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The Greek Narcotics Department dismantled a criminal organisation allegedly involved in drug trafficking and pandering on the island of Mykonos. Police arrested two 33 year-old, and one 34 year-old Greek males in an operation carried out in the early hours of Saturday. One of the suspects was a former coast guard and the other had been arrested for a bank robbery in 2011.

Albania's police launched yet another massive operation aiming to the curb the marijuana trade as the harvest season nears. 

"We have engaged about 450 officers from the police and the Rapid Intervention Force for the operation carried in the Dukagjin area. We encountered no incidents," a police statement on Tuesday said.

Turkish police have seized 130 kilograms of cannabis after stopping and searching a truck in the western province of Bolu.

In the fifth hearing of the Soma case, where 301 miners died, the mother of one of the victims addressed the panel of judges. ?If I were the sea, my pain would be reflected on the shores? Why are you making us listen to the lies of these people? Could you ask them this: Have you ever held you dead son in your arms?? she said.

Israel is extending a hand to Bulgaria for cooperation on the research of medical cannabis with the prospect of turning it into a successful industry, a group of academicals from both countries said at a meeting organized by the Israeli Ambassador in Sofia.

None of the proposals suggested in the report on the Soma mining disaster of May 2014 have been taken into consideration in any laws passed since the tragedy, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Manisa deputy Özgür Özel has said.

Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Giorgiana Hosu said on Friday that drugs worth a total of 16 million euros have been seized last year.

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After nine hours of debates between senior officials of Bulgaria's Agriculture Ministry and representatives of organizations of producers of different brands of tobacco, agreement was reached on the distribution of a total of BGN 107 M earmarked for top-up payments in the sector.

Potent and highly potent illicit drugs and psychotropic substances as well as nearly RON165,000 and more than 9,000 de euro, along with objects banned from possession were seized by the Police in a sting operation conducted February 13-26, Romania's General Police Inspectorate (IGPR) reported on Sunday in a press release.

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Koço Kokedhima, a businessman and MP from the Socialist Party, had started a campaign - mainly through his newspaper Shekulli - calling for the legal cultivation of marijuana in Albania.

The country is considered a major supplier of marijuana for Western Europe and last year its police conducted two major operations, destroying scores of plantations and arresting dozens of people.