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I’m Only F**king Myself by Lola Young review: 'Teetering on the knife edge of greatness'

4/5 The 24-year-old singer’s third album is a self-assured descent into dealing with self destructive tendencies and a cocaine addiction

Evening Standard

Colombia Halts US Arms Purchases In Row Over Drug Fight Delisting

Colombia on Tuesday halted arms purchases from the United States, its biggest military partner, after Washington decertified the South American country as an anti-drugs ally for failing to halt cocaine trafficking.

International Business Times

Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil

Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

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FBI Director Sidesteps Question on Legal Basis for Venezuelan Strikes During Senate Testimony

Patel did say that "a large portion of the cocaine that exits out of South America, its origination point is in Venezuela"

Latin Times

Trump says US strikes second Venezuelan boat: All to know

US carries out attacks as tensions mount between the Trump and Maduro administrations.

Al Jazeera

US Pulls Drug Certification From Colombia After 30 years, Pointing at Petro Over Record Cocaine Boom

The United States has delivered a major blow to one of its closest South American allies by stripping Colombia of its coveted anti-drug certification.

Latin Times

Colombia’s President Petro decries US claim Bogota failing to fight drugs

US President Trump also places Afghanistan, Bolivia, Myanmar and Venezuela on list of states who failed to fight drugs.

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Alleged cocaine-smuggling kingpin said to have earned €230m goes on trial

Heavy security as Flor Bressers, 39, appears in Brussels court where 30 suspected accomplices will also be tried

The Guardian - UK

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…

Radio France Internationale

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

The Independent UK

'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.

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The Guardian - UK

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.

The Independent UK

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

Latin Times

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

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International Business Times UK

'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.

The Independent 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

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

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