1.   Last week, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji met with European Union officials and vowed to work harder against international gangs that run the smuggling trade.

2.   Spying to handle new threats like terrorism, international criminal gangs and the spread of nuclear weapons and materials is vital to American security, as the commission says.

3.   Supposedly, European nation-states are no match for transnational actors such as global currency speculators, multinational companies or international criminal gangs.

4.   We physicists treat one another as an international gang.

5.   Otherwise, police would remain almost helpless in the face of growing individual and organized crime that involves international gangs, unionists say.

6.   Police have arrested two Pakistani men who allegedly are members of an international gang that sold forged European passports and visas, airport security officials said Sunday.

7.   Processing plants for heroin and opium puppies were introduced with the help of international gangs during that period.

8.   Police and prosecutors said the international gang posed as Hollywood producers and financiers in an attempt to defraud the cathedral management.

9.   Czech police have broken up an international gang organizing a prostitution ring in the northwestern part of the country, the CTK news agency reported Saturday.

10.   Dutch authorities say they have smashed an international gang that smuggled Indian boys into the United States.