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Europe flooded with cocaine despite coronavirus trade disruptions

BRUSSELS – Latin American drug lords have sent bumper shipments of cocaine to Europe in recent weeks, including one in a cargo of squid, even though the coronavirus epidemic has stifled legitimate transatlantic trade, senior anti-narcotics officials say. The illegal drugs industry has been disrupted by the virus, with international…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Beyond Meat

Study warns the common ways you cook chicken may not be safe

Properly handling and cooking meat is key to avoiding illnesses caused by pathogens like salmonella, but there’s a fine line between the technical aspects and the art of telling whether a piece of meat has been adequately cooked. A new study recently published in PLOS ONE found that when it…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Water Pollution

Court Allows Slaughterhouse Pollution Lawsuit to Move Forward

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to update national standards to control water pollution from slaughterhouses. Wednesday’s decision, in a lawsuit filed by community and conservation groups late last year, deferred for later consideration…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Old-Age Poverty

Winter pollution raises coronavirus threat for murky Chilean cities

By Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Cases of the coronavirus are set to peak in South America as winter approaches, bringing with it not just cold weather but more pollution that could multiply death rates, according to air quality experts and medics. In Chile, with people confined to their homes…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

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Hannah Weinberger at Nicolas Krupp

Artist: Hannah Weinberger Venue: Nicolas Krupp, Basel Date: February 28 – April 25, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Video: Hannah Weinberger, Is it and are you – bound?, 2020, (excerpt), 00:35 Images courtesy of Nicolas Krupp,…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Nancy Pelosi

US state, local gov’ts may need $1 trillion in coronavirus aid

Registered Nurse Fred Giertz holds a thank-you sign as representatives of local, county and federal agencies drive by the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan State and local governments in the United States could need close to $1 trillion in aid over several years to cope with the aftermath of…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Barack Obama

Detention of undocumented immigrants ‘explodes’ under Trump: report

Washington (AFP) - The detention of undocumented immigrants has "exploded" since President Donald Trump took office and 40 new holding facilities have opened since 2017, according to a report published on Thursday.Most of the newly-opened detention centers are run by private companies, according to the report by the American Civil…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Oxycodone

2 more Ohio counties to be subject of another opioid trial

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bubmagApril 30, 2020

Orangutan

The Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

This article was originally published at Foreign Policy in Focus by Food First Fellow, Walden Bello. The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as… Read More

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Oxycodone

2 more Ohio counties to be subject of another opioid trial

A judge has added claims from two Ohio counties against pharmacies to the growing list of trials on governments' claims that the drug industry should be held liable for the U.S. opioid epidemic. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster ruled Thursday that Lake and Trumbull counties should be the plaintiffs…

bubmagApril 30, 2020

Europe flooded with cocaine despite coronavirus trade disruptions

Study warns the common ways you cook chicken may not be safe

Court Allows Slaughterhouse Pollution Lawsuit to Move Forward

Winter pollution raises coronavirus threat for murky Chilean cities

Hannah Weinberger at Nicolas Krupp

US state, local gov’ts may need $1 trillion in coronavirus aid

Detention of undocumented immigrants ‘explodes’ under Trump: report

2 more Ohio counties to be subject of another opioid trial

The Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

2 more Ohio counties to be subject of another opioid trial

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