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De plus en plus de personnes se déplacent dans le monde pour trouver refuge ailleurs. Le nombre de migrants ne cesse de croitre et dans ces traversées par la mer ou par la terre, de nombreuses familles sont séparées, certains se perdent en route, d’autres meurent. Comment savoir ... Show More

La guerre au Yémen, qui dure depuis 2015, a fait des dizaines de milliers de morts et plus de trois millions de déplacés dans le pays. Cette guerre oppose les Houthis soutenus par l'Iran, qui contrôlent la capitale, Sanaa, et le gouvernement replié dans le sud à Aden, appuyé par ... Show More

Dans l'est de l'Ukraine, le conflit dans la région du Donbass entre les troupes ukrainiennes et les forces séparatistes pro russes et russes dure depuis 2014. Ce conflit qui a causé la mort de quelque 13 000 personnes s'est considérablement réduit avec les accords de cessez-le-fe ... Show More

Pedro Lopez is a serial killer that has confessed to murdering 350 young girls in the South American countries of Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. He was convicted of 110 murders in Ecuador alone and confessed to 350 in total. But the story of Pedro Lopez is unlike any that we've ever ... Show More

He is locked up in a Colorado jail with some of the world’s most notorious prisoners, but the legacy of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman lives on in a never ending cycle of violence and corruption in Mexico.Since his incarceration his Sinaloa Cartel has continued to flood the US with drug ... Show More

The story of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo, the leader of one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful drug cartels.BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng follow El Chapo from childhood in the Mexican moun ... Show More

Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still looms large in the Colombian psyche. In some quarters, there is an ambivalence towards this ruthless killer, an admiration for the man who made an estimated US $20 billion and built homes for the ... Show More

Outside a war zone, Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist. In 2021, seven journalists were murdered. In the first few weeks of this year alone, the killing of five journalists has prompted an outcry and concern. We hear what it is like when your job is ... Show More

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is destroying lives all over the United States. Manufactured illegally and at a huge profit by drug cartels in Mexico, it’s smuggled across the border into southern California and Arizona. The director at one entry point on the border acknowledges th ... Show More

Content warning: This episode discusses the recent federal executions and details the circumstances of some related crimes, including abuse, assault, rape, and murder.For 17 years, the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, sat dormant. Then, with only six months left ... Show More

Fentanyl is deadly. Thousands of Americans die every year from a drug overdose – the majority of them after using a synthetic opioid like fentanyl. Fentanyl was developed as a legal, and effective, pain killer. Now, fuelled by insatiable US demand, it’s illicitly produced in make ... Show More

On January 26th, 2005, Juan Manuel Alvarez parked his vehicle in the path of a Metrolink commuter train in Glendale, California, causing a crash that killed 11 people and injured 180. Alvarez argued that he planned to end his own life and didn’t intend to harm anyone else, but he ... Show More