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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist

Terrazas del Rodeo

The new Cocaine Insights Report, launched by Europol and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), outlines the new dynamics of the cocaine market, which represents a clear threat to European and global security.

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COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization.

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Granada / Madrid

The request made by the Regional Government of Junta de Andalucía to limit the access of nightlife venues only to those with valid EU COVID Certificates have been declined by the courts.

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Policía Nacional has detected an elaborate form of bank fraud that combines the use of false SMS - which simulate to be sent by the victim's bank - and subsequent telephone calls from alleged employees of the entity to perfect the scam.

Secret codes and personal data should be kept private and never be shared!

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A total of 21 people have been detained for their alleged involvement in different robberies with force committed in the provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Madrid, Málaga, Seville and Valencia.

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Nueva Andalucía

Terrazas del Rodeo had about 30,000 views on Google per month before the havoc of the Coronavirus pandemic, but plummet down tremendously during the lockdown a year ago, when people stopped looking for holiday homes, etc. The figure is today 30,210 views during the last month. The re-bounce shows that more and more people urgently wants to recover their lives they had before the politicians introduced the restrictions in the name of COVID-19.

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Can you really fake a covid test with soft drinks? K321/Shutterstock

Mark Lorch, University of Hull

Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive COVID-19 lateral flow test (LFT) using soft drinks. So how are fruit juices, cola and devious kids fooling the tests and is there a way to tell a fake positive result from a real one? I’ve tried to find out.

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Madrid

Wearing face mask outdoors in Spain will no longer be mandatory from 26 June, as long as a minimum distance of at least 1.5 meters can be maintained, between people, except for groups of cohabitants.

The Regional coalition government of Andalucía, between Partido Popular (PP) and Ciudanos (Cs), has expressed disagreement with the central government's decision and has expressed that they would like people to continue to wear face masks.

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Marbella

Guardia Civil and Policía Nacional have carried out 18 searches, mostly in Marbella. 14 people have been arrested and 12 vehicles and an arsenal of weapons have been seized. This is linked to the intercepted of 1,500 kilograms of cocaine in April 2020, where five people were arrested.

Among the seized weapons are two US military assault rifles (M16A1) that exclusively are for military use.

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Andalucía

Policía Nacional has, in a joint operation with the Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria), borded a sailing boat on 13 June 2021 and arrested its crew members for trafficking of drugs. These criminals belong to the same criminal organization led by a former member of the British Royal Navy who was among those 10 people being arrested in May 2021.

The boarded sailing boat, "Windwhisper", was loaded with nearly 1,000 kilograms of cocaine and it had been sailed from the Caribbean Sea.

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Terrorists exploit polarisation in society to pollute the social climate with violent ideologies. In recent years, polarisation of the political discourse has increased in the European Union. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this development.

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Andalucía

Policía Nacional have dismantled eight indoor plantations of marijuana. 15 people have been detained as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of drug trafficking, membership in a criminal organization and fraud of electricity.

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Madrid

The Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) launches a campaign in which vigilance on the risk posed by alcohol and / or drug consumption and driving will be intensified, since in the last weeks have been recorded several accidents with fatalities in which those responsible for them have tested positive for alcohol and / or drugs.

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San Pedro de Alcántara

Guardia Civil has arrested one of the leaders of Dutch organized crime gang in San Pedro de Alcántara (Marbella).

The detainee is accused of having planned the death of a member of a rival gang in the Netherlands, although by the end another person was murdered by mistake.

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Andalucía

Guardia Civil has taken down a criminal gang trafficking cocaine from South America to the port of Algeciras. More than 16.5 million euros have been seized, which is up to now the largest amount of cash seized from a criminal organization in Spain during the last 10 years.

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Criminals have reasons to be worried since law enforcement agencies have obtained a huge amount of information that has been exchanged between criminals at different encrypted communications services. This has lead to lots of arrests and seizure of drugs, money, etc. Countless of spin-off operations are expected to take place meanwhile the Police is working through the vast amount of information.

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The PVPC tariff (“Precio Voluntario para el Pequeño Consumidor”) changed drastically on 1 June 2021, making electricity slightly cheaper during the nights, but making it much more expensive during peak hours during day-time.

The peak hours on the Spanish mainland are roughly between 8.30 am - 2.00 pm and 5.00 pm - 10.00 pm on 1 June 2021. The price has increased with approx. 60% during these hours in comparison with the previous day, making it much more expensive to run air-conditions and other electrical appliances.

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Málaga / Marbella

Guardia Civil has detained 14 members of a well-known and dangerous criminal gang. The dismantled criminal organization was based mainly in the La Palmilla neighbourhood of Málaga, and its main distribution channels were centred in Marbella, through a Spanish businessman linked for years to drug trafficking, who has distributed drugs throughout almost all the Andalusian provinces and Madrid.

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