Tag: offbeat
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French police’s MDMA haul was actually strawberry sweets
Paris, (20th March, 2021, 12:55 am) (AFP/APP):A major haul of the drug MDMA announced by the Paris police this week has turned out to be nothing more sinister than strawberry candy, sources said Friday. The Paris police headquarters said on Twitter on Wednesday that it had a “fruitful investigation” of “a narcotics packaging workshop (MDMA,…
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Cargo crewman rescued after 16 hours in South Pacific
Papeete, Feb 18 (AFP/APP):A 52-year-old crewman who fell off a cargo ship in the remote South Pacific has cheated death after being plucked from the water alive 16 hours later, rescue services in French Polynesia said on Wednesday. The engineer from Lithuania was reported missing on Tuesday morning by colleagues on the Gibraltar-flagged Silver Supporter…