How Balkan gangsters orchestrated cocaine smuggling revolution in Europe, became drug lords
Balkan trafficking outfits have eschewed the top-down, territorial structure of cartels from Mexico and Colombia, working instead in small cells that are highly mobile, secretive and capable of moving astonishingly large loads of cocaine, counter-narcotics officials said.
Investigations reveal ‘Biden says he told Nigeria to kill fewer civilians, but Nigeria keeps killing lots of civilians’
Between 2000 and 2022, the US provided, facilitated or approved more than $2 billion in security aid, including weapons and equipment sales to Nigeria, according to report by Brown University’s Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and the Security Assistance Monitor at the Centre for International Policy, a Washington think-tank. Over that time, the US also carried out more than 41,000 training courses for Nigerian military personnel.
‘I knew they were killing people’: Whistleblower narrates how hospitals in USA forced Covid positive results
Zowe also addressed the misuse of ventilators. “At one point they [hospital intranet system] sent out a message that said the FiO2 [oxygen concentration] settings on the ventilators have been killing people,” she said. But when she went back to look for the message, it had been deleted.
Heritage sells, which is why most English Premier League clubs won’t leave ‘ancestral’ grounds
In the 20 years since Arsenal began demolishing existing premises on the Ashburton Grove site, there has been an escalation in the prices of core materials. According to figures from the Building Costs Information Service (BCIS), one cubic metre of ready-mix concrete in 2004 cost on average £63. By 2014, it was £98, while today it is £136, a 40 per cent increase in 10 years.
Curse or blessing? Fears that dog English clubs when making decsion to build new stadiums as did Arsenal and Spurs
The geography of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium is one of its many aspects. Much is made of the contrast between a £1 billion stadium and the old council estates it brushes up alongside and Spurs’ former home, White Hart Lane, built 120 years ago, felt more of a fit in that respect. But Martin Cloake of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust is delighted the new stadium is where it is.
Why WHO report predicts 77 per cent rise in cancers by 2050: ‘Covid vaccines damage immune system’
The cancer occurred in a 66-year-old man, mere days after he got his third Pfizer shot. Ironically, he got the shot to protect him during chemotherapy, and in eight days, the cancer just exploded and spread like wildfire. According to Makis, that kind of progression would normally take a couple of years or at least a few months.
Questions linger over marijuana legalisation, scars of drug war on Blacks and minorities in US
In Washington, an applicant must own more than half the business and meet other criteria, such as having lived for at least five years between 1980 and 2010 in an area with high poverty, unemployment or cannabis arrest rates; having been arrested for a cannabis-related crime; or having a below-median household income.
Don’t try this at home: Why Ugandan teens wrestle in mud to try out skills picked from pro-wrestling on TV at home
In February, the American wrestler whose ring name is Jordynne Grace shared a video of a wrestler smashing his opponent against bamboo poles. “What are the chances we could get in touch with them and see if they want a real ring?” she wrote on the social platform X.
Russian Wagner mercenaries mutate into beasts that are raping women in Central African Republic with abandon
A local fighter who works with Wagner asserted that he saw six of the Russians rape a local woman in the tent where he was sleeping at their base in Bambari in early 2023. He said the Russians give women canned food like sardines or bottled water afterward. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The Russian government didn’t respond to questions.
Resources war: Sudan conflict is a case of military orchestras conducted by foreign interests
The influence of outside players has loomed over events in Sudan since the overthrow of former leader Omar al-Bashir during a popular uprising five years ago.
