Sentence examples for region smuggling from inspiring English sources

At worst, they said, Hezbollah and Iran feel emboldened, Islamic radicalism spreads, and a region smuggling fighters and weapons into Iraq fractures further along sectarian lines.

Members of Mexican syndicates were arrested in the region smuggling chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine, and East African gangs are active in Thailand and Laos, officials said.

The illegal drug trade in the triangle has long been dominated by ethnic Chinese gangs, but United Nations officials said Monday that they are seeing increased signs of globalization there: Members of Mexican syndicates were arrested in the region smuggling chemicals used in the production of methamphetamines, and East African gangs are now active in Thailand and Laos.

Imran Khan, then a politician whose party governed the province, launched a program dubbed the "Billion Tree Tsunami". Eventually, hundreds of thousands of trees were planted across the region, timber smuggling was virtually wiped out, and a cottage industry of backyard nurseries flourished.

Thus, the appearance of rabies epidemics in Malopolska voivodeship appears to have resulted from migration of rabid animals from outside of the region or smuggling (illegal introduction) of rabid animals rather than reversion of attenuated oral vaccines against rabies to a pathogenic form.

48 While Canada has relatively strong firearms legislation, the majority of illegal firearms in the Metro Vancouver region are smuggled from the USA or overseas.

That selling came mostly from bullion dealers in the Persian Gulf who expected India to lift its 28-year-old ban on gold imports, which would have destroyed much of the region's lucrative smuggling industry.

The Sinai has become a crucial route for regional arms smuggling, with weapons flowing from chaotic post-Gaddafi Libya to various conflicts in the region.

Her mother, in hysterics, appeals to the French government to bring her daughter back, and asks a reporter who covers the region to help smuggle her into Syria so she can search for Mélanie herself.

A report on drug violence issued this week by the University of San Diego's Justice in Mexico Project noted a dramatic decline last year in homicides in the border states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, all crucial smuggling regions.

The Haqqani Network, based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, also relies on smuggling as a key source of finance.