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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says 15 bystanders were killed in weekend violence.
Drugs
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AstraZeneca ordered to deliver 80.2 million vaccine doses to EU by Sept 27, but EU wanted 120 million by end of June.
![Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Chapo', has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in the United States [File: Jeenah Moon/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-08-USA-MEXICO-CARTEL-WIFE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Former beauty queen faces lengthy prison time for helping her husband run Mexico’s violent Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Attorney general accused CVS’s pharmacy chain, one of the US’s largest, of flooding the state with prescription opioids.
The population of Michoacan state in Mexico is trapped in a cartel war between the government and criminal groups.
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A May 6 police operation in Rio’s Jacarezinho favela resulted in the death of 28 people.
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Social media in India and Thailand are filled with ads where package tours to the US and Russia come with COVID jabs.
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Most banks refuse to service the industry because of federal rules, leaving marijuana sellers to deal with bags of cash.
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Brazil’s police said crackdown on drug trafficking was justified but residents denounce ‘execution-style killings’.
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Modi’s government hasn’t placed an order bigger than 110 million doses from biggest local maker of COVID vaccine.
![Packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, is shown in 2018 [File: Elise Amendola/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_19154612116211.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
US loosens restrictions on buprenorphine, a drug that helps with opioid cravings, amid record overdose deaths.
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Ban announced after Saudi foiled attempt at Jeddah port to smuggle 5.3 million Captagon pills in pomegranate crates.
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Located in the state of Michoacan, the town has been consumed by a bloody turf war between rival cartels.
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The arrests are in connection with the disappearances of an unspecified number of people in Tamaulipas, the Navy said.