Amid intensifying rumors that he’s considering a run for president, United States Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has come down hard on the White House over last year’s tragedy at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Dutch publisher Derk Sauer, who built up a publishing empire in Russia and is part owner of the NRC newspaper, has confirmed he smuggled weapons for the IRA at the beginning of the 1970s while an ‘aspiring journalist’.
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Hundreds of bars of gold have been smuggled out of Tunisia since the fall of former strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, according to a French newspaper investigation, which claims the authorities in Paris have ignored the suspicious shipments.
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More than 41 million euros was confiscated during the first seven months, a 78 per cent increase on the same period in 2011.
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North Korea may have put fake versions of a new missile on display at a major military parade this year, UN sanctions experts said in a report.
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South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.
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The government is trying to stop the outflow of money to other countries and encourage investment in Afghanistan. It has capped the amount of cash that can be taken out of the country at ,000.
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The weapons cache was discovered in the desert about 60 km (40 miles) south of In Amenas, an energy-producing Algerian region near the border with Libya
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Reports are now surfacing that Syria rebels attacks are being led at the direction of British and Qatari special forces. The attacks are being fueled by U.S. arms which are being smuggled through Turkey after a cargo plane of U.S. arms was seized in Lebanon.
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Bread smuggling in Greece has grown due to the economic crisis and has decreased the profits of local producers by 20%, the MP has told a Greek TV channel.
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