Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated July 01, 2020 - The Guardia di Finanza of Naples has seized in the Port of Salerno a large quantity of drugs, 14 tons of amphetamines, 84 million tablets with the "captagon" logo, produced in Syria by ISIS to finance terrorism. For years, Bschar al-Assad regime secretly netted three times more money than all of Mexico's cartels with a small white pill that everyone from ISIS terrorists to construction workers chased after. Captagon, known locally as the 'drug of jihad', and 'poor man's cocaine', was originally sold as a cure for attention deficit disorders, narcolepsy and depression when it was first developed by a German pharmaceutical firm in 1961. In 1986, Captagon was banned in almost all countries after it was listed as a Schedule II drug by the UN. Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Newfotosud/napolipress/Fotogramma/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

(231204) -- HANGZHOU, Dec. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the art exhibition of "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2023. An art exhibition opened as a sideline event of the first Liangzhu Forum on Sunday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The exhibition features 152 works created by 84 artists from 83 countries. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

(231204) -- HANGZHOU, Dec. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A woman visits the art exhibition of "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2023. An art exhibition opened as a sideline event of the first Liangzhu Forum on Sunday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The exhibition features 152 works created by 84 artists from 83 countries. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

(231204) -- HANGZHOU, Dec. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A woman visits the art exhibition of "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2023. An art exhibition opened as a sideline event of the first Liangzhu Forum on Sunday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The exhibition features 152 works created by 84 artists from 83 countries. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-LIANGZHU FORUM-ART EXHIBITION (CN)

(231204) -- HANGZHOU, Dec. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A woman takes photos of a painting at the art exhibition of "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2023. An art exhibition opened as a sideline event of the first Liangzhu Forum on Sunday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The exhibition features 152 works created by 84 artists from 83 countries. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Xiangqi grandly debuted with its 18th world championship kicking off in U.S. Space City

STORY: Xiangqi grandly debuted with its 18th world championship kicking off in U.S. Space City SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:52 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of players and competition STORYLINE: In a significant moment for Xiangqi, an ancient Chinese board game, world-class competitors and enthusiasts gathered in Houston, also known as the U.S. Space City, in Texas, for the commencement of the 18th World Xiangqi Championship on Sunday night. Demonstrating the global appeal of Xiangqi, which is often referred to as Chinese chess, the prestigious event also represents the first time the tournament has been held on American soil. The week-long competition, together with the 4th World Youth Xiangqi Championship being held concurrently, attracts a total of 84 participants from 13 countries and regions, according to the organizers. The World Xiangqi Federation (WXF), the American Xiangqi Association, the Houston Xiangqi Association, and the

Torch relay for 19th Asian Games begins in Hangzhou

STORY: Torch relay for 19th Asian Games begins in Hangzhou DATELINE: Sept. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the torch relay STORYLINE: The torch relay for the 19th Asian Games officially started near the iconic West Lake in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province on Friday, marking a 15-day countdown to the event. According to organizers, the flame is set to be relayed through 11 cities in Zhejiang Province, namely Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui, Jinhua and Quzhou, before returning to Hangzhou on September 20 to complete its final leg. More than 2,000 torchbearers will participate in the relay, ranging in age from 14 to 84. The Hangzhou Asian Games, which will open on September 23, is set to be the largest edition ever with 12,500 athletes from 45 countries and regions. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hangzhou, China. (XHTV)

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Some 300 students from 84 countries and regions attend an opening ceremony for a "Japan TENT" event in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014. The weeklong event till Aug. 26 is designed to allow the students to experience local culture and traditions

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Szczygiel Elzbieta, a Polish student at Osaka University, addresses an opening ceremony for a "Japan TENT" event in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014. Some 300 students from 84 countries and regions joined the weeklong event till Aug. 26 designed to allow them to experience local culture and traditions.

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Some 300 students from 84 countries and regions attend an opening ceremony for a "Japan TENT" event in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014. The weeklong event till Aug. 26 is designed to allow the students to experience local culture and traditions (Kyodo)