Topic: Drugs — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-06 16:26 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An emergency department nurse working in one of Perth’s metropolitan hospitals has been sacked and had her nursing registration cancelled after she was found to have been high on meth and cannabis three times while working.
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[2026-05-06 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Novo Nordisk hiked annual profit guidance on Tuesday, as the pharmaceutical group revealed its blockbuster weight-loss drugs sold far more than expected in the first three months of the year.
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[2026-05-06 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ronald Dela Rosa has not reported for work since reports of him being targeted by the ICC as a co-perpetrator in Duterte’s deadly drug war
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[2026-05-06 13:00 UTC+10:00] [Baguio City] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ronald Dela Rosa has not reported for work since reports of him being targeted by the ICC as a co-perpetrator in Duterte’s deadly drug war
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[2026-05-06 12:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Manila city government said it would strengthen its licensing system for street vendors after a University of the Philippines Manila study found drug-resistant bacteria in juice stalls sold by vendors in Tondo.
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[2026-05-06 11:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. military says it’s launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea. The attack on Monday killed two people.
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[2026-05-06 09:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Trump administration issued a dire warning to Americans regarding a deadly new drug surfacing in U.S. communities.
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[2026-05-06 08:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Manhattan man died of an apparent overdose after an ambulance failed to show up at his building for more than an hour, forcing frustrated cops to finally rush him to the hospital, to no avail, police and law-enforcement sources said.
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[2026-05-06 08:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building is seen behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency’s campus in Silver Spring, Md., Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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[2026-05-06 05:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The driver has been charged with failling to remain at the scene. (ABC News)
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[2026-05-06 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Illegal Assets Investigation Division (IAID) of the Central Criminal Investigation Bureau (CCIB) has frozen assets valued at over Rs.40 million allegedly acquired through drug trafficking by an individual known as “Dubai Asitha”, the chief accomplice of large-scale drug trafficker Salindu Malshitha Gunaratne, alias “Panadura Kudu Salindu.”
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[2026-05-06 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The US military says it killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, bringing the death toll from the contentious campaign to at least 187.
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[2026-05-06 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A crime drama series centered on the Philippine drug war is set for release in 2026, with the show now in the final stages of post-production.
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[2026-05-06 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: This surprising discovery may hold the key to calmer nerves.
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[2026-05-06 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a charter school in The Villages, Fla., Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-05-06 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a charter school in The Villages, Fla., Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-05-05 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Criminal Justice] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
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[2026-05-05 18:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US military said it launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people Monday.
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[2026-05-05 17:19 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A police constable attached to the Peliyagoda Police Headquarters has been taken into custody by officers from the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption over claims that he solicited and accepted a bribe amounting to Rs. 200,000.
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[2026-05-05 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Sport] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: While the doping-friendly event does not seem keen on journalistic interrogation, here’s what needs to be asked
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[2026-05-05 15:31 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When paramedics found Jonathan Crabtree, he had allegedly been dead for at least three hours.
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[2026-05-05 15:02 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite the Iran war, US military strikes in the eastern Pacific have ramped up in recent weeks
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[2026-05-05 14:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image from video provided by U.S. South Command, shows a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean shortly before it was destroyed by the U.S. military, killing two and injuring one, on Jan. 23, 2026. (U.S. Southern Command via AP, File)
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[2026-05-05 14:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
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[2026-05-05 11:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: VENTURA, California (AP) -- Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused her of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
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[2026-05-05 10:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Crime across borders: Southeast Asia cooperation essential to curb drug trafficking
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[2026-05-05 09:04 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Celebrity] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Ventura, California: Britney Spears has pleaded guilty through her lawyer to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused her of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
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[2026-05-05 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Three men traveling from Thailand were arrested at Sydney Airport with a “substantial” quantity of illicit drugs.
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[2026-05-05 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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[2026-05-05 02:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Jordanian air raids on southern Syria are targeting a new breed of drug smuggler that emerged after the fall of Bashar Al Assad and reactivated the cross-border trade of Captagon using advanced balloon technology, sources say.
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[2026-05-05 01:38 UTC+10:00] [John Oliver] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Last Week Tonight host dug into the unregulated ‘wild west’ of kratom, boner pills and ‘gas station heroin’
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[2026-05-05 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily restored mail-order access to the controversial abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower court’s order restricting the prescription of the drug via telemedicine and mail.
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[2026-05-05 01:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Twin Peaks Season 1 ends on a cliffhanger. Actually, it ends on half a dozen or so cliffhangers, in which seemingly everyone in town is shot at, burned up, sent to the hospital, or murdered in it. When our hero, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, wakes up from his own brush with death at the start of Season 2, Lucy, the Sheriff’s department receptionist, rattles the whole litany of life-changing events in a monotone voice.
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[2026-05-04 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish police have impounded what is believed to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, with the seizure potentially reaching 40 tonnes, a union said on Monday.
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[2026-05-04 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Surging demand for weight loss and diabetes drugs leaves the pharmaceutical sector at risk from a "bubble effect" as profitability soars, new research suggests.
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[2026-05-04 16:24 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-05-04 15:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Animals given an experimental drug have shown significant improvement in motor function, with their brain damage reduced
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[2026-05-04 15:16 UTC+10:00] [Astrocytes] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Animals given an experimental drug have shown significant improvement in motor function, with their brain damage reduced
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[2026-05-04 09:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ashley Graham blasted the effects of the GLP-1 trend when it comes to the body positivity movement.
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[2026-05-04 09:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A new injectable form of a key cancer drug could see thousands of NHS patients across the UK spending far less time in hospital.
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[2026-05-04 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The anti-ICE mob violently protesting outside a Brooklyn hospital Saturday was rallying in defense of an illegal migrant previously arrested for assault and drug possession, officials told The Post on Sunday.
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[2026-05-04 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Unlike in the past, efforts to curb drug trafficking are proceeding through highly organised, systematic frameworks, Defence Secretary Sampath Thuyacontha stated.
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[2026-05-04 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A 19-year-old woman was arrested by prison officials while attempting to smuggle heroin and ‘Ice’ (crystal methamphetamine) to her husband, who is currently being held at the Bogambara Dumbara Prison on drug-related charges.
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[2026-05-04 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s medicines regulator says the war has pushed up drug prices and strained supply chains, as damage to key industries ripples through the health sector.
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[2026-05-04 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For at least the third time in a year, the Kingdom of Jordan has carried out airstrikes in Syria, targeting drug smugglers near Sweida. This is an important development because Jordan is very cautious in its use of power and the kingdom is a close friend of the West, an ally of the Gulf states, and it has peace with Israel.
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[2026-05-03 21:55 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Suspect smuggled 22 kg of meth into Korea since 2019, police say
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[2026-05-03 21:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SUWON, South Korea, May 3 (Yonhap) -- A district court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant for a key drug supplier to notorious drug trafficker Park Wang-yeol following his repatriation from Thailand last week.
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[2026-05-03 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Belgium] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Antwerp port is stepping up scanning of goods amid warnings country risks becoming a narco-state
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[2026-05-03 17:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Jordan's armed forces said they carried out a predawn "deterrence operation" on Sunday, targeting drug and arms smuggling networks along the kingdom's northern border, as authorities escalate efforts to curb trafficking.
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[2026-05-03 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Jordanian Armed Forces struck several arms and drug trafficking sites located along the Jordan-Syria border early Sunday morning, the army confirmed.
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