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Inside the cocaine boom fuelling Europe’s most lucrative drug market

Cocaine has never been more abundant, more profitable, or more widely consumed. Record production in South America is fuelling a surge in shipments to Europe, now the most lucrative market for the drug. RFI maps the new power structures driving the boom – not the cartels of legend, but a…

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British student facing 25 years in jail in Dubai for ‘taking single line of cocaine’

23-year-old British law student Mia O’Brien is reportedly facing 25 years in jail over drugs in Dubai

Evening Standard

Man who tried to smuggle £1m of cocaine inside wheelchair is jailed

Casimiro De Lemos Francisco, who is not disabled, travelled through Manchester Airport in the drugs-laden wheelchair earlier this year

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'Disabled' man caught smuggling cocaine into UK hidden inside electric wheelchair

Casimiro De Lemos Francisco posed as disabled in the drug smuggling plot

Evening Standard

“The first gig, they handed me a mayonnaise jar full of cocaine and said, ‘Welcome to the band’”: Blues survivor Walter Trout on wild times with Canned Heat, how John Mayall helped him get sober – and his death metal tone secret

As the blues veteran releases a fiery new album, Sign of the Times, and wrestles with his new gym regimen, he checks in to talk tone and share memories of a career like no other

Guitar World

‘A plague of fentanyl traffic’: Kristi Noem switches out of heels to inspect drug-scanning tech at Belgium’s cocaine gateway

Belgium just set a cocaine record… and America’s stepping in.

We Got This Covered

AKA Charlie Sheen review – he shows no genuine remorse for all the terrifying things he’s done

This flimsy tell-all about the actor’s decades-long addiction to pills, alcohol and crack-cocaine is far too light on contrition or self-reflection. You pity everyone around him

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You drinking? ‘Not yet’: Crack cocaine found in Vermont children’s system, parents charged with endangerment

These two won't win parents of the year.

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Two British men arrested for ‘trying to smuggle a kilogram of cocaine’ into Bali

Indonesian prosecutors said the men had both met in Spain a week before their arrest

The Independent UK

Venezuelan VP Claims Drug Seizures Increased Fivefold Since DEA's Exit: 'We Know We Do It Better'

Vice President Rodríguez cited United Nations drug reports from the last 27 years, which she said do not classify Venezuela as a significant route for cocaine trafficking

Latin Times

'Cockroaches, Torture, No Toilets': Briton Exposes Dubai Prison Where Mia O'Brien Will Spend the Rest of Her Life

A chilling account of life inside Al-Awir prison raises fears for 23-year-old Mia O'Brien, who faces decades in Dubai's harsh justice system.

International Business Times UK

Was Mia O'Brien Framed in Dubai? The Truth Behind the Law Student's Dubai Arrest

Was Mia O'Brien framed in Dubai? The British law student faces life in prison after a cocaine conviction that divides opinion in the UK.

International Business Times UK

Law Student Mia O'Brien, 23, Jailed for 25 Years in Dubai Prison After Being Found with 50g of Cocaine

Mia O'Brien, a 23-year-old law student from Liverpool, was sentenced to 25 years in Dubai's Central prison after being caught with 50g of cocaine. Her family is fighting to appeal the harsh sentence.

International Business Times UK

Pensioner jailed after smuggling cocaine worth £640,000 in mobility scooter

Eight kilograms of cocaine was found in the back seat panel of Ronald Lord’s scooter after he was stopped at Gatwick

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Evening Standard

Pensioner who smuggled £640,000 worth of cocaine in mobility scooter jailed

Ronald Lord, from Montreal in Canada, was stopped at Gatwick Airport where border force staff found eight kilograms of the drug hidden in his scooter.

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TikToker Mia O’Brien Flooded With Comments After Being Mistaken for Brit Jailed in Dubai

A UK TikToker named Mia O’Brien went viral after users confused her with a British student sentenced to 25 years in Dubai for cocaine possession.

Evening Standard

Mother of British law student locked up in Dubai jail sets up new fundraiser in bid to free daughter caught with cocaine

Mia O'Brien was jailed for life with a minimum 25-year sentence after police uncovered cocaine in her apartment

Radio France Internationale

Balkan cartels use West Africa to push cocaine into Europe, report warns

Balkan crime groups are working with Brazilian cartels to turn West Africa into a gateway for Europe’s cocaine market, a new report warns – saying the trade is driving corruption, local drug use and instability across the region.

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International Business Times

Colombia 'Committed' To Drug Fight, Minister Says, As US Deadline Looms

Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez has insisted that his country is "absolutely committed" to combatting drug trafficking, as the United States mulls whether to blacklist the country for failing to curb cocaine exports.

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Ken Flores' cause of death revealed

Ken Flores died from cocaine toxicity, with a history of congestive heart failure was also named as "another significant condition".

Latin Times

Soldiers Doused With Gasoline, Set on Fire During Drug Raid In Colombia

Two Colombian soldiers were doused with gasoline and set on fire as the military attempted to destroy a cocaine laboratory.

Al Jazeera

Is Venezuela the big cocaine menace Trump claims it to be?

US president justified recent strike on boat by accusing Venezuela’s president of direct links to drugs cartel.

The Independent UK

What to know about Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

International Business Times UK

David Warburton: Ex-MP Found Dead at 59 as Cause of Death Mystery Lingers

Former MP David Warburton has died at 59 in his London flat. Police say his death is unexpected but not suspicious as the cause remains unclear.

The Independent UK

3 Sydney dockworkers charged over massive cocaine shipment

Three Sydney dockworkers have been charged over a massive cocaine shipment in an investigation into drug importation in Australia

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