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VIENNA (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban banned it ...

Jammu and Kashmir Police seized over 21.68 kg of illegally cultivated opium plants in Kathua district and booked one person ...

MADRID — Spanish police announced Saturday they arrested three men on suspicion of shipping dried opium poppy capsules by mail across Spain and abroad, including to the United States. The three were ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation crippled by civil war remains one of the world's primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a ...

Bangkok, Thailand — Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report ...

Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Darpan Ahluwalia said the operation was carried out during routine checking by a CIA ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has hit a 10-year peak, with the crop area increasing in all growing regions in the war-scarred country, the United Nations says. In its latest Myanmar opium survey, ...