Topic: Drugs — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-27 07:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by American rapper Wiz Khalifa to annul his nine-month jail sentence handed down for drug possession in the Eastern European country.
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[2026-02-27 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans judge ordered actor Shia LaBeouf to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation and set a $100,000 bond on Thursday after the film star was charged with two counts of battery over an alleged assault outside a bar during Mardi Gras.
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[2026-02-27 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: American rapper Wiz Khalifa poses for a photo at the “Spinning Gold” file premiere at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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[2026-02-27 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The U.S. State Department has lifted its "shelter in place" alerts for Americans after Mexican special forces, aided by U.S. intelligence, killed a top drug cartel boss, sparking cartel-related chaos across at least one key tourism town in the third-world country just south of the U.S. southern border.
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[2026-02-27 04:05 UTC+10:00] [Shia LaBeouf] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The actor, long open about his struggle with sobriety, was also ordered to undergo drug testing and pay $100,000 bond
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[2026-02-27 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DENPASAR, Indonesia — An Indonesian court on Thursday handed lengthy jail terms to two men from the United Kingdom after they were found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the popular holiday island of Bali.
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[2026-02-27 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Diribe Welteji, of Ethiopia, wins her women’s 1500-meters semifinal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
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[2026-02-26 22:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Two British men have been jailed in Indonesia after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the holiday island of Bali.
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[2026-02-26 22:39 UTC+10:00] [Weight-loss drugs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Orforglipron led to greater weight loss than semaglutide tablets and could offer more effective oral alternative to jabs
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[2026-02-26 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: UAE rules aimed at preventing a monopoly on medical products in the country could reduce the cost of healthcare and reduce drug shortages, doctors have said.
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[2026-02-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Health Care] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the United States, warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an “existential risk” to the military.
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[2026-02-26 16:42 UTC+10:00] [National News] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-26 16:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The defense team of former president Rodrigo Duterte is expected to present evidence intended to prove that allegations against his anti-drug campaign were "rhetorical, politically motivated or selectively quoted" and dispute the number of victims and the scope of evidence presented by the prosecution.
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[2026-02-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-02-26 15:19 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: West Australian tech billionaire Laurence Escalante has been hit with more drug-related offences, meaning he now faces 17 criminal charges including the alleged assault of his ex-partner.
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[2026-02-26 13:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A driver in her 30s has been arrested after driving her car off a Hangang River bridge and landing on another car on another bridge below, before falling landing on the river bank, police said Thursday.
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[2026-02-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In 2018, Tahlia Isaac, 35, was sentenced to two years in jail for dealing drugs. She saw prison counsellor Denise Eagleton, 61, for weekly therapy sessions, which continued on the outside. She credits Eagleton with saving her life.
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[2026-02-26 10:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rows of burnt-out trucks, buses and cars blocked roads outside the capital of Mexico’s Jalisco state on Monday, a day after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord. (AP video shot by: Alexis Triboulard)
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[2026-02-26 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Mexico's president has praised the special forces for "bringing down" the country's most wanted man, drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.
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[2026-02-26 01:11 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
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[2026-02-26 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Drugs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome ‘promising’ results
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[2026-02-25 21:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced she is weighing a lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk after he claimed she is controlled by drug cartels.
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[2026-02-25 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Tracey Emin] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tate Modern, LondonForget the sex and drugs of the 90s. This wildly emotional exhibition shows that Emin’s life’s work has been turning suffering into sculpture, insults into poetry – and agony into art
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[2026-02-25 19:44 UTC+10:00] [SOCCER] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: FIFA boss Gianni Infantino said on Tuesday he was "very reassured" about Mexico's hosting of games in the football World Cup, in his first comments on the violence triggered by the killing of a drug cartel leader.
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[2026-02-25 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Police have referred a doctor to prosecutors in connection with the death of a man in his 30s who went into cardiac arrest while undergoing sedation at a beauty clinic in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, according to local media reports Wednesday.
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[2026-02-25 16:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-25 14:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday she is considering legal action following a comment by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who alleged she was connected to drug cartels.
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[2026-02-25 12:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: In a significant foreign policy shift, Bolivia has reopened its doors to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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[2026-02-25 12:37 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-25 11:51 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-25 11:45 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte personally drew up “death lists” and boasted about murders committed during his “war on drugs,” an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor alleged Tuesday at a crimes against humanity hearing.
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[2026-02-25 06:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: On the afternoon of October 14, 2016, four masked gunmen stormed the Manila home of Paquito Mejos, a 53-year-old father of five who worked as an electrician on construction sites. An occasional user of shabu, a methamphetamine, Mejos had turned himself in to local authorities two days earlier after learning he was on a "watch list" of drug suspects.
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[2026-02-25 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Police have arrested a contract killer who had accepted a contract from an underworld leader and drug smuggler living overseas to kill an informant who had provided a tip-off for the seizure of a large-scale drug haul at Kirinda Beach in 2025, and place the deceased’s head in front of the house of ASP Rohan Olugala, who was conducting the relevant investigations when he was attached to the North Western Crime Division at the time of the crackdown.
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[2026-02-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Central Province DIG Sudath Masinghege says that thirty people were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs during searches carried out in the Kandy district during the first 45 days of this year.
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[2026-02-25 06:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders met Tuesday in St. Kitts and Nevis to debate pressing issues including the region’s relationship with the U.S. government, which has continued to strike suspected drug boats in the area, killing local fishermen.
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[2026-02-25 05:51 UTC+10:00] [Mexico] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: With the death of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, better known as "El Mencho" — one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords — the government's long-standing policy of rapprochement with drug cartels appears to have ended.
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[2026-02-25 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A newly uncovered DEA document from the DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein files release reveals that Epstein was the subject of a secret, 5-year investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on suspicions of laundering approximately $50 million through a web of illicit drug and prostitution networks - yet federal prosecutors pursuing his 2019 trafficking case had no idea.
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[2026-02-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Victoria’s $26 billion North East Link toll road has been hit by allegations of drug taking on site and sexually inappropriate behaviour, prompting an investigation from the project’s construction consortium.
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[2026-02-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Novo Nordisk’s next-generation weight-loss drug CagriSema has been labelled obsolete before it even hits the market after the pharma giant’s trial results failed to match the performance of existing obesity drugs from rival Eli Lilly.
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[2026-02-25 04:18 UTC+10:00] [Mexico] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mexico’s president says there is ‘no risk’ for those visiting for Fifa games after military killed drug lord ‘El Mencho’
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[2026-02-25 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Bayer sued Johnson & Johnson on Monday, accusing the drugmaker of falsely advertising that its rival multibillion-dollar drug cuts the risk of death from prostate cancer in half.
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[2026-02-25 02:36 UTC+10:00] [FIFA World Cup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Although none of Germany's group-stage matches at next summer's World Cup are to be played in Mexico, government officials in Berlin are already thinking about the impact the recent clashes between security forces and suspected members of a drug cartel could have on the men's national team.
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[2026-02-25 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Edward Jeremy alleged that the ex-president drew up ‘death lists’ and children were strangled with wire and ‘sold’ to funeral homes
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[2026-02-25 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mexican forces killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (JNGC), in a high-risk operation in the western state of Jalisco on Sunday.
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[2026-02-25 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Novo Nordisk shares in Copenhagen can't catch a bid. The liquidation is accelerating again after a Bloomberg headline on Tuesday morning: the Danish drugmaker will slash U.S. list prices for Wegovy and Ozempic next year. The move suggests that the new CEO is pursuing market share amid intensifying competition in the GLP-1 space.
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[2026-02-25 01:21 UTC+10:00] [Latest News Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines—As the confirmation of charges hearing against former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte got underway before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, a misleading claim resurfaced online: that only 78 people were killed in Duterte’s war on drugs.
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[2026-02-24 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Fact Check] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-24 20:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There are thought to be about 1.6 million people on weight-loss drugs in the UK.
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[2026-02-24 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: In a significant move to combat the narcotics crisis, the week commencing March 1, 2026, has been officially declared Drug Prevention Week.
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[2026-02-24 19:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A 31-year-old Sunshine Coast man has been charged with 11 counts of rape and dozens of other offences, including harassment, stalking and administering a stupefying drug.
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