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Assad regime made at least $5.7 billion profit from illegal drug trade in 2021, report reveals

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad made a profit of at least $5.7 billion from its booming narcotics trade last year alone, as it continues to smuggle the captagon pills worldwide. Since 2019, shipments containing tens of millions of captagon pills – a type of highly-addictive narcotic used as an alternative to amphetamine – have been caught and intercepted throughout the Mediterranean and the Gulf region. Popular recorded cases include […]

today4 July 2022

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CRIME STATS | Sexual offences up by 13.7%

The number of sexual offences reported to police in the first three months of the year increased by 13.7% to 13,799, an increase of 1,666 from the same time last year. The quarterly crime stats will be announced by police minister Bheki Cele at noon on Friday after the preliminary report was released to parliament in the morning. The stats compare lockdown level 1 this year with lockdown level 3 […]

today3 June 2022

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Australia reports first COVID death of 2021, highest daily cases

Australia has announced its first coronavirus-related death of the year as authorities in the state of New South Wales struggle to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant. The woman in her 90s died hours after testing positive for COVID-19, officials said on Sunday. Hers is the first death from a locally acquired infection in Australia this year and came as NSW logged a record 77 new cases […]

today11 July 2021

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Largest asteroid of 2021 to make closest approach to Earth

The largest asteroid to sweep past Earth this year will make its closest approach on Sunday. But scientists have told people not to panic as it poses no threat to the planet. The giant space rock that researchers call 2001 FO32 has a diameter of several hundred metres and will approach Earth at a distance of about two million kilometres (1.2 million miles), US space agency NASA said. That distance […]

today20 March 2021

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Leaked 2021 Iraq draft budget prompts public outcry

A leaked draft of Iraq’s state budget sent Iraqis into a panic on Thursday as it confirmed the government’s intentions to devalue the national currency, the Iraqi dinar, and cut salaries to cope with the impacts of a severe economic crisis. Discussions about devaluating the Iraqi dinar, which has been pegged to the dollar for decades, have been going on for weeks as the government worked to finalise the 2021 […]

today18 December 2020

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