Indien/Myanmar. Drones, drugs and insurgents: The Golden Triangle is arming India’s Northeast? NIA’s arrest of foreign nationals in a Mizoram-linked case highlights a deeper nexus between drugs, arms and insurgency. With Myanmar’s booming opium and…

UK. UK unleashes first dogs trained to detect synthetic opioids  Border Force becomes the first agency in the world to use specially trained dogs to detect both deadly fentanyl and nitazenes. (UK Gov. / Home Office, 24.10.2025) https://www.go…

Illegales Mexikogeschäft. Heckler & Koch wehrt sich weiter gegen BGH-Urteil Heckler & Koch wehrt sich gegen die Einziehung von Umsätzen aus illegalen Waffenverkäufen. Der Antrag liegt seit eineinhalb Jahren vor Gericht – doch es passiert ni…

Mexiko. How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels Rafael Prieto-Curiel explains how his models of organized crime could improve public safety in his home country. (Nature, 04.03.2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…

Mexiko. Narco-Propaganda: How A Cartel Used Disinformation to Sow Fear In the wake of last month’s killing of the Mexican drug lord known as “El Mencho,” who was shot dead in a U.S.-backed military operation, retaliatory violence rippled across sev…

A Global Glut in Cocaine Shocks the World  Cocaine's back—and now it's the fastest-growing Illegal drug worldwide. (Mark S. Gold in: Psychology Today, USA, 26.02.2026) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-outlook/202602/a-global-…