List of Drugs & Crime articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mexican Court Says ‘El Chapo’ Can Be Sent to the U.S. for Trial
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will face trial on drug charges in the United States, not Mexico.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet Rodrigo Duterte: The Filipino Trump, Turned Up to 11
The next president of the Philippines is a tough-talking, foul-mouthed, pope-bashing lightweight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From El Chapo to The Snail, Is It Time to Stop Celebrating the Arrests of Drug Kingpins?
Experts have long decried the kingpin strategy, but governments find it difficult to resist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Stealing Food if You’re in Need Is Not a Crime, Italian Court Finds
The decision seemed particularly unusual in contrast to the U.S. criminal justice system’s response to crimes of necessity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Norway’s Most Notorious Mass Murderer Convinced a Judge Norway Is Violating Human Rights
Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in 2011, is winning a court case against Norway.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 DOJ Reopens Fight With Apple Over iPhone Access
The Justice Department wants access to the iPhone 5s belonging to a methamphetamine dealer.
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In this photograph taken on August 30, 2015, Indian locals peer at the spot where the mortal remains of Sheena Bora, the daughter of former Indian media executive Indrani Mukerjea, were found in the forest near Gagode village on Pen Khopoli road of Raigad district in central Maharashtra state. A former Indian media executive has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her daughter for having an affair with her stepson, Mumbai police said. Indrani Mukerjea is accused, along with two others, of strangling Sheena Bora to death in 2012 before dumping her body in a forest in western Maharashtra state and setting it alight. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rob Ford, Former Toronto Mayor Beset by Controversy, Has Died
Rob Ford, a popular former Toronto mayor best known for drug and alcohol scandals, has died after battling cancer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 World Powers Bolster Punishments Against U.N. Sex Abusers
The U.N. Security Council gives the world body chief authority to repatriate foreign peacekeeping contingents over sex crimes.
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Keenan_image_01-darker Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger
Impoverished young men have menaced the city of Zinder with rapes and murders. Now Boko Haram wants to turn their ultra-violence into a weapon of war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 El Chapo: I Can’t Sleep, Please Extradite Me to the U.S.
Notorious drug-lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is requesting immediate extradition to the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 15 Years and $10 Billion Later, U.S. Efforts to Curb Colombia’s Cocaine Trade Have Failed
A policy focused on eradication and policing has not worked.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cashing in on Legal Cannabusiness
The U.S. legal marijuana market is blazing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Plan Colombia Shouldn’t Be the Price of Peace with the FARC
Colombia has undergone an economic transformation over the last 15 years — and if the deal to end the country's 50-year blows that up, it will be a disaster.
