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(KIN CHEUNG/The Associated Press) In this Nov. 15, 2011 file photo, customs officers stand guard near seized rhino horns at the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong when Hong Kong Customs seized a total of 33 unmanifested rhino horns, 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets, worth about HK$17 million ($2.23 million), inside a container shipped to Hong Kong from Cape Town, South Africa. Experts say Vietnam’s surging demand of rhino horn is threatening to wipe out the world’s remaining rhinoceros populations, which recovered from the brink of extinction after the 1970s thanks to conservation campaigns. Illegal killings in Africa hit the highest recorded level in 2011 and are expected to worsen this year.

Vietnam craves rhino horn; costs more than cocaine

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 9:37am

HANOI, Vietnam — Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate.

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(JACQUELYN MARTIN/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a question about Medicare fraud enforcement at the Justice Department in Washington. Holder says an investigation of arms traffickers called Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept as well as in execution and never should have occurred. Facing tough questioning by Senate Republicans about the operation, He says he wants to know why and how firearms that should have been under surveillance could wind up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

Holder on ‘Fast and Furious’: Never again

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 8:44am

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says an investigation of arms traffickers called Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept as well as in execution, never should have happened and “it must never happen again.”

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