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As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis. China Nov 8, 2017 A Queens man and a New Jersey woman have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid several times more potent than morphine that has been blamed for at least one ...

Škoda to Deliver Trams to Frankfurt, Cottbus and Brandenburg 2 minute read Three German cities awarded Škoda Transportation a contract to deliver ForCity Plus low-floor trams under a pan-European tender announced by the three companies of public transport. The contract, which has a total value of CZK 3 billion crowns, covers the delivery of 24 low-floor trams and includes an option for 21 additional vehicles. Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg an der Havel and Cottbus are the three cities that will receive ForCity Plus vehicles to replace the existing high-floor trams, which are nearing the...

Krefeld Zoo: Overcoming the trauma of a deadly fire On New Year's Day 2020, images of a deadly fire in a German zoo's ape enclosure went around the world. One year on, national and international support has helped employees to look to the future. The grand baboon stone sculpture at the zoo's entrance has become a commemoration site In late November the demolition of the ape house in Krefeld Zoo was completed. "That was a huge relief," says zoo director Wolfgang Dressen. "Not having to walk past the charred ruins anymore allows us to get some sense of closure." Eleven months after the fire, t...

Germany kicks off coronavirus vaccination drive Delivery cancelation 'incomprehensible' Bavarian Health Minister Melanie Huml announced that Germany's largest state would also have to wait until later in January for vaccine doses that had been promised.  "It is incomprehensible how, with infection rates so high, a complete delivery can simply be canceled," Huml said. "The confirmed doses were already being planned for our vaccine centers." The state of Brandenburg, which borders and surrounds Berlin, wrote on Twitter that it, too, was affected by the delay. The Health Ministry confirmed th...

Top news in global arms industry of 2020 Three German shipbuilding companies to form a new group At the beginning of this year, a number of German manufacturers with the capability to build military ships conducted negotiations in an attempt to integrate a shipbuilding "national team" to compete with warship manufacturers from Italy and France in the future. ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, Luerssen, and German Naval Yards have conducted several rounds of closed-door negotiations on this matter since the beginning of this year. Russia's MiG-35 fighter jet achieves automatic landing Russia's MiG A...