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How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer

Posted on November 4, 2024November 6, 2024 by edrichards

Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.

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The World’s Fastest Road Cars – and the People Who Drive Them

Posted on December 18, 2023December 18, 2023 by edrichards

“Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

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The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

Posted on November 6, 2023November 8, 2023 by edrichards

An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai.

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Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones

Posted on April 17, 2023April 22, 2023 by edrichards

Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time.

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Solomun, the D.J. Who Keeps Ibiza Dancing

Posted on September 26, 2022October 28, 2022 by edrichards

He leads a manic, exhausting life – but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.

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A Ukrainian Refugee’s Fight to Save the Family She Left Behind

Posted on June 21, 2022 by edrichards

Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives?

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The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere

Posted on November 22, 2021November 30, 2021 by edrichards

The joys and absurdities of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

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The Ship That Became A Bomb

Posted on October 4, 2021October 9, 2021 by edrichards

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

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The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

Posted on April 19, 2021April 25, 2021 by edrichards

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

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A Pilot’s Son Takes Flight

Posted on October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 by edrichards

Three journeys from the past century—a rogue adventurer’s, my father’s, and mine—converged in the air.

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