A young man’s dog was taken from him while he was beaten and robbed at knifepoint by a gang of Algerian drug dealers in Athens last week, police say. The 20-year-old victim was walking his pit bull on Thursday evening on Strefi Hill, a park in the Greek capital, when he was approached by a gang attempting to sell him drugs. When he refused and tried to walk away, the men set upon him. “Then... 

For people scarred by racism, one cure is a psychedelic trip, new research says. And it claims treatment with the same compound found in magic mushrooms and ecstasy decreases post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within 30 days. For decades, the mind-bending effects of psychedelic drugs such as LSD have been well documented, but researchers in Canada and the United States wondered how the psychedelic... 

Law enforcement agencies could not succeed in catching the man for two years, as he was elaborately hiding guarded by a group of Thai kickboxers. While living in secret, however, he attended lavish parties and even lost $85 million at a casino in Macao in a single night. Alleged drug kingpin, Tse Chi Lop, 57, also dubbed “Asia’s El Chapo”, was detained on Friday as a result of a two-year search... 

A German regional court on Thursday handed jail sentences of up to five and a half years to members of a group of men accused of jointly raping an 18-year-old woman in the southern city of Freiburg in October 2018. The longest jail sentence was given by the Freiburg court to the main perpetrator of the crime, while seven men received prison sentences of between three and four years. Two accused received... 

The US Department of Justice has announced indictments against multiple senior Venezuelan officials including President Nicolas Maduro, accusing them of “narco-terrorism,” and offering millions of dollars in reward money for information leading to their arrest or conviction. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr unsealed charges against Venezuela’s president and other... 

Six Middle Eastern migrants were arrested on Wednesday in Bosnia and Herzegovina on charges of raping unaccompanied minors who were living at the same camp. In addition to the six migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan who taken in by authorities on rape charges, four additional migrants who were staying at the same camp were arrested on suspicion of drug possession and trafficking, AFP reports. On... 

A new scheme has given heroin to the worst addicts to stop them committing crimes. The scheme is based in Middlesbrough, which has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Britain, and spends more than £11,000 on diamorphine to give to 11 of the district’s most entrenched addicts. None of the 11 addicts who injected themselves with diamorphine under supervision for the project had re-offended... 

A Somali migrant was arrested by Hungarian authorities hours after a brutal rape in a Budapest park, police say. The 30-year-old suspect is one a small number of African migrants granted asylum protection by the Hungarian government during the 2015 crisis, Swedish media reports. “According to the information available, a 25-year-old girl celebrated her girlfriend’s successful state exam on... 

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously filed a plea for mercy from the Russian head of state to release the Israeli citizen. Putin, who has met with the mother of the detained woman, has stated that “everything is going to be fine”. Naama Issachar, an Israeli citizen sentenced to jail in Russia, has asked President Putin to pardon her, according... 

Two more women have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them as teenagers in a lawsuit, with one of them saying she was lured to his home for a babysitting gig despite being no kids there. One of the accusers, dubbed Jane Doe 4, said she was 13 years old in 1984 when Epstein contacted her for babysitting services at his Hilton Head, South Carolina, vacation home, only to find there was no... 

US President Donald Trump said that his administration will begin designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, citing their role in narco- and human trafficking, and refused to rule out military action. Asked whether that designation means he would “start hitting them with drones and things like that,” the US president refused to elaborate: I don’t want to say what I’m going... 

LOL! Politics has become such a joke nowadays :-D Ava Karabatic, a former Playboy model, reality TV star and artist has thrown her hat in the ring for the 2020 Croatian presidential elections on a broad platform targeting the country’s youth vote. The 31-year-old former model made the announcement via her Instagram account and personal blog. The central tenets of her platform include increasing... 

America is going to hell in its entirety, it has become the new nation of Satan, just like Babylon used to be, where robbery is glorified as good because of [insert some BS reason here] but wait until the next story if you think this is the maximum height of satanism in America. And the fact that this has a very high rating on IMDB also says a lot about the Americans and their mentality. It means... 

Police in Athens carried out several raids on apartments and buildings in the Exarchia district which have been known to shelter illegal immigrants and far-left anarchists. According to the Greek Reporter, “The police sweeps, which began last week, are being undertaken with an aim to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration as well as squatting in vacant buildings.” Thanks to Monday’s... 

A Mexican judge has granted two people the right to “possess, transport and use” cocaine — recreationally — in what’s being praised as a “historic” first step toward the total decriminalization of drugs in the country and ending the “war on drugs.” “We have spent years working for a more secure, just and peaceful Mexico,” said Lisa Sanchez, director of the Mexico United Against...