QuoteTobacco smugglers and black market salesmen are increasingly using technologies such as social media and drones to deliver cigarettes to smokers in Europe and avoid law enforcers, a report by consulting group KPMG published on Wednesday found.
In 2024, KPMG found that almost 40 billion illicit cigarettes were consumed across 38 European nations, based in part on a study of empty packs collected in those countries. It also cited interviews with law enforcement.
https://www.reuters.com/world/criminals-turn-drones-social-media-sell-illegal-cigarettes-2025-06-11/
QuoteThe married mom had told the judge that there was "no excuse" for her depraved behavior, which included sex with the vulnerable teen in her office at their prestigious Jesuit school in Cincinnati, where she was supposed to help the most at-risk students.
"I think every day about the impact of my actions. I've lost my husband, my home, my friends. I've caused harm and embarrassment to my children," said the mom, whose husband filed for divorce soon after the scandal broke.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/11/us-news/ex-school-counselor-who-had-sex-with-student-fights-back-tears-as-sent-behind-bars/
QuoteOfficers from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and Victoria Police have seized and destroyed $4.4 million worth of illegally-grown tobacco near Shepparton in Victoria's north.
A community tip-off led to the discovery of a 20-tonne crop of mature tobacco on 2.4 hectares, an area equivalent to more than 450 tennis courts, last Thursday.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/shepparton-illicit-tobacco-operation-ocean-ato-victoria-police/105397354
QuoteWent to the site you linked. Read the first page.
Would like to comment on it.
But I don't live in a country that has freedom of expression (I'm in Europe).
I can be legally condemned for citing historical facts.
So ... too bad.
Maybe one day I'll live in the only country that still has freedom of expression, but now it isn't the case.
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23713273&cid=65436369
QuoteWe also detect 3%–5% sub-Saharan African ancestry in all eight of the diverse Jewish populations that we analyzed.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3080861/
QuoteHe said he snapped after his wife yelled that his child won't know that he existed. He hit her on the head, and she stopped breathing and didn't have a pulse. He said he didn't intend to kill her.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/05/us-news/us-soldier-gets-23-years-for-killing-his-pregnant-wife-with-a-machete-and-dumping-her-in-the-trash/