for the ride with both smugglers and investigators as they work the murky world of reptile trafficking. The profits are huge, and only fools get caught.

It likes to call itself Europe's youngest country, but the worrisome unknowns about Transdniestria means it has probably not earned its independence yet

The 1764 Sugar Act increased enforcement of revenue collection by eliminating smuggling, local corruption, and West Indies fraud in the exporting of French molasses.

Its origins are a mystery, but what is certain is that it was first planted in Mâconnais in France in the village of Chardonnay, from where it spread to the New World.

Choosing the right pet bird is easy if you match your expectations with the bird's needs. There are lots of features, requirements, costs, and risks to consider.

Emirates beaches were deserted for days following sightings of an escaped crocodile roaming loose near Ras Al Khaimah.

Prohibition in Canada was short, but laws were in effect in the US for many years. It was disastrous. Canadian bootleggers, rumrunners and then mobsters made fortunes

Polperro, on the Cornish coast, offers delights from smuggler lore to pixies' promises to charming dining to a view of a real working fishing village.

Lake Lugano and the mountains that overlook it can be explored on foot, on walking paths and hiking trails accessed by cable cars and by boat.

Once a "bourgeois" drug of choice for Mexico's artists and intellectuals, cocaine has become a national offensive against an extensive network of Mexican drug cartels.

The 1764 Sugar Act was more than a revenue producing measure in that its various provisions attempted to reorganize colonial commercial and trade practices.

A lucrative cocaine trade is flooding West Africa, which is fast becoming a key transit hub for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine smuggled to Europe.

Wild caught fish are very desirable due to their brilliant colors but they also have a high price tag. It is a big risk for people who are new to the aquarium hobby.

Despite an impressive oscar-calibre performance from lead actress, Melissa Leo, Frozen River suffers from a condescending script and juvenile metaphor.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime options for bringing piracy suspects to justice have created some confusion among countries and captains with warships in the region.

Chico Rei was the chief of his tribe when he was forced into slavery in Ouro Preto, a gold boomtown in Minas Gerais, Brazil, six hours northwest of Rio de Janeiro.

Criminal syndicates that emerged in China and Japan still conduct shady activities today, and the violence of Vietnamese/Laotian gangs is becoming well known.

Fraud, illicit affairs, deception, backhanders, injustice and lies. These and other scandals have made it into Australian headlines over the past 17 years.

The latent crisis of Democracy's collapse, Islamic fundamentalism & fiscal failure in an atomic Pakistan is ignored as America politicizes Iranian meeting preconditions.

According to the U.S. State Department's 2008 International Narcotics Control Report, about 90 per cent of the cocaine entering America travels through Mexico.

Whilst on his way home, a witness is trapped on board a plane with a host of venomous snakes. The snakes cause shorts all over the plane, struggling to make it to LAX.

Revenue Act of 1764 (Molasses Act): George Grenville created a law that nullified "no taxation without representation" which British Constitution opposed - William Pitt

East Sussex has many attractions for visitors. The Long Man of Wilmington, Rye an ancient Cinque Port, Beachy Head towers over the English Channel and Michelham Priory.

Using data current to September, 2008, the recently declassified National Gang Assessment 2009 report shows a jump of 36.5% in street and youth gang members since 2002.

The Kings Advocate-General in Massachusetts resigns political post to defend British Liberty, firing the first verbal shot heard round the world of the Revolutionary War!

Leonardo DiCaprio's movie Blood Diamond lets us experience the appalling horrors perpetrated by monstrous thugs who rule the lethal blood diamond trade.

Taxation without representation and the East India Company trade monopoly were two important causes of the Boston Tea Party.

Chimps, capuchins, orang-utans, and lemurs. Not what you would expect to find down the leafy lanes of rural Dorset. Monkey World is a major center for primate rescue.

Tea drinking came from China to northern Europe via Portugal and Holland but it was the British who took to tea with a passion. Tea has many varieties to suit all tastes.

Colombia's been home to some of the most sophisticated drug trafficking deals in the world. So how's the disintegration of it's largest cartels effected its drug trade?

Tarring and feathering will always be associated with the days leading to the American Revolution as a cruel tool for intimidation.

If you think you owe your daily caffeine rush to South American coffee beans, take a sip of Ethiopian coffee and think again.

A Saudi Airline flight had a high alert earlier this week as a plague of rats rampaged through the cabin.

The finale to the third season is the first time that a Doctor or assistant has not been written out, but this has freed Davies to come up with the best ending yet.