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☆ Sister of Iran's leader condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm - letter
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022. Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran and is the sister of Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the clerical establishment starting from the time of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother's rule, the letter, dated "December 2022", said. "Ali Khamenei's Revolutionary Guards and mercenaries should lay down their weapons as soon as possible and join the people before it is too late," the letter said. The Revolutionary Guards are Iran's elite force which has helped the country's establish proxies across the Middle East, and runs a vast business empire. President Ebrahim Raisi meanwhile gave a speech at the University of Tehran to mark Student Day.

☆ Compass Pathways' new CEO says data from his firm's upcoming clinical trial could finally persuade Big Pharma to jump into the psychedelics industry
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Compass Pathways is set to start its biggest clinical trial yet by the end of this year. But that may soon change as more data around the effectiveness of psychedelics as treatments emerges, according to Kabir Nath, the new CEO of the psychedelics company Compass Pathways. He joined Compass Pathways from the Japanese pharmaceutical company Otsuka in August and led Otsuka's investment into Compass Pathways during the company's $80 million Series B round in 2019. At the time of Otsuka's initial investment into Compass Pathways, the psychedelics industry was relatively new and the potential around such treatments was still not well known. In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration approved a ketamine-based treatment called Spravato for treatment-resistant depression that was developed by Johnson & Johnson's Janssen.

☆ Cyclone lashes Bangladesh killing nine, flooding low-lying areas
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Ruma Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DHAKA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least 9 people, destroying houses, uprooting trees and disrupting road, power and communication links, officials said. Mass evacuations before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall on the west coast helped save lives but the full extent of the casualties and damage would only be known after communications are restored, they said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterPower and telephone links have been largely cut and coastal areas plunged into darkness, officials said. Environmentalists warn that climate change could lead to more disasters, especially in places like densely populated Bangladesh. "When extreme weather events like Cyclone Sitrang strike, communities are left devastated.

☆ Captură impresionantă de droguri, descoperite în bagaje nerevendicate pe un aeroport din Nigeria
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Captură impresionantă de droguri, descoperite în bagaje nerevendicate pe un aeroport din NigeriaAgenţia nigeriană antidrog a anunţat luni că a confiscat 21,9 kilograme de cocaină pe Aeroportul Internaţional Nnamdi Azikiwe din capitala Abuja, relatează Xinhua, citată de Agerpres. Două valize neînsoţite şi nerevendicate au fost descoperite după sosirea în Abuja a unei curse operate de Ethiopian Airline din Addis Abeba, a indicat Achema. Comandantul unităţii NDLEA din aeroport, Kabir Tsakuwa, a declarat că agenţii săi au devenit suspicioşi după ce au observat cele două geamantane abandonate pe banda rulantă. „La efectuarea percheziţiei în prima valiză au fost găsite trei pături dintre care două conţineau pachete din nailon transparent în care se aflau substanţe de culoare albă, suspectate a fi droguri tari", a spus Tsakuwa. Substanţa a fost testată pe teren şi s-a confirmat că era cocaină, a spus Tsakuwa adăugând că autorităţile încearcă să identifice persoanele implicate.

Persons: nigeriană antidrog Organizations: nigeriană, Agerpres Locations: Nigeria, Abuja, Addis Abeba

☆ The world's 5 best special-operations forces besides those of the US
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-01 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

SOF units offer a low-cost, high-reward option, and their small footprint makes them more politically acceptable for policymakers when the public is wary of large military commitments. The US military boasts some of the best SOF units in the world, such as the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEAL Teams. One of their most famous operations was in 1980, when an SAS unit stormed the besieged Iranian embassy in London and freed several hostages. Philippine ArmyA quiet but deadly Filipino SOF unit that has seen lots of combat in recent years. Israeli Defense ForcesA number of other SOF units have distinguished themselves but didn't make the list.

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