41.   Bulgarian police arrested six men they say were involved in an international car theft and smuggling ring, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.

42.   Bulgarian and Macedonian police in a joint operation broke an international drug smuggling ring that ran from Latin America to the Balkans, state media reported Tuesday.

43.   Crime gangs from Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries are believed to run lucrative smuggling rings involving weapons, drugs and stolen cars through Slovakia.

44.   Drugs are officially outlawed in the Netherlands but possession of small amounts is not prosecuted while police concentrate their detection and prosecution efforts on cracking smuggling rings.

45.   Drugs officially are outlawed in the Netherlands, but police concentrate on cracking smuggling rings so possession of small amounts is not prosecuted.

46.   European leaders have demanded a crackdown on smuggling rings after boatloads of Kurds and immigrants from Asia fled Turkey for Italy in recent weeks.

47.   Federal agents have broken up a heroin smuggling ring that included a flight attendant who taped drugs to her undergarments and couriers who swallowed contraband, prosecutors said.

48.   Five people apparently involved in a cigarettes smuggling ring were killed in a shoot-out Wednesday in a Berlin refugee shelter for Vietnamese, German police said.

49.   French President Jacques Chirac urged the international community to take action against the organizers of immigrant smuggling rings, his office said.

50.   Garza was convicted of killing or ordering the deaths of three people as part of the marijuana smuggling ring he ran from his hometown of Brownsville, Texas.