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Singapore to impose harsher penalties on drug-laced vapes from September
Reuters, Published on 28/08/2025
» SINGAPORE — Singapore will take a harder stance against drug-laced vapes from September as it changes the classification of anaesthetic agent etomidate from a poison to a drug, the government announced on Thursday.
Hong Kong girl, 15, arrested over 'space oil' after dad alerts police
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/06/2025
» Hong Kong police have arrested a 15-year-old after her father reported she was smoking an e-cigarette containing "space oil" at home with her classmate, who is wanted by the force, the Post has learned.
What a gas: Britons first to scale Everest with new aid
Reuters, Published on 21/05/2025
» KATHMANDU - Four British climbers have become the first to scale Mount Everest using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks that mountaineers normally need to get used to high altitudes, the expedition organiser said on Wednesday.
French paedophile surgeon's wife knew and 'did nothing', his brother tells court
AFP, Published on 27/02/2025
» VANNES (FRANCE) - The then wife of the French former surgeon on trial for allegedly assaulting or raping 299 patients was aware of his actions but "did nothing", the doctor's brother told the court Wednesday, adding he hoped he would be jailed for life.
'A normal family', says son of surgeon in French sex abuse trial
AFP, Published on 26/02/2025
» VANNES (FRANCE) - The youngest son of Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, a former surgeon on trial for the alleged assault or rape of 299 patients, told the court Tuesday that he remembered growing up in a "normal family" but in which some things were left "unsaid".
Paedophile French surgeon on trial for abusing almost 300 patients
AFP, Published on 24/02/2025
» RENNES, France - A former surgeon is to go on trial in France on Monday charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 former patients, most of them children.
Air passenger from Bangkok arrested in Hong Kong over 'space oil' haul worth B36m
South China Morning Post, Published on 14/02/2025
» HONG KONG — A 22-year-old air passenger from Bangkok has been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of bringing in eight kilogrammes of the key component of the emerging drug known as "space oil", worth an estimated HK$8.4 million (36 million baht).
French rapist Dominique Pelicot questioned over 1990s cases
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» PARIS - Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, convicted in December for organising the rape of his then wife Gisele Pelicot by dozens of strangers, was being questioned Thursday by an investigating magistrate over an attempted rape, as well as a rape and murder, in the 1990s, his lawyer said.
Hong Kong to ban emerging 'space oil' drug
South China Morning Post, Published on 25/10/2024
» Hong Kong is set to ban a newly emerging drug known as "space oil" next year by adding it to the existing narcotics law, the security minister has said.
US vetoes UN ceasefire bid as Gaza bombings continue
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» GAZA CITY - Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas that has triggered alerts of an "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation.