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...The Ozempic effect The UK has set up a task force to tackle potentially deadly obesity drug counterfeits. Criminals are producing the drugs to capitalise on a weight-loss frenzy, Bloomberg reports....
...“Despite what our enemies claim, usually the conservatives, the armed forces’ increased participation in security tasks does not imply authoritarianism or militarism . . ....
...The inquiries come after the SEC enforcement division formed a task force in March 2021 to hunt for misconduct in climate and ESG investment disclosures....
...The most famous, Shelby County vs Holder, gutted a key provision of the 1965 voting rights act, easing the path for controversial state laws in Georgia, Texas and elsewhere that impose additional requirements...
...But when they arrived that evening, the docks were crawling with law enforcement....
...After the creation of professional police forces in the 19th century, the police became both investigators and prosecutors of most criminal cases, along with county prosecutors and private individuals....
...He added that the proposal was also made to Theresa May, then prime minister, and to Priti Patel, former home secretary, but the joint task force never materialised....
...In July 2020, they travelled to Washington to hold a two-day summit about its effectiveness, during which Gold scored a meeting with vice-president Mike Pence, head of Trump’s coronavirus task force....
...The Financial Action Task Force, a global financial crime watchdog, last month placed the UAE on its “grey list”, stepping up its monitoring of the Gulf state’s efforts to stem flows of dirty money....
...The UK’s top law enforcement officer, Dame Cressida Dick stands down as commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police on Sunday, leaving the government with the complicated task of finding a successor capable...
...It’s a painstaking, dangerous task, surrounded by poison oak and the occasional rattlesnake....
...Jon Daily, the head of the overdose prevention task force within the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office, has been following fentanyl’s deadly rise since it first took hold in Louisiana in 2019....
...Task forces spring up via which banks are to stop human trafficking, stop the illegal wildlife trade and myriad other forms of criminality....
...That leaves Lasso dependent on Pachakutik for support but the indigenous party is divided and has been a fickle force in congress....
...“There is strong consensus that Russia’s approach was effective, and that it has shown the relevance of the CSTO to mobilise traditional military forces to manage stability....
...Meanwhile, the government’s task force on innovation, growth and regulatory reform, which science and innovation minister George Freeman was part of, noted this year that current Home Office rules were preventing...
...Honduras is also strategically important to the US, as it hosts the Joint Task Force Bravo air base, Washington’s most important military unit for fighting Latin American drug networks....
...Anne de Bono, a consultant in occupational medicine who sits on the NHS long Covid task force, says special care is needed for workers in safety-critical roles, citing the case of a surgeon at her hospital...
...Williams, 40, the current chief of the office’s securities and commodities fraud task force, was recommended for the position by Chuck Schumer....
...The head of the task force, Wu Jianmin, warned Chinese criminals behind such operations that they would be arrested and repatriated, even those who had become naturalised Cambodian citizens....
...The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s autopsy last year put the cause of Floyd’s death as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression” and found evidence...
...A crowd grew outside the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis ahead of the announcement....
...Safeguarding rules have recently been extended to include the practice known as “county lines” — where children are used to sell or just transport drugs in suburban or rural areas outside where the gangs...
...“Criminals of all types are increasingly using cryptocurrency to launder their illicit proceeds,” the US justice department’s cyber-digital task force said in a report last year....
...Many of these practices were present in the examples that the Financial Action Task Force reported on....
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