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Dubai drug bust: 28 suspects, 3 drug trafficking rings with products worth $8.7 mln
Dubai Police rounded up a combined 28 suspects who were running drug rings with products worth $8.7 million (AED 32 million).In a report published by ... Gulf -
UK prison security scanners foil 28,000 attempts to smuggle contraband behind bars
New high-tech scanners deployed in Britain’s prisons captured a record level of contraband, foiling over 28,000 attempts to smuggle drugs, mobile ... World News -
UAE: Ras Al Khaimah authorities seize 103kg of hashish found on fishing boat
Ras Al Khaimah Police’s anti-narcotics department seized 103 kilograms of hashish and arrested a number of drug dealers on drug trafficking and ... Gulf -
Egypt hands Ukrainian life sentence for drug smuggling
A Cairo court has sentenced to life in prison a Ukrainian woman arrested at the Egyptian capital’s airport with a bag of cocaine, a judicial source ... North Africa -
Philippines seeks to cleanse police force of drug ties
The Philippines’ interior secretary announced Wednesday he has asked all police generals and full colonels to submit their courtesy resignation to ... World News -
Four tons of drugs seized by French navy in the Arabian Sea
The French navy seized nearly half a ton of heroin and 3.5 tons of cannabis resin when it intercepted an unflagged boat in the Arabian Sea, it said ... Middle East -
Canada police report record opium seizure at Vancouver Port
Canadian police have announced a record seizure of nearly 2.5 metric tons of opium hidden in containers transiting through the western port of ... World News -
Man sentenced to death for smuggling drugs in Saudi Arabia
A Saudi national has been sentenced to death for smuggling banned amphetamine tablets near the country’s northern border with Jordan, the Saudi Press ... Saudi Arabia -
Nine arrested in Riyadh after firing gunshots and burning car over drug dispute
Nine people have been arrested after a car was set alight and gunshots fired at a car showroom in Riyadh over a drugs dispute, the Saudi Press Agency ... Saudi Arabia -
Spanish police seize largest amount of marijuana ever worth $64 million
Spanish police said on Saturday they had seized 32 tonnes of packaged marijuana with a street value of at least 64 million euros ($63.74 million), ... World News -
Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation spikes as prices soar: UN
Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation this year is up by a third, the UN’s drugs agency said Tuesday, in its first report on the issue since the ... World News -
US, Mexico diplomats meet to discuss drugs, crime, migration
Top US and Mexican diplomats and other officials met in Washington for security talks that focused on drugs, crime and irregular migration.Called the ... World News -
British warship intercepts dhow carrying $16.6 mln worth of meth in Arabian Sea
A British warship intercepted a dhow carrying $16.6 million worth of methamphetamine in the Arabian Sea on Saturday, according to the UK’s National ... Gulf -
Saudi authorities arrest around 150 smugglers in narcotics bust
Saudi Arabia’s Border Guard land patrols seized a haul of narcotics across several locations across the country and arrested 146 smugglers, the ... Gulf -
Saudi authorities seize around 250,000 illegal pills stashed in drilling equipment
Authorities in Saudi Arabia seized 249,779 amphetamine pills and 25 kilograms of hashish from smugglers, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on ... Gulf -
Traffic accident in Syria reveals huge shipment of illicit drugs
A fatal traffic accident near the Syria-Lebanon border revealed a huge shipment of illicit drugs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) ... Middle East -
Saudi Arabia forces seize 3,000 kg of hashish, heroin in Gulf of Oman
Saudi Arabia’s naval forces have seized more than 3,000 kilograms of hashish and heroin as part of a search operation in the Gulf of Oman, the ... Gulf -
Saudi authorities foil biggest amphetamine smuggling attempt
Saudi Arabia’s security forces seized around 47 million tablets of amphetamine, in one of the biggest smuggling attempts of amphetamine into the ... Gulf -
Argentina seizes 1.6 tons of cocaine headed for Dubai
Argentine authorities seized 1.6 tons of cocaine hidden in animal feed destined for Dubai and detained 12 people, police said on Friday.The seizure, ... Gulf -
Finland PM takes drugs test after party video causes stir
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Friday she had taken a drugs test in the wake of video footage published earlier this week that showed her ... World News -
Stolen ‘Picasso’ painting seized from Iraqi drug gang
A stolen painting believed to be a Picasso was seized from an Iraqi drug gang that was arrested on Saturday, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.For ... Gulf -
Body of Philippine teen Kian Delos Santos exhumed in fresh push for drug war justice
The body of a teenager killed in a high-profile shooting during the Philippines’ war on drugs five years ago was exhumed for autopsy on Monday as his ... World News -
Dubai Customs thwarts 3.7kg cannabis smuggling attempt
Authorities at Dubai International Airport seized 3.7 kilograms of cannabis from a passenger who had attempted to smuggle the substance by hiding it ... Gulf -
Israel’s Teva reaches potential $4.25 billion US opioid settlement
Israeli generic drug maker Teva has reached an agreement in principle to pay $4.25 billion over 13 years to settle a series of court cases over its ... Middle East -
Jordan’s King Abdullah protests border attacks by Iran-tied militias
King Abdullah II protested in an interview published Sunday over attacks on Jordan’s borders by “militias linked to Iran,” following deadly clashes ... Middle East -
US authorities seize more than 20,000 pounds of khat
Authorities in the US seized more than 20,000 pounds of the narcotic plant khat, Customs and Border Protection announced in a statement on ... World News -
Saudi Arabia foils captagon smuggling attempt, seizes 15 million pills
Saudi Arabia announced Friday the seizure of nearly 15 million captagon pills, an amphetamine that seeks to wreak havoc in the Kingdom as well as ... Gulf -
Saudi authorities arrest eight attempting to smuggle 3.5 million amphetamine pills
Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested a Syrian national with an Umrah visa, four Saudi citizens and three Turkish residents for attempting to smuggle ... Gulf -
Syria seizes record 2.3 tonnes of illicit drug captagon: Ministry
Syrian counter-narcotics units seized a record haul of 2.3 tonnes of the amphetamine-type stimulant known as captagon, the interior ministry announced ... Middle East -
Abu Dhabi to focus on rehabilitation, treatment under new anti-drugs initiative
Government officials in the United Arab Emirate’s capital of Abu Dhabi have said they will put treatment and rehabilitation at the focus of a new ... Gulf