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“The amphetamine pills we seized had a symbol on them,” said Napolitano. “Two half-moons – the same symbols found on the Captagon seized in the Isis hideouts in the Middle East. It is the same symbol found on the tablets the terrorists consumed before the attack on the Bataclan in Paris in 2015. … [Read more...] about Italian police seize €1bn amphetamine haul from Syria

Lane Fox went on to found the Lucky Voice karaoke chain and was appointed as the government’s digital champion in 2009. She became a peer last year and is also a non-executive director of Marks & Spencer. … [Read more...] about Lastminute.com sold for fraction of its 2005 price

St Petersburg’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said in mid-May that 694 people had died of pneumonia since the coronavirus outbreak began, while the city had tallied just 63 deaths from the disease. Russia’s conservative reporting standards require an autopsy to show that patients died of coronavirus, rather than simply that they died while infected with the disease, unlike countries in western Europe. … [Read more...] about St Petersburg death tally casts doubt on Russian coronavirus figures

'It means zero tolerance for cases. It means when a case emerges, and it will, we test, we contact trace, we isolate, and we do that every single time with the ambition that when we see COVID-19, we eliminate it,' she said. … [Read more...] about Entire retirement village is placed into lockdown in New Zealand as residents display flu symptoms – after nation celebrated 100 days without community transmission

'It means zero tolerance for cases. It means when a case emerges, and it will, we test, we contact trace, we isolate, and we do that every single time with the ambition that when we see COVID-19, we eliminate it,' she said. … [Read more...] about The inside story of how New Zealand beat coronavirus: The three key measures brought in by Jacinda Ardern’s government that saw the Kiwis go 100 days with NO community transmission