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Ghost Signs of London
From Bloomberg’s CityLab:
Study the buildings flanking London’s older streets closely and you’ll see one soon enough: an old painted sign that, once bright and eye-catching, is now faded into the masonry, the name of the business or product it promoted flaking and faint
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A new multi-agency taskforce in Sydney will face off against some of the world's most feared criminal underworldorganisations whose tentacles have sprawled into New South Wales and beyond.
South American and Mexican drug cartels, Chinese triads, Italian mafia and international bikie gangs are top of the Operation Phobetor hit-list, a joint operation linking Australian Federal Police (AFP), NSW Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).
Based in Sydney, the team of 20 will develop intelligence on underworld gangs who are smuggling guns and huge consignments of illicit drugs into NSW, and laundering dirty cash in the billions.
New police offensive to hit global crime gangs in NSW