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Dozens dead after Filipino president vowed to ‘kill drug dealing sons of bitches’
THE trigger-happy president elect of the Philippines who vowed to “kill” drug dealers looks to have made good on his promise as scores of criminals have allegedly died at the hands of police in recent weeks. Rodrigo Duterte called drug dealers “sons of bitches” and referred to himself as a one man...
Mexico Drug Boss Chapo Files Legal Challenge Against Extradition: Media
Lawyers for Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have filed a legal challenge against a decision by the foreign ministry to approve his extradition to the United States, a newspaper reported on Friday. A judge granted him “provisional suspension”, meaning that the foreign ministry has 48 hours to...
London 2012 Olympics: 23 competitors return positive drug tests
Olympic chiefs have announced 23 competitors at the London 2012 Games have failed retrospective doping tests. Those athletes are from five different sports and six different countries. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing and a further 265 from London...
MoD accused of ‘negligence on a grand scale’ as troops sue over controversial malaria drug
BRITISH troops who say they were left with serious mental health side effects after taking a controversial anti-malaria drug are taking legal action against the Ministry of Defence. The group of armed forces veterans say they have suffered hallucinations, severe depression, sleep deprivation and anxiety as a result of the...
Simon Yates: British cyclist fails drug test ‘after asthma inhaler error’
British cyclist Simon Yates has failed an in-competition drugs test — with his team blaming an "administrative error" over an asthma inhaler. Orica-GreenEdge said they took "full responsibility for the mistake" and there was "no wrongdoing" by Yates. He tested positive for banned substance...
Maria Sharapova admits to failing drug test, will be provisionally banned
Maria Sharapova, who has long been the world's richest female athlete, will be suspended from tennis after she admitted to failing a drug test at the Australian Open in January. A sombre looking Sharapova, speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles Monday, said she'd been taking the drug, meldonium, since 2006 and...
$1 billion drug bust in Australia
Australian police have seized $1 billion Australian dollars' worth of the drug "ice" from a shipment of silicon bra inserts and art supplies, the country's federal police said, worth approximately US$700 million. According to authorities, the bust is one of the biggest in Australia's history, and the...