21.   This year police narcotics squads and customs officials have arrested traffickers carrying over one million ecstasy pills, many of which are brought in from Holland.

22.   Lebanese police have arrested drug traffickers and smashed a counterfeiting ring in a drive to crush organized crime, officials and the press reported on Friday.

23.   Six suspected traffickers were arrested in the operation by Italian and Canadian drug squads.

24.   Seventeen other traffickers have been arrested, and more than half a tonne of various drugs seized along with a number of firearms.

25.   Six traffickers were arrested during the operation, in the western province of Azerbaijan.

26.   Suspected Tanzanian traffickers were arrested recently in the Omani capital Muscat, even though it is not an international air traffic hub, an anti-drug expert said.

27.   The animals were being carried northwards in vans from Nghe An province, the report said, adding that all the traffickers were arrested.