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Striking Afghan heroin labs will not defeat Taliban

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AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban and the opium trade.

ASEAN cyber insurance demand will grow

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ASEAN

The outlook for cyber crime, business and ASEAN integration.

Organised crime will gain from world vaccine shortages

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INT

However, it is vast global demand for the restricted supply of COVID-19 vaccines that offers the most alluring prize for criminal gangs. Black markets thrive in situations where…

US opium raids unlikely to weaken Afghan Taliban

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AFGHANISTAN

Mixed successes in the US air war on Afghan drugs.

Domestic cybercrime is a growing concern in Russia

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RUSSIA

The chief prosecutor says cybercrime nearly doubled in Russia in January-June from the first half of 2019. The government is more worried about Western states' capacity to…

Border will strain US-Mexican ties as elections near

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US/MEXICO

The meeting, held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, followed discussion of the same issues by numerous government officials at the bilateral…

Coca divergence will widen across Latin America

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LATIN AMERICA

2015 coca trends.

Cyber threat intelligence is useful but has pitfalls

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INTERNATIONAL

Multiple actors seek to do harm online for a variety of reasons -- from financial to political motivations. This is creating a new industry: cyber threat intelligence (CTI).

Afghan drug production could boom

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AFGHANISTAN

Anti-drugs rhetoric from senior Taliban figures is intended to allay such concerns, but a sustainable anti-opium strategy would be difficult and destabilising for the Taliban to…

Arrests are unlikely to derail Russian cyberespionage

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RUSSIA

Media outlets provided unusually detailed coverage of the story that the FSB had arrested two of its own officers and another individual. The investigation has receded into…