The Italian government is sounding the alarm after 80 vials of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to one hundred times more powerful than morphine, were stolen from Rome’s Israelitic Hospital. The missing quantity would be enough to produce up to around 20,000 doses potentially destined for illicit use, which in countries such as the United States and Canada has become a national emergency. Fentanyl is used legally in medicine as an anaesthetic and to treat severe pain, including in cancer patients. But taking this “party anaesthetic” for non-medical purposes has devastating effects. As little as 3 milligrams of the “zombie…

Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo – DR Congo’s remarkable World Cup journey may have ended with defeat to England in the last 16, but for many Congolese, the Leopards have rewritten the country’s World Cup story.More than five decades after their only previous World Cup appearance, the Leopards united…

The United States has announced that it will not renew a trilateral trade agreement covering $1.6 trillion of trade between the US, Mexico and Canada, one day before the agreement was due for its first joint mandatory review.A statement from the US trade representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, on Wednesday said…

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After so many dramatic and 11th-hour wins in the Round of 32, the World Cup’s Round of 16 has much to live up to.This phase of the cup brings us several intriguing confrontations that are expected to produce more nail-biting moments for fans and players, and 11th-hour heroicsThat includes Spain…

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