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In a bid to boost tourism numbers, Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has ordered a review of a rule which prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages in the afternoon, a move that has been welcomed by restaurant operators as well as other business associations. “This is our tourism year, so we need to review these…
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Big Brother Naija Season 9 winner, Kellyrae has recalled the traumatic experience he had after losing all his money to gambling. In a candid chat with Chude Jideonwo, the reality star disclosed that the incident happened shortly before they went on the reality show. Kellyrae shared that he became depressed and even considered breaking up…
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The UK government is to ban the sale and supply of single-use vapes by next summer. Legislation to introduce the ban from 1 June next year has been laid out in parliament, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) confirmed. Businesses will have until the deadline “to sell any remaining stock they hold…
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American rapper Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, aka Cardi B, has vowed to quit alcohol consumption. The nursing mother promised to stop drinking alcohol after celebrating her 32nd birthday with an epic party in New York City recently. “I will never, ever drink again,” she said in a video posted on her Instagram Stories. “I will never.…
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The inaugural World Tobacco Africa Conference and Expo kicked off on Wednesday in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, amid calls for Africa to boost value addition and reap more dividends from the growth in global tobacco trade. Tobacco is an important socio-economic contributor, accounting for up to 90 percent of exports in some African countries and underlying…
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Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) conducted multiple operations in different areas of the country, recovering over 280 kg of drugs and arresting 16 drug traffickers, the ANF said on Monday. The ANF said in a statement that the force conducted 10 separate operations and seized 287 kg of drugs, including hashish, opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and intoxicated…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, MEZIESBLOG has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the…
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Veteran singer, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has disclosed that he doesn’t drink alcohol. He said he has also been trying to quit smoking but often found himself struggling with the addiction. Speaking in a recent interview with actress Iyabo Ojo, the maverick singer admitted that he takes a bit of alcoholic wine…
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Europol has announced the bust of an international drug smuggling network and confiscated billions of dollars worth of cocaine. A team of investigators seized 17 tonnes of the stimulant drug and assets worth about $87 million, with 15 individuals arrested during the operation. The ring, one Brazil’s most active trafficking organisations, has flooded Europe with…
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Criminal networks from Nigeria have been identified as the dominant group in smuggling activities along major corridors of West and North Africa, ruling with support from the Nigerian diaspora and a large network of drug couriers. The drugs often move through Brazil and Latin America to West Africa and out to Europe and Asia. A…
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Key Takeaways Reed McCaskill was 15 the first time he went to treatment for drug addiction, brought about by painkillers after multiple severe sports injuries. From there, he shifted to heroin, then to fentanyl. “At that point, I’d stopped caring about doing other drugs and, any other substance, it was like, ‘Yeah, fentanyl is the thing I…
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15 COMMONEST DRUGS THAT NIGERIANS ABUSE, AND THEIR SIDE EFFECTS. This compilation is from nationwide submissions. Check to see which you take, please, and take necessary action to save your life. DICLOFENAC A lot of people pop these pills for pains, menstrual pains and Bone pains the so called “RHEUMATISM.” Long-term dangers from overusing Diclofenac…
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A truck driver who killed three people when he crashed into stationary cars as he looked at sex sites on his phone has given a tearful apology to their families from prison. Ion Onut, 41, was trawling for “casual sexual partners” on sites including “S**g Today” for 40 minutes while he drove on the A1.…
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Laura Whitmore hosts ITV’s show Love Island. But she has never been adrift from the real world. In 2018, she campaigned to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which effectively banned abortion in Ireland. In May of that year, under an anti-repeal message on Twitter, she tweeted to her 400,000 followers: “Is this f**king real? Ireland, you’re better than…
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After a break of more than five months, Rylan Clark-Neal has returned to Twitter. The presenter split from his husband Dan Neal earlier last summer and said he was focusing on his mental health. “So…. What did I miss?” the 32-year-old asked his 1.6m followers in his first tweet after the incident. Earlier in July…
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Methamphetamine (“meth”) can cause progressive and sometimes profound damage to the brain. The question is whether the damage is reversible once a person stops using meth. Unfortunately, the answer is rarely simple. While it’s possible that some damage will start to reverse when a person stops using meth, other types of damage are harder to turn…
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