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Cuba uncovers network trafficking Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine

Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters.

Al Jazeera

Drug cartels: How cocaine and bananas fuel violence in once-peaceful Ecuador

Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine

The Independent UK

Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine

Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine

The Independent UK

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QAnon 2.0: The "Sound of Freedom" moment

Right-wing influencers pushed a paranoid, anti-immigrant hit movie — while pretending they'd never heard of QAnon

Salon

'Truly troubling': police rescue allegedly enslaved woman forced to stay in Canberra

It is alleged she was not fed properly or allowed to leave the house on her own.

The Canberra Times

Court orders attachment of property linked to Khalistan Liberation Force’s “narco-terror” module accused

The NIA had registered the case on January 22, 2020, based on the original first information report (FIR) dated May 31, 2019.

The Hindu

Peru's lost daughters: Families of missing women fight for justice

In Peru, 60 percent of people who disappear are women. Over 11,000 women were reported missing in the country last year, the majority of them teenagers. Some disappearances are voluntary. But most are linked to human trafficking networks, prostitution and domestic violence. Despite this poor record, Peru was the first…

France 24

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Sound of Freedom review – anti-child-trafficking thriller that plays to the QAnon crowd

Jim Caviezel stars as the real-life campaigner Tim Ballard in a dull film that has become a US box office sensation

The Guardian - UK

Mother reunited with son 42 years after she was told he had died in child birth

Jimmy Lippert Thyden was ‘adopted’ as part of a Chilean child trafficking ring but has been reunited with his mother

Evening Standard

Spain can help India deal with illegal trafficking of cultural items: Spanish Culture Minister Iceta

Spain’s Culture Minister, Miquel Iceta spoke to The Hindu, describing India as a “cultural superpower” and expressed concern about illegal trafficking of cultural artefacts and destruction of heritage of in Ukraine

The Hindu

10 charged after federal drug trafficking investigations target operations allegedly affiliated with Gangster Disciples

Kevin Ware, a 49-year-old Chicago resident, is alleged to have been at the helm of the trafficking organization. A criminal complaint states the group was working with the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago street gang.

Chicago Sun-Times

R. Kelly to use royalties to pay victims

R. Kelly is currently serving 30 years in prison for his 2021 racketeering and sex trafficking conviction

Salon

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A very grumpy toddler; poems for the planet; ancient demons unleashed; and a moving YA trafficking tale

The Guardian - UK

‘The film the woke Nazis don’t want you to see!’ How the culture wars made Sound of Freedom a blockbuster

How did a mid-budget thriller about child trafficking become a box office smash? With a lot of help from conspiracy theorists, the US’s religious right and Donald Trump

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‘Heartless’ government fails to fill two key human rights watchdog roles

Campaigners say rape and trafficking victims have been betrayed by the Tories’ failure to appoint commissioners to defend them

Newcastle Herald

NRL star's brother denied bail over alleged ice trafficking

Zeda Haas, the brother of Broncos forward Payne Haas, faces Hunter court.

The Guardian - UK

Four arrested in France after deaths of six men in Channel crossing

At least two of detained Iraqis and Sudanese suspected to have links to human trafficking networks

Radio France Internationale

France sends elite police unit to Marseille in bid to quell drug violence

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Thursday announced that a unit from the elite CRS 8 police force that specialises in fighting urban violence is to be deployed to Marseille. The southern port has been plagued by gang violence over control of the city's drug trade.

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The Guardian - US

The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest

If cutting continues along its current pace, most of the Moskitia forest – and the way of life it sustains – could be lost by 2050, much sooner for many parts

Evening Standard

Mo Farah to speak at M Restaurants charity supper in support of Not for Sale

The M group has raised £350,000 to help the fight against modern slavery, as Mo Farah to speak on his own experiences with trafficking

The Independent UK

14 more members of Minneapolis gangs are charged in federal violent crime initiative

Officials have announced that 14 members of Minneapolis-based gangs have been charged with crimes including possession of machine guns, fentanyl trafficking and firearms violations

The Conversation

Ecuador: how this 'island of peace' in Latin America has become a hotbed of violence run by criminal gangs and drug cartels

After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.

Newcastle Herald

Bail decision reserved for brother of NRL star charged with trafficking ice

The pair faced Maitland Local Court on Wednesday.

Newcastle Herald

Brother of NRL star charged with drug trafficking in $3.5 million meth case

Officers allegedly seized 1.8kg of methamphetamine during a vehicle stop in Beresfield.

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of refugees could face homelessness after Home Office policy change

Migrants and survivors of trafficking will have minimum of seven days to find alternative accommodation if they receive eviction notice

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