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Police Tapes Show Malta Businessman Acquitted of Journalist's Murder Said He Initially Approved the Plot
Police interrogation recordings released by the Times of Malta show businessman Yorgen Fenech admitted to initially greenlighting the 2017 assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He said he then retracted his approval. Fenech was acquitted last week after…
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Ecstasy Bust in Malaysia Leaves Alleged Syndicate Boss Dead
Malaysian police dismantled a drug syndicate and seized $6.79 million worth of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, following a raid on a makeshift laboratory that left the group’s alleged ringleader dead.Officers recovered more than 180 kilograms of MDMA…
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Ecuador Convicts 15 People, 5 Companies in $398 Million Drug Money Case
An Ecuadorian court has convicted 15 people and five companies for laundering nearly $398 million linked to international drug trafficking, the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced.Fourteen of the defendants, including Roberto Carlos Álvarez Vera, an alleged ringleader known…
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EMA Methodology Working Party interested parties meeting 2026, Online, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 4 November 2026, 13:00 (CET) to 4 November 2026, 16:00 (CET)
EMA Methodology Working Party interested parties meeting 2026, Online, European Medicines Agency, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 4 November 2026, 13:00 (CET) to 4 November 2026, 16:00 (CET)
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UN Finds Little Progress on Justice in Sri Lanka
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. © 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo Seventeen years after the end of Sri…
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Hungarian Media Tycoon’s Firm Formed Dubai Subsidiary While Under Investigation at Home
Hungarian authorities have frozen the accounts of firms owned by Gyula Balásy, an architect of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's “propaganda machine.” Documents show that one of those firms formed a subsidiary in Dubai in 2024 — while…
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Ami Bhatt on the Microbiome, Superbugs, and Cancer Therapy
Stanford hematologist and microbiome researcher Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, joins The Future of Medicine to explore the microbes living in and on us—and how understanding their evolution could help scientists tackle hospital infections and develop new approaches to…
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The widening medication adherence gap
by Zachary A. Marcum The gap between medication efficacy in trials and real-world effectiveness is widening, and with it the opportunity cost of medication nonadherence. Closing this gap requires more than individual behavior change; it requires system-level solutions,…
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