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Long gone are the days of swallowing cocaine stuffed into condoms and closed up with scotch tape -- today's smugglers have gone high-tech. The Guyana pods are all the same: small, black, heat-sealed capsules about three centimetres (1.2 inches) wide
World
14.08.2024
At Paris' Orly airport, a daily duel between customs and Guiana drug mules
Alphabet, the parent of internet giant Google, reported a drop in profits over the past quarter as it boosted spending
World
14.08.2024
Google parent Alphabet profits slip amid bigger investments
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, seen here in October 2019, had proposed a meeting of the coalition to defeat the Islamic State group as the United States announced the pullout of troops from Syria
World
14.08.2024
Anti-IS coalition to meet in Washington November 14: US
There have been intermittent attacks on mosques in France since 2007, when 148 Muslim headstones in a national military cemetery near Arras were smeared with anti-Islamic slurs and a pig's head was placed among them
World
14.08.2024
Octogenerian tries to burn mosque, shoots and injures two: police
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Venezuelan asylum-seekers, like these at a border post in Peru, are flowing out of their crisis-wracked country
World 14.08.2024
Venezuela refugee crisis to become far worse, UN-EU conference told
Scientists believe early humans lived in the wetlands south of the Zambezi river for 70,000 years before climate change allowed them to expand
World 14.08.2024
Humanity's homeland found in ancient Botswana
Argentina's president-elect Alberto Fernandez flashes de "V" sign as he leaves the Casa Rosada presidential palace after a meeting with President Mauricio Macri
World 14.08.2024
Argentina tightens exchange controls to stem capital flight
The Chinese flag flies behind razor wire at a housing compound in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region
World 14.08.2024
Uighur musician listed for China show year after disappearance
Hoang Thi Ai, the mother of 18-year old Hoang Van Tiep who is feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain
World 14.08.2024
Flights and fake passports: The 'VIP packages' enticing Vietnamese to UK
Lina Wertmuller, 91, finally received an honorary Oscar more than four decades after she became the first woman nominated for best director
World 14.08.2024
'The Annas?': Oscar honorees target Hollywood gender equality
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have one child, 17-year-old Princess Aiko
World 14.08.2024
Poll finds over 80% in Japan back female emperor
With the rise of new streaming TV services, marketers are likely to use more targeted ads in the same manner as internet platforms like Google or Facebook
World 14.08.2024
Streaming TV gears up for ad targeting
Germany will host an international conference later this year to discuss the Libyan crisis and ways of ending foreign interference in the North African country
World 14.08.2024
Germany calls for end to foreign interference in Libya
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