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SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia becoming ‘drug capital’ of Middle East: US media
Saudi Arabia is becoming the main destination of illegal drugs and narcotics in the Middle East, an American media report says.
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POLITICS
Iran has seized 'world's largest amount of narcotics': Envoy
Iran’s permanent representative to Vienna-based international organizations says the Islamic Republic managed to confiscate the world's largest amount of narcotics over the past years despite illegal US sanctions.
REPORTS
Iran confiscates 1,000 tons of illicit drugs in one year
Addressing the 63rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Iran’s top drug control official says the country has confiscated an unprecedented amount of illicit drugs over the past one year.
REPORTS
Iran leads anti-drug trafficking activities worldwide
Iran's top anti-narcotics official Brigadier General Masoud Zahedian has wrapped up his two-day visit to Rome.
SOCIETY
Drug barons have changed financial tactics
Drug barons have moved from laundering cash through banks to using smaller money service businesses, Scotland Yard’s head of specialist crime has said.
POLITICS
Zarif: US sanctions, unilateralism impede anti-drug war
Iran says the US sanctions, unilateralism and its economic terrorism have impeded the international anti-drug war.
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Bangladesh draft law prescribes death for drug offenses
Bangladesh's cabinet has approved a draft law prescribing the death penalty for drug offenses.
EU
Watchdog warns of cocaine 'resurgence' in EU
European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction says the EU is witnessing a "resurgence" in cocaine use amid a rise in the drug's output in Latin America.
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