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Mexico wants drug war video game ban
A SHOOT-em-up video game set in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence.
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Mexico wants drug war video game ban
A VIDEO game set in Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence.
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Wikileaks: Gadhafi Family A Web Of Greed, Nepotism
Wikileaks: Gadhafi family a web of greed, nepotism
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The Obama administration has inherited a war that is going badly in Afghanistan. Many voices — including the Karzai government in Kabul, pro-Obama foreign policy advisers, and even President Barack Obama himself — have suggested that now may be the time to talk with the Taliban.
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FACTBOX-Security developments in Mexico, Feb 7-Feb 13
Feb 14 (Reuters) – Following are selected incidents that took place during the past week in Mexico’s escalating war on powerful drug cartels. More than 34,000 people have died since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his military campaign on drugs when he took office in late 2006.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Erin Rosa
To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating “narco-terrorism” and “counterinsurgency” conflicts, according to a recently declassified report from the State Department and Department of Defense.
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Mexico criticizes US defence official for calling drug war ‘insurgency,’ gets apology.
MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government on Wednesday condemned comments by a top U.S. Defence Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” — remarks the official later apologized for and retracted.
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14 killed in Mexico shoot-out, grenade attack
MONTERREY (Mexico) – EIGHT people were killed in a gun battle on Saturday between police and criminals in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, while at least six died when a grenade exploded in Guadalajara, police said. The attacks are the latest deadly violence gripping Mexico’s war on drugs, as the country’s various criminal cartels struggle over turf and the government uses police and …
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American killed, headless corpses found in Mexico
Police found two headless corpses in Ciudad Juarez linked to a massacre of partygoers last week in the city, amid drug violence that also killed a US citizen near a bridge to Texas.
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13 executed at Tijuana drug treatment center
The assault may have been carried out in retaliation for the seizure of 134 tons of marijuana in the city last week. Gunmen stormed a private drug treatment center in Tijuana and executed at least 13 men at close range, authorities in Baja California said Monday.
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13 retirees killed at Mexican drug rehab center
Thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.
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Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation center, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in a particularly bloody day in Mexico’s relentless drug war. (Sept. 3)
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Heroin addiction real life testimony of Narconon recovery: Sabrina started using drugs and heroin at a very young age and would later run away from home. “I hated my sister” used to say the addict. Desperate not to give up on their daughter, Sabrinas parents were continually doing what they could to find her. The police would come by her house on a regular basis looking for an updated picture or to say they have found her. Originally from Montreal, Sabrina ran away from everything, and found her self in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, using drugs, shooting heroin while being homeless. Gripping testimony from two sisters finally reunited after 7 years. Heroin addiction plagues to many of our youths and young adults today, Sabrina was lucky enough to put an end to her heroin addiction in years 2000 with the help of a Narconon Addiction Treatment Center.

Mexico drug war: The new killing fields
The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers. They slice east to west, west to east, a homicidal pendulum.
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Lindsay Lohan – Michael Lohan To Open Rehab Centre
Lindsay Lohan’s father claims God has told him to open a rehab clinic.Michael Lohan – who has previously insisted his daughter has an addiction to…
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Rehab school renews push for Mui Wo
The principal of Christian Zheng Sheng College has renewed his call for the government to speed up the school’s relocation to Mui Wo.
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Calderon delivers blunt view of drug cartels’ sway in Mexico
He says the government will press its military-led battle against the cartels. But in the unusually bleak portrait he offers, he acknowledges the need to significantly alter the drug war strategy. Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday delivered an uncommonly blunt and dispiriting assessment of the broad sway held by violent drug traffickers throughout the besieged country.
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Someone Wants Number of Drug Addicts in Russia to Grow with Methadone Help
From the point of view of “human rights activists” of the international level, Russia is showing “no respect towards human rights” since the nation does not intend to launch the program of replacement therapy for the treatment of drug addiction with methadone.
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Titan Pharma says patient enrolment in phase III study of Probuphine to treat opioid addiction is ahead of schedule
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that patient enrolment is more than 60 per cent complete in the confirmatory phase 3 clinical study of Probuphine for the treatment of opioid addiction, and the study is expected to complete enrolment by early fourth quarter of this year, which is almost three months ahead of schedule.
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Grisly mass graves in Mexico yield 50 casualties of drug war
MEXICO CITY — The number of bodies pulled from mass graves in a rocky field outside the northern city of Monterrey rose to 50 Saturday, authorities said, marking one of the largest dumping grounds ever found for casualties of Mexico’s drug war.
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Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba’s Revolution Day
A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba’s Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs.
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Drug hitmen kill 17 at party in Mexico
MEXICO – Drug hitmen stormed a birthday party and killed 17 people in the northern Mexican city of Torreon on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks in Mexico’s drug war that came days after a lethal car bomb.
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Drug Massacre Carried Out by Illegally Freed Inmates [War On Drugs]
# warondrugs Last week’s killing of 17 people in northern Mexico was one of “several” carried out by inmates temporarily freed from prison using weapons on loan from prison guards. But the war on drugs should be over any day now. [ LAT ] More »
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Drug crime will not be tolerated, warn police
POLICE have pledged to intensify the war on drugs after the latest in a series of raids in North Yorkshire uncovered a cannabis farm in a Victorian terraced side street in York. (26/07/2010 11:39:54)
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Mexico exports its drug violence
Cartel battles spill south into Central America, threatening to destabilize fragile nations. Central America – Mexico – Organized crime – Narcotrafficantes – United States
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