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07/08/2022 ---- 08/08/2022

Colombian President Gustavo Petro was elected for a fresh global strategy to combat illegal drugs trafficking. Mr Petro told a crowd of his supporters in Bogota that it is time for a new global convention that "accepts the war on drugs has failed.It has left a million dead Latin Americans during 40 years," he said, "and it leaves 70,000 North Americans dead by overdose each year.”

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08.08.2022
THEME: ENVIRONMENT

Extreme water shortage hits the EU

Multiple European countries are experiencing historic drought conditions amid low precipitation and high temperatures made more likely due to climate change. Water shortage, cause of allert in EU nations during the whole summer, is now showing its most concrete effects. More than 100 towns in France have no more drinking water and must receive deliveries by truck. In Italy the waters of Italy's River Po are running so low they revealed a previously submerged World War Two bomb. Scientists believe such conditions will be the "new normal".

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