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• Drug trafficking to U.S. brought a grisly year to citizens of Juarez

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 605
  As 2009 draws to a close, senior Mexican officials have concluded that the deployment of 10,000 soldiers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico this year has failed to control the violence and crime that has stricken the city over the past two years, says a Washington Post report this week. Mexican drug cartels have been fighting ...
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• Delusional British National Executed in China over Drug Smuggling

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 137
  Execution Underscores Chinas Contempt for the West Coming on the heels of its efforts to derail climate change talks in Copenhagen and the stiff prison sentence handed over to a political dissident popular in the West, German newspapers see the handling of the prosecution and execution of a British citizen in ...
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• Iran hangs 3

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 137
  Iran has hanged 3 convicted drug traffickers at a prison in the central city of Isfahan, the government-run newspaper Iran reported on Wednesday. The men were identified as Qodrat, Khan Mohammad and Mostafa and all convicted separately of dealing and carrying narcotics, according to the report, which did not ...
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
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• Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 120
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   American mercenaries in Pakistan are hundreds of miles away from areas believed to be hiding terrorists, involved in "operations" that cant have anything whatsoever to do with any CIA contract. These mercenaries arent in Quetta, Waziristan or FATA supporting our troops, they are in ...
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• China’s decision to execute drug-trafficking Brit has a historical background

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec. 30 (ANI): The Chinese warning that Britain’s protest against the execution of drug trafficking-accused British citizen, Akmal Shaikh, could harm diplomatic ties between the two countries, has its roots in the historical China-Britain Opium Wars on the 19th century. An official statement from the Chinese ...
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• Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker – Washington Post

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  Globe and Mail Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker Washington Post Britain and China were engaged in a fierce diplomatic argument Tuesday after the Chinese government executed a British citizen for drug trafficking despite claims that he was mentally ill and unfit to ...
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• China Executes Briton Akmal Shaikh Despite Appeals for Mercy

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 580
  British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed by Chinese authorities yesterday for smuggling heroin. As reported earlier on CDT , the case was regarded as controversial given Shaikh’s family’s claims that he had a mental illness and had been manipulated by a gang into smuggling the drugs. From the New York Times ...
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• UK should expel Chinese diplomats

  
  nabidana.com — Authority: 109
  The execution today  by the People’s Republic of China of a man with apparently obvious mental illness for drug trafficking should be met by the UK with a diplomatic response.  Summoning the Chinese ambassador  to the Foreign and Commonwealth office is not enough, and in my view we should mark this human-rights ...
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• China executes Briton

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 137
  (CNN) -- The British government condemned Chinas execution of a British national Tuesday on drug smuggling charges. "I ... am appalled and disappointed that our persistent requests for clemency have not been granted," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. "I am particularly concerned that no mental health assessment ...
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• China Executed British National for Drug Trafficking

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 561
  A British immigrant, reportedly mentally unstable, was executed Tuesday, December 29, after being convicted for drug smuggling, BBC reported . Akmal Shaikh , 53, was said to be suffering from the mental problem of bipolar disorder. This prompted clemency support from various organizations like the United ...
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• Protest at Mexican prison where Mel Gibson movie will be filmed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Veracruz (Mexico), Dec 29 (IANS/EFE) Several hundred people protested outside a prison in the Mexican city of Veracruz - where an upcoming Mel Gibson movie is to be filmed - to demand that a planned transfer of inmates not be moved up to an earlier date.Close to 300 relatives of inmates at the Ignacio [...]
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• China set to execute British man

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  A British national convicted of drug trafficking faces execution in China on Tuesday, which would make him the first European citizen to be executed in China in half a century.
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• Appeals to China Intensify in Effort to Spare Briton

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 137
  LONDON — Five days before a British man is scheduled to be executed in China for heroin smuggling, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined members of the man’s family and human rights organizations in renewing appeals for clemency. They say Chinese courts failed to give adequate weight to the man’s history ...
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• Mexico Chopper Crash Claims One Soldier And Leaves Others Injured

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Ranjan BhaduriDec.24, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Guerrero, a southern state in Mexico witnessed a helicopter crash on Wednesday and the accident claimed one life and left two soldiers wounded. The Mexican Defense Department confirmed the news. The ill fated Bell 212 helicopter had one officer and nine soldiers onboard and ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Family Plead for Life of Mentally Ill Briton Facing Execution in China

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 580
  Briton Akmal Shaikh is scheduled to be executed next week in China for heroin smuggling. The case is controversial, given his family’s claims that Shaikh has a mental illness and had been manipulated by a gang into smuggling the drugs. From the Guardian : Akmal Shaikh is due to be executed on 29 December after ...
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• Schapelle Corby -- Depressed and Desperate?

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 423
  It has been a while since I last wrote a Schapelle Corby related post. There has been no reason for this, other than not being bothered. I am planning on writing a couple (I might do them all in a row now that I am onto it). This particular post was inspired by some email I received asking me what I thought about her ...
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• Denia Drug Trafficking

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 148
  The port town of Denia is the perfect place for bringing drugs in and out of the town by ferry.The guardia Civil has detained 10 people in Denia and Javea in connection with the trafficking of drugs brought into the country from North Africa. The police have announced that the operation to try and catch the culprits ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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