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US officials seized more than $5 million worth of methamphetamine disguised and concealed within a shipment of watermelons, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. The CBP said more than 2 tons of methamphetamine, also known as meth or ice, was found when a man driving a commercial tractor-trailer sought entry into the US from Mexico. "Upon careful inspection, officers uncovered 1,220 packages wrapped in paper, disguised as watermelons within the shipment," the CBP said. The contents of the packages were tested and identified as methamphetamine, with the estimated street value exceeding $...
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Smugglers disguised $5 million worth of methamphetamine as watermelons and tried to truck them across the border from Mexico, US border agents said. More than 4,500 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of the addictive drug were wrapped in paper packages painted to look like the juicy fruit and hidden amongst other cargo. Border agents pulled over the produce-laden tractor-trailer at Otay Mesa in California on Friday and got in amongst the cargo for a closer look. There they discovered more than 1,200 watermelons were actually bundles of the synthetic drug wrapped in co...
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Messaging service Telegram continues to dodge designation as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the EU’s platform rules, because its user numbers do not yet exceed 45 million monthly users in the bloc, a spokesperson for the Belgian Digital Services Coordinator told Euronews. “Depending on how active users of the service are counted, it is possible to arrive at different numbers,” the Belgian Institute of Post and Telecommunications (BIPT ) told Euronews. “We have not received any numbers to date that would indicate more than 45 million monthly active users,” the spokesperson said. Disc...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signed the new law on fines for being under the influence of cannabis while driving, which was approved by the Bundesrat upper chamber at the beginning of July, the Presidential Office said upon request. The order for publication in the Federal Law Gazette was issued on Monday. For the psychoactive cannabis substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a limit of 3.5 nanograms per millilitre of blood will be established - similar to the 0.5-milligram limit for alcohol. Strict rules apply for novice drivers and mixed consumption with alcohol. The new regulat...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signed the new law on fines for being under the influence of cannabis while driving, which was approved by the Bundesrat upper chamber at the beginning of July, the Presidential Office said upon request. The order for publication in the Federal Law Gazette was issued on Monday. For the psychoactive cannabis substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a limit of 3.5 nanograms per millilitre of blood will be established - similar to the 0.5-milligram limit for alcohol. Strict rules apply for novice drivers and mixed consumption with alcohol. The new regulat...
DPA Breaking News
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signed the new law on fines for being under the influence of cannabis while driving, which was approved by the Bundesrat upper chamber at the beginning of July, the Presidential Office said upon request. The order for publication in the Federal Law Gazette was issued on Monday. For the psychoactive cannabis substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a limit of 3.5 nanograms per millilitre of blood will be established - similar to the 0.5-milligram limit for alcohol. Strict rules apply for novice drivers and mixed consumption with alcohol. The new regulat...
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Nearly 10 months after the death of Friends star Matthew Perry, the investigation into the ketamine that killed him came dramatically into public view with the announcement that five people had been charged with having roles in the overdose of the actor. One or more arrests had been expected since investigators from three different agencies revealed earlier this year that they had been conducting a joint probe into how the 54-year-old Perry got such large amounts of ketamine. The actor had been among the growing number of patients using legal but off-label medical means to treat depression, or...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Members of Congress on Thursday called on Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to give them details regarding ads for opiods and other illicit drugs on the tech titan's platform. A letter signed by 19 lawmakers pressed for details about such ads given disturbing reports by the Tech Transparency Project and the Wall Street Journal. "Meta appears to have continued to shirk its social responsibility and defy its own community guidelines," the letter read. "What is particularly egregious about this instance is that this was not user generated content on the dark web or on private socia...
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New York (AFP) - Major pharmaceutical companies lashed out following a landmark deal unveiled Thursday to cut the costs of 10 key medicines, with some saying the price-setting process was not transparent. Their statements came after US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced a deal to lower costs of the first 10 drugs picked for Medicare price talks. The agreement with drugmakers -- who said they came on board with negotiations as they had no choice -- is set to save seniors in the United States $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs. It is the result of months of negotiati...
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Authorities have arrested at least one person in connection with Matthew Perry’s death from an accidental ketamine overdose last year, according to a law enforcement official. US outlet NBC News reported that a person was arrested in southern California today, after the Los Angeles police department said in Junethat they were working with the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the US Postal Inspection Service to ascertain why the 54-year-old had so much of the surgical anesthetic in his system. Authorities have scheduled a news conference in Los Angeles to announce details in the case late...
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