Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Trafficking

UK anti-slavery post left unfilled by Home Office since April 2022

Role of anti-slavery commissioner vacant at time when cases of suspected trafficking at all-time high

The Guardian - UK

KC-area firearm store settles lawsuit over gun trafficking. Will it make a difference?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City has reached a settlement with a local gun store that will require the shop to pay $150,000, implement training to prevent straw purchasing and participate in a monitoring program.

Tribune News Service

Studies Link Marijuana Legalization to All Sorts of Positive Public Health Outcomes

Plus: San Francisco claims to have "significantly disrupted" sex trafficking, a nationwide injunction on abortion pills, and more...

Reason

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Nigerian politician accused of organ trafficking to UK paid doctor to find donor, court hears

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, tells Old Bailey he paid Dr Obinna Obeta £1,800 to find kidney donor for his daughter

The Guardian - UK

The huge problem Andrew Tate is causing teachers in Wales

Tate is currently under investigation for suspected rape and human trafficking in Romania - matters he denies

Wales Online

UN Experts Urge Intensifying Efforts to Combat Smuggling of Iranian Arms to Houthis in Yemen

The members of the Panel of Experts on Yemen stressed the need to intensify efforts to combat the smuggling of weapons from Iran to the Houthi militias.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thai, US officials discuss Trafficking in Persons report

The United States government has recommended Thailand simplify processes for migrants wanting to work legally in the fishery industry to increase the country's chance of upgrading its status to Tier 1 in the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.

Bangkok Post

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Canadian police charge seven with trafficking, exploiting Mexican migrants

Canadian police have charged seven people with trafficking and exploiting 64 Mexican migrants, saying the accused were part of an international labour trafficking ring.

Reuters

More than 2 tonnes of cocaine washes up on shores of northern France

Sealed bags containing 2.3 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated 150 million euros have washed up on the northern French coast this week. This comes as Europe faces a surge in trafficking and use of the illicit drug.

Radio France Internationale

Marcus Sweeney 'throws Rolex off balcony' after Andrew Tate TikTok rant

The Celtic Tiger high-flyer said he believes the former professional kickboxer, who has been detained in Romania for two months as part of a probe into human trafficking and rape allegations, is innocent

Dublin Live

Hundreds of trafficking victims in UK missing after referral to support scheme

Home Office data shows 566 people were categorised as missing between 2020 and 2022

The Guardian - UK

‘Tip of the spear’: Battling the Golden Triangle’s drug lords

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

Al Jazeera

Obsolete law is costing Indonesian wildlife

As long as the law does not recognise it as transnational organised crime, the illegal trade of wildlife will continue to flourish in Indonesia.

360info

US requests extradition of El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzmán

The United States has requested that Mexico extradite Ovidio Guzmán, son of notorious crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, so that he can face criminal charges in the U.S. for trafficking cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ghislaine Maxwell appeals verdict and 20-year sex-trafficking sentence

Ghislaine Maxwell argued this week that the judge presiding over her 2021 trial prevented her from mounting a “meaningful defense” and that anonymity granted to several of the victims who testified against her turned the trial into “a form of Kabuki theater.”

The Independent UK

Biden says Labor nominee Julie Su represents American dream

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his labor secretary nominee Julie Su is a “real leader” who has supported unions, enforced worker safety and protected the victims of human trafficking

Tribune News Service

Ghislaine Maxwell appeals conviction, argues she was unfair proxy for Jeffrey Epstein ‘to satisfy public outrage’ over financier’s jail suicide

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell appealed her sex trafficking conviction on Tuesday, claiming the feds unfairly used her as a proxy for Jeffrey Epstein after he killed himself in their custody.

Evening Standard

Andrew Tate ‘playing character’ and statements ‘taken out of context’, claims his lawyer

Lawyer for misogynistic influencer held on human trafficking charges in Romania claims he is playing ‘Andrew Tate character’

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

JPMorgan doesn’t want CEO Jamie Dimon questioned under oath in Jeffrey Epstein case

The bank said its CEO was “not relevant” in the lawsuit being brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell lodges appeal against sex trafficking conviction

Maxwell has called for her conviction and the underlying indictment to be thrown out, or failing that, a new trial or a re-sentencing.

The Independent UK

Rapper Kodak Black ordered into drug rehab by judge

A Florida judge has ordered rapper Kodak Black to drug rehab for 30 days after he allegedly tested positive for fentanyl while awaiting trial on a drug trafficking charge

The New Daily

Ghislaine Maxwell to appeal sex trafficking conviction

Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to ask an appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Daily Mirror

Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to appeal conviction claiming victims' memories were 'faded'

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys are to claim that the disgraced British socialite was convicted based on "faded, distorted, and motivated memories" about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell to appeal sex trafficking convictions

The disgraced socialite will claim victims had “faded, distorted and motivated memories”

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell to lodge appeal against sex trafficking conviction

The disgraced British socialite’s lawyers have said they will appeal based on ‘errors’ by the trial court and the US government.

1 … 99 100 101 102

People

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.