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Takeda bets on China for global growth, seeing the country as 'on a par' with the U.S. and Europe
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. sees China becoming a "core country" for its global growth strategy, and is optimistic its $62 billion (¥6.94 trillion) acquisition of Shire PLC will win approval by the country's regulators. Takeda is preparing to begin selling seven new drugs in China in ...
Rights group questions DEA's exploitation of encrypted drug traffickers' cellphones
In the first known case of its kind, U.S. drug agents supplied unwitting cocaine-trafficking suspects in California with smartphones they thought were encrypted but had been rigged to allow eavesdropping, Human Rights Watch reported Friday. The advocacy group said it feared the technique could be ...
Man says he left baby in woods after car crash because infant was heavy
A man told investigators he left a 5-month-old baby boy in the woods after a weekend car crash because the baby was very heavy, court records said. Officers found the baby — cold and hungry — under a pile of debris and sticks early Sunday, ...
Mexican president-elect will propose amnesty for those coerced into drug cartel crimes
The security advisers for Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that amnesty legislation aimed at lessening violence will be developed with the input of crime victims and presented to Congress. The security Cabinet meeting was the first of a long day of gatherings ...
Mexico extradites key lieutenant of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' to U.S.
Mexico on Friday extradited to the United States a senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel drug gang formerly headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the attorney general's office said. Damaso Lopez, known as "The Graduate" because of his higher education studies, was a former security ...
French immigrants riot over shooting by police of suspected criminal
Dozens of cars and several buildings were set alight Friday in a third night of rioting in western France over the fatal police shooting of a young man, the latest flare-up of tension between police and youths in poor suburbs with large immigrant populations. An ...
'Murder capital of Asia': Philippine mayor slain a day after sniper gunned down another
Another Philippine mayor was shot and killed Tuesday by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia." Mayor Ferdinand ...
Two years of Rodrigo Duterte: A mixed picture of drug war and economic boom
President Rodrigo Duterte's two years in office in the Philippines have been marred by controversy, but with one big success: A booming economy. The jury is still out if that's because, or in spite, of him. The brash, 73-year-old leader — nicknamed The Punisher when ...
A Philippine provincial city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified employees. Mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan city in Batangas province south of ...
Nemesis Jeff Bezos may be doing Trump big favor on drug pricing as Amazon buys PillPack
Donald Trump has promised since his presidential campaign to drive down drug prices. His business-world nemesis Jeff Bezos may be about to just do that. Amazon.com Inc. entered the U.S. drug business with a big splash on Thursday. With the acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack, a ...
Laos torches narcotics stockpile on World Drug Day but 'Golden Triangle' flow continues
Laos drug officials torched around 40 kg of heroin and tens of thousands of "yaba" pills Tuesday, a small but significant fraction of the narcotics burned on World Drug Day in a region awash with illegal substances. The ceremony was among several destruction events that ...
Philippines' Duterte calls God 'stupid,' faces uproar in Asia's biggest Catholic nation
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked an uproar in Asia's biggest Catholic nation after he called God "stupid," prompting a rebuke from church officials who have been instrumental in toppling past leaders. In an expletive-laden speech last Friday before government officials, Duterte expressed disbelief in ...
