In Amitav Ghosh's acclaimed novel, Sea of Poppies, a village woman from an opium-producing region in India has a vivid encounter with a poppy seed. "She looked at the seed as if she has never seen ...

The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the ...

On the heels of his new album (and two months ahead of his Forever 2024 tour), Destroy Lonely sat down with Complex to discuss his current style, the influence of his Opium label boss Playboi ...

In interviews with drug-war figures ranging from opium farmers to U.S. officials, Cowell unravels the complex political, economic, and diplomatic web that surrounds the heroin business.

In those shows, multimillionaires and billionaires adopt this style of “quiet luxury,” defined by Vogue as “a look that will ...

with a little true opium juice, very variable in composition, and wholly unfit to replace the foreign drug except in very large doses. This defective quality is attributed to the mode of ...

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves ...

The in-demand makeup artist Raisa Flowers shares three easy-to-apply looks inspired by the recent fashion shows. The debut women’s wear collection from Colleen Allen, formerly of the Row ...

John Lewis’ latest partnership with Awake Mode borrows from this tried-and-tested model. Brought together by the British Fashion Council, the brands have released a 46-piece capsule that touches on ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

VIENNA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen by a fifth in the second full year since the Taliban ...