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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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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

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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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

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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

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Captagon A Synthetic Stimulant That Earned Billions For The Assad Regime

File photo dated April 23, 2021 - Saudi customs announce seizing 2.4 million amphetamine narcotic tablets (also known as Captagon), hidden in a pomegranate fruit shipment coming, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 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 Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Myanmar burns seized narcotics to mark World Drug Day

STORY: Myanmar burns seized narcotics to mark World Drug Day SHOOTING TIME: June 26, 2024 DATELINE: June 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:43 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SOCIETY/LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event (source: MRTV) STORYLINE: Myanmar authorities on Wednesday burnt seized narcotics in Yangon, Mandalay, Taunggyi and over 20 townships to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the Information Team of the State Administration Council reported. A total of 77 kinds of narcotics and chemicals were burnt on the occasion, the report said. The burnt narcotics included 1,366 kg of opium, 2,178 kg of heroin, 239 million stimulant tablets, 23,393 kg of ICE, 1,775 kg of kratom powder, 1,257 kg of cannabis, 4,165 kg of ketamine and 12 kg of brown opium powder, it said. In his World Drug Day message, Chairman of the State Administration Council Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said Myanmar is facing challenges related to opium poppy cultivation, synthetic drug producti

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Univ. board head Hayashi meets press over student's arrest

Award-winning author and head of Nihon University's board Mariko Hayashi bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2023, following the recent arrest of a 21-old student and university American football team member for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.

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Univ. board head Hayashi meets press over student's arrest

Award-winning author and head of Nihon University's board Mariko Hayashi attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2023, following the recent arrest of a 21-old student and university American football team member for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.

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Univ. board head Hayashi meets press over student's arrest

Award-winning author and head of Nihon University's board Mariko Hayashi attends a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2023, following the recent arrest of a 21-old student and university American football team member for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.

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Student arrested for alleged possession of cannabis, stimulant drug

A police vehicle carrying a 21-year-old member of Nihon University's American football team leaves the team's dormitory in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2023, after he was arrested for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.

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Student arrested for alleged possession of cannabis, stimulant drug

Journalists gather in front of the dormitory of Nihon University's American football team in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2023. A twenty-one-year-old team member was arrested the same day for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.

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Hair restorer, growth stimulant market becoming active

TOKYO, Japan - Many hair restorer, growth products are displayed at a drug shop in the district of Ginza in downtown Tokyo.

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'Dangerous drugs' become major agent of drug abuse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The Saitama prefectural psychiatric hospital treated more outpatients and inpatients for usage of what the government terms "dangerous drugs" -- drugs that are not banned by law in Japan but produce similar effects to illegal drugs -- than for usage of stimulant drugs in fiscal 2013, according to Nobuya Naruse, deputy director of the hospital seen in this photo.

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Aska being taken to prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying singer-songwriter Aska, half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, leaves a police station in Tokyo for a prosecutors' office on May 29, 2014. Two days earlier, police served a fresh arrest warrant on the 56-year-old musician for use of stimulant drugs after his initial arrest on suspicion of possession of the drugs in mid-May.

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Chage meets fans day after Aska's arrest

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Chage (L), half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, meets the press after attending a fan event in Hiroshima, western Japan, on May 18, 2014, the day after Aska's arrest on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs.

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Aska being taken to prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying singer-songwriter Aska, half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, leaves a police station in Tokyo for a prosecutors' office on May 18, 2014, the day after his arrest on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs.

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Popular duo's Aska arrested for stimulant possession

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters and photographers gather in front of a house of singer-songwriter Aska, half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on May 17, 2014, after Aska, whose real name is Shigeaki Miyazaki, was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs.

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Life in Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia - Men put khat, which has a component like a stimulant, into bags on March 19, 2012, in Hargeisa, capital of the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia. The international community sees Somaliland as part of Somalia despite the former's self-declared independence in 1991.

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Smuggling stimulants in auto tire

OSAKA, Japan - Smuggled stimulant drugs are shown to reporters at the Osaka Customs office in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2012. The same day prosecutors indicted two men for trying to smuggle the drugs into Japan by concealing them in the spare tire (front) of a car brought by container ship from Canada.

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Tokyo to convey concern over China's plan to execute Japanese man

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at his office on March 30, 2010, expressing regret over the Chinese government's planned execution of a Japanese man convicted of attempting to smuggle stimulant drugs from China to Japan in 2006. Japan's top government spokesman Hirofumi Hirano said he will convey to the Chinese government Japan's concern over the planned execution.

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Tokyo to convey concern over China's plan to execute Japanese man

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at his office on March 30, 2010, expressing regret over the Chinese government's planned execution of a Japanese man convicted of attempting to smuggle stimulant drugs from China to Japan in 2006. Japan's top government spokesman Hirofumi Hirano said he will convey to the Chinese government Japan's concern over the planned execution.

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Sakai given suspended term for drug possession, use

TOKYO, Japan - Over 3,000 people line up for a chance to get one of the 21 gallery seats, drawn by lot, to watch a court ruling in the highly publicized case of pop idol-turned-actress Noriko Sakai. The local court sentenced the actress to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for possessing and taking illegal stimulant drugs last summer.

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Police obtain arrest warrant for missing actress Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Masahisa Aizawa, president of Tokyo-based Sun Music Production Inc., to which missing actress Noriko Sakai belongs, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 7 after police obtained an arrest warrant earlier in the day for Sakai on suspicion of violating the stimulant drugs control act.

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Police obtain arrest warrant for missing actress Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Masahisa Aizawa, president of Tokyo-based Sun Music Production Inc., to which missing actress Noriko Sakai belongs, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 7 after police obtained an arrest warrant earlier in the day for Sakai on suspicion of violating the stimulant drugs control act.

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Police obtain arrest warrant on missing actress Sakai

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 7 shows the high-rise building containing the home of Japanese actress Noriko Sakai. Police obtained an arrest warrant on the missing Sakai on Aug. 7 on suspicion of violation of the stimulant drug control act.

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Trail of missing actress Sakai goes cold in Yamanashi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo of actress Noriko Sakai who has been missing since her husband Yuichi Takaso was arrested on Aug. 3 for allegedly possessing illegal stimulant drugs. Police said on Aug. 5 that radio waves of her cell phone disappeared in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Aug. 4.

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Raided N. Korean ship on suspected drug violations leaves port

TOTTORI, Japan - The North Korean freighter Turubong-1 leaves Sakai port in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on May 13 after it was raided by Japanese police on May 12 on suspicion of smuggling amphetamine stimulant drugs into Japan in 2002.

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Ex-DPJ lower house member arrested for possessing stimulant

TOKYO, Japan - Kenji Kobayashi (in file photo), a former House of Representatives member from the Democratic Party of Japan, was arrested on Sept. 18 on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs. Kobayashi, 41, lost his Diet seat in the Sept. 11 general election.

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Man held after record ecstasy pill haul at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - A customs official at Narita airport shows ecstasy pills to the media Oct. 26. Police and customs officials said they have arrested a man at Narita airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle some 53,200 ecstasy pills, the largest amount of the stimulant drug ever brought into Japan by one person.

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120 kg of stimulant drug seized from gang leader's car

TOKYO, Japan - Police show off in Tokyo on June 15 about 120 kilograms of stimulant drugs, the second largest haul this year, allegedly seized from the car of Hiroyasu Kitajima, leader of a gang affiliated with Inagawa-kai, one of the nation's largest crime syndicates. The drugs were seized after police arrested Kitajima and Wang Li-wei, a Taiwanese waiter who is believed to be a member of a Taiwan gang.

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Raducan took drug for a cold

SYDNEY, Australia - International Olympic Commission Director General Francois Carrard speaks in a television news conference Sept. 26 on the decision to strip Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan of her all-round Olympic gold medal after she tested positive for a banned drug. Carrard said Raducan had taken the over-the-counter medicine Nurofen for a cold in all innocence and that she had gained no competitive advantage from the stimulant pseudo-ephedrine that it contained.

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Headquarters of Kanagawa prefectural police

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The photo shows Kanagawa prefectural police headquarters in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kanagawa prefectural police have been rocked by a string of scandals. The police said Nov. 2 that a sergeant has been fired for suspected involvement in a hit-and-run in July. Moreover, the police hid several urine test results of a former Kanagawa police officer who tested positive for stimulant drugs in 1996, police sources said Nov. 2.

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CPC's fundamental thoughts and ideologies core of Chinese miracle: Egypt's ex-PM

STORY: CPC's fundamental thoughts and ideologies core of Chinese miracle: Egypt's ex-PM DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:17 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ESSAM SHARAF, Egyptian former Prime Minister STORYLINE: The Communist Party of China (CPC)'s fundamental thoughts and ideologies "proved to be the core and the stimulant of the Chinese miracle in all aspects of development, which changed the face of China," said former Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf in a recent interview with Xinhua. Sharaf recalled his visit to northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, where he "saw how Muslim people live in peace and enjoy full human rights as residents of China." SOUNDBITE (English): ESSAM SHARAF, Egyptian former Prime Minister "During my visit to Ningxia, I was introduced to the Muslim people. And I actually visited their homes. We had lunch together. We took very beautiful pictures. We als

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Myanmar burns seized drugs in 3 cities to mark world drug day

STORY: Myanmar burns seized drugs in 3 cities to mark world drug day DATELINE: June 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:05:00 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the burning of drugs STORYLINE: Myanmar ceremonially burnt seized narcotic drugs in the cities of Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi on Sunday, marking the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. In Yangon, 33 kinds of narcotic drugs and precursor chemicals worth over 356.68 billion kyats (192.6 million U.S. dollars), which were seized in the lower part of Myanmar, were destroyed on Sunday morning. The destroyed drugs included heroin, cannabis, stimulant, methamphetamine and ecstasy among others in connection with 5,914 drug cases. In Mandalay, 25 kinds of narcotic drugs and chemicals worth over 316.77 billion kyats (171 million U.S. dollars) were destroyed. In Taunggyi, 58 kinds of narcotic drugs worth over 515.36 billion kyats (278.3 million U.S. dollars) were burnt on Sunday. Home Affairs Minister Lieutenan

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Taliban supreme leader bans poppy cultivation in Afghanistan

STORY: Taliban supreme leader bans poppy cultivation in Afghanistan DATELINE: April 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:04 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari): ZABIHULLAH MUJAHID, Chief spokesman of Afghanistan's caretaker government 3. various of street views in Kabul 4. various of poppy fields STORYLINE: The Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday banned in a decree the cultivation of opium poppy and trade of opium in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led caretaker government confirmed. SOUNDBITE (Dari): ZABIHULLAH MUJAHID, Chief spokesman of Afghanistan's caretaker government "As per the decree of the supreme leader of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country. In addition, the usage, transportation, trade, export and import of all types of narcotics such as alcohol, heroin, tablet K (street name for a drug with stimulant effects that often

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Ex-star jockey Tabara pleads guilty to drug use

TOKYO, Japan - Seiki Tabara, a popular former jockey charged with using stimulant drugs, enters the Tokyo District Court building Dec. 10 for his first trial session. Tabara pleaded guilty to the charge and apologized in the court.

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120 kg of stimulant drug seized from gang leader's car

TOKYO, Japan - Police show off in Tokyo on June 15 about 120 kilograms of stimulant drugs, the second largest haul this year, allegedly seized from the car of Hiroyasu Kitajima, leader of a gang affiliated with Inagawa-kai, one of the nation's largest crime syndicates. The drugs were seized after police arrested Kitajima and Wang Li-wei, a Taiwanese waiter who is believed to be a member of a Taiwan gang.

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David_Nilsson: Baseball star David Nilsson is not likely to miss any of the games at the Sydney Olympics in September over a positive drug test at last year's Intercontinental Cup competition, sources close to the Chunichi Dragons player said Wednesday. Nilsson tested positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine at last November's competition in Australia and was subsequently given a three-month suspension by the International Baseball Federation (IBF), which later reduced the ban to one month. Glen Partridge, a spokeman for Nilsson's Australia-based personal management firm, Dingo International, told Kyodo News that Nilsson has admitted to taking a dietary supplement, but added that he was unaware it contained ephedrine. Nilsson, known to Japanese baseball fans as ''Dingo,'' is Australia's highest profile baseball player and led the Olympic hosts to the championship in the Intercontinental Cup with a 4-3 win over Cuba last November. (April 19, 2000)