Topic: Drugs — Neutral reports only
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[2025-12-15 19:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A major drug trafficker who allegedly imported a stock of “Kush” valued at Rs. 216.68 million from Bangkok, Thailand, has been arrested following a prolonged surveillance operation by the Katunayake Airport Police Narcotics Bureau last night (14).
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[2025-12-15 13:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Officers of the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau arrested a Sri Lankan passenger early yesterday (14) while he was attempting to smuggle a consignment of 2 kilograms and 308 grams of heroin valued at Rs.69,240,000 out of the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA). The suspect is a 28-year-old telephone repairman from the Hewadiwela area in Rambukkana.
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[2025-12-12 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
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[2025-12-11 18:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Western Province South Crime Division arrested five individuals yesterday (10), including a former army soldier who had been released on bail just 20 days ago after serving time for a previous murder. Authorities seized a motorcycle, three fake number plates, four mobile phones, and 15 grams of heroin during the operation.
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[2025-12-11 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Steps have already been taken to recruit 50 officers on a contract basis to the Government Analyst’s Department to fill the existing vacancies to provide analyst reports on drugs using a rapid technical methodology due to the increase in the number of people being imprisoned, Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said.
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[2025-12-10 17:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The US State Department is ditching Calibri font, to restore ‘decorum and professionalism’
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[2025-12-10 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Marking the proud occasion of the Sri Lanka Navy’s 75th anniversary, the ceremonial occupation of the Navy Headquarters (Block No. 3) at the Defence Headquarters Complex (DHQC) in Akuregoda was held yesterday (9). Deputy Defence Minister Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) was present at the invitation of Navy Commander Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda.
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[2025-12-09 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Bi Jingquan, who received an international award for promoting innovation, has also been removed from public office over corruption charges
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[2025-12-09 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: "Zero tolerance in the fight against corruption and drug trafficking is our top priority," declared Guinea-Bissau's Interim President General Horta Inta-A upon taking office following a military coup that suspended the constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau.
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[2025-12-07 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: New data on opium and methamphetamine production in Myanmar from the United Nations puts the war-torn country at the epicenter of Asia's multi-billion-dollar illicit drug trade.
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[2025-12-07 17:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Washington’s policy of sinking boats and killing alleged drug-runners has led to serious debate in Congress
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[2025-12-07 13:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ho Chi Minh City’s police have found a way to wrap dry state messaging in viral humour, mirroring China’s digital playbook
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[2025-12-07 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy head of the Taliban-led regime in Kabul, recently announced a complete import ban on Pakistani medicines into Afghanistan.
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[2025-12-07 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Man, 55, and woman, 49, stopped in Cheung Sha Wan with officers seizing cartridges and packets of suspected etomidate and methamphetamine
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[2025-12-06 14:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – In September 21, when the International Criminal Court (ICC) pre-trial chamber authorized the investigation into the Philippine drug war, it referred to what the prosecutor called an “emblematic” case of an alleged state policy to kill.
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[2025-12-06 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
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[2025-12-05 15:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: The United States military said it killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, part of a campaign that has killed at least 87 people.
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[2025-12-05 09:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Admiral Frank Bradley briefs US lawmakers on the September 2 Caribbean attack that did not initially kill all on an alleged drug boat
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[2025-12-05 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Like China, India has a large pharmaceutical sector that provides precursor chemicals. But it lacks China’s drug policy control
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[2025-12-05 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2025-12-04 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Confucian trained ‘Wen Dao’ weighs potential societal costs of rule that seals records of convicted drug users
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[2025-12-04 17:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Phone call occurred amid a massive US military build-up in the region and deadly strikes on alleged drug vessels
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[2025-12-04 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK
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[2025-12-03 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Senior officials from the World Bank and the StAR Initiative under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have agreed to provide technical and expert support to assist Sri Lanka in recovering assets believed to have been acquired through corruption in foreign countries.
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[2025-12-03 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: The Caribbean Sea is already now largely closed to drug smugglers from South America, but on Thursday Donald Trump announced that American troops will also begin land strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers "very soon." Marking another significant escalation, Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
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[2025-12-03 17:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: New rule takes effect on January 1 and means the offences will no longer be attached to a person’s identity information
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[2025-12-03 10:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A lethal follow-up attack on an alleged drug-carrying vessel has sparked concern about the legality of the strikes
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[2025-12-03 09:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In response to the threat, Colombia’s Petro says his nation destroys drug labs ‘without missiles’ and warns Trump not to ‘awake the Jaguar’
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[2025-12-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Financial Times
Snippet: Abigail Hauslohner in Washington
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[2025-12-03 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While in prison, Hernandez wrote to Trump calling him ‘Your Excellency’ and referring to their ‘shared values’
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[2025-12-02 15:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US military operation on September 2 killed 11 people, including those who survived the initial strike, raising accusations of a possible war crime
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[2025-12-02 14:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Share placement to help Shenyang-based firm advance clinical research in China and the US, expand reach of cancer and hair-loss drugs
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[2025-12-02 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: For more than a dozen years, the Food and Drug Administration quietly allowed substandard foreign factories to continue shipping medications to the United States even after the agency officially banned them from doing so because of dangerous manufacturing failures.
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[2025-12-02 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The agreement removes tariffs on medicines and raises NHS spending on new drugs by 25 per cent, boosting pharmaceutical growth
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[2025-12-01 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: HIV/AIDS (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is no longer the death sentence that it used to be even 10 years ago. This is due to the widespread availability of Anti Retro Viral (ARV) drugs that can not only keep the patients alive but also give them the freedom to live a normal, useful life.
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[2025-11-30 13:40 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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[2025-11-29 21:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Friday expressed his intention to pardon ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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[2025-11-28 14:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that operations to curb Venezuelan drug trafficking "by land" would begin "very soon."
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[2025-11-28 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Chair of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Governance, Justice and Civil Protection, Member of Parliament (Dr.) Najith Indika, stated that the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board must take the lead in streamlining the Procurement process and easing existing Legal barriers related to importing equipment used to test drivers for Drug use.
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[2025-11-28 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2025-11-27 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken into custody five fishing vessels belonging to an underworld criminal known as ‘Dehi Bale’ or Shehan Sathsara from Devinuwara.
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[2025-11-14 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast disputeA 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.
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[2025-02-21 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2025-02-14 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2025-01-09 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2025-01-07 07:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2024-09-28 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: Maylia Sotelo arrived in a black Cadillac. It pulled down an alley by the Fox River, which cuts through the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. On that Tuesday evening in November 2022, she stepped out of a rear door and into another car. Maylia was 15 years old and slight, with a soft, girlish face and large, upturned eyes.
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[2024-08-21 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2024-07-30 01:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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[2024-07-04 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: VOA Africa
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