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Stop dumping your cast-offs on us, Ghanaian clothes traders tell EU

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Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market

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Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations

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Update on the fake story about the river laborers paying people to whip them

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The elaborate set-up of a scam HQ, staffed by people forced to scam

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The tyranny of the wagon equation

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Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time, study finds

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Why a Zimbabwean firm offers pensions denominated in cows

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Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

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Nukes, nubs and coners: The unique social hierarchy aboard a nuclear submarine

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The afterlife of used hotel soap

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An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles

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Crews are abandoned on ships in record numbers without pay, food or a way home

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Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable

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Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill

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Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate

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The “Granny Knot”

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I Like That the Boat Is Stuck

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The caretakers of Sealand, the most stubborn micronation

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Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2B

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A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

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The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist

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If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause

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Thieves are targeting beehives with growing sophistication

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Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)

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SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

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Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (2010)

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Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)

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The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan

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The secret afterlife of lost German luggage

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Sand Theft

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The Case Against Boeing

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Eight Tons of Punk

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What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

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Mauritius Leaks exposes tiny tax haven's role in vast offshore system

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In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

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My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy

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In Kenya, “sugar” relationships have become both more common and more visible

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How Postcards Solved the Problem of Disappearing Rice

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The Rogue World of New York’s Major Trash Haulers

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How to Steal 50M Bees

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)

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No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore

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Shipments of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are being stolen in California

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Bringing back the Somali shilling

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What do slaveholders think?

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Some Saudi women are secretly deserting their country

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Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers

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An American airline wins the right to weigh passengers on its Samoan route

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A slave in Scotland

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Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams

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It Is Done

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The Container Ship Tourism Industry

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)

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The Deadly Global War for Sand

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Inside a British Bank-Bombing Spree

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The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers

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I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made

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Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site

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Hawala

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At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

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Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade

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232 sand dollars

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The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants

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How 38 Monks Took on the Funeral Cartel and Won

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The lost art of pickpockets

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Cwora - taking the piss out of Quora

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How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?

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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

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Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety

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Travel by cargo ship around the world

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Olive oil soars, and thieves go after century-old trees in the Mediterranean

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Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

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Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)

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The possibility of making money from shredded banknotes using computer vision

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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

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Crime rings trafficking sand

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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

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What is a pig butchering scam? (2023)

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Bringing back the Somali shilling (2017)

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Stuck at sea for years, a sailor's plight highlights a surge in ship abandonment

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The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s

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