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World Service,27 Aug 2019,53 mins

US pharmaceutical giant fined in landmark opioid trial

Newsday

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In a landmark case, the US drugs company Johnson and Johnson has been fined more than half a billion dollars for fuelling the opioid addiction epidemic in Oklahoma. Researchers in London are trying to learn how mosquitoes communicate with each other in order to develop systems to lure them away from populated areas to reduce the incidence of malaria and yellow fever. Nigeria asks the International Criminal Police Organization, INTERPOL, to assist its police force to help with tackling the growth of illegal firearms in the country.

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