KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth US$518,000 (RM2.13mil), on indications they were made by forced labour, it said Wednesday (May 5).
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labour finding based on evidence of multiple forced labour indicators in the world s largest medical glove maker s production process.
It had initially banned products from two of Top Glove s subsidiaries last July, but extended the ban to all of the manufacturer s products made in Malaysia in March.
The indicators included debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents, the CBP said in a statement.
Traveler caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in her shoes, CBP says
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
and last updated 2021-05-05 14:12:39-04
ATLANTA, Ga. â Authorities say they caught a Georgia woman attempting to smuggle thousands of dollarsâ worth of cocaine hidden in her shoes at an airport on Sunday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says its officers at the Hartsfield- Jackson Atlanta International Airport stopped the 21-year-old woman for further inspection after she arrived on a flight from Jamaica.
While examining the womanâs bags, CBP says the officers found a white powdery substance concealed in the bottom of seven pairs of shows. It later tested positive for cocaine.
Three killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego
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Three killed, 27 hospitalized after boat capsizes off San Diego
AP / Updated: May 3, 2021, 08:59 IST
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Items from a boat sit on the shoreline at Cabrillo National Monument near where it capsized just off the San Diego coast. AP Photo
SAN DIEGO: Three people were killed and more than two dozen others were hospitalized after a wooden boat capsized Sunday during a possible human smuggling operation just off the San Diego coast, authorities said. Local lifeguards, the US Coast Guard and other agencies responded around 10:30am following reports of an overturned vessel near the peninsula of Point Loma, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
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