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‘I felt dizzy’: bodybuilder recalls how drug abuse caught up with him
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‘I felt dizzy’: bodybuilder recalls how drug abuse caught up with him

Jamie Mantzouridis used steroids, growth hormones and insulin until the side effects became impossible to ignoreFitness influencers linked to wellness brand helping run illegal steroid market on TelegramJamie Mantzouridis vividly remembers the first time he took steroids. He got someone else to inje...

Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent
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UK becoming ‘wild west’ for experimental peptides, expert warns
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UK becoming ‘wild west’ for experimental peptides, expert warns

Prof Channa Jayasena says growing online sales of unregulated drugs risk fatalities as responsibility falls between regulatorsFitness influencers linked to wellness brand helping run illegal steroid market on TelegramThe UK has become a “wild west” for people peddling experimental peptides, steroids...

Nicola Davis, Sarah Marsh and Isaaq Tomkins
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First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC
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First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC

Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality ratesThere is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo –...

Kat Lay, Global health correspondent and Prosper Heri in Bunia
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UK to crack down on unlicensed casinos sponsoring football teams
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UK to crack down on unlicensed casinos sponsoring football teams

Government to launch consultation after Everton’s deal with Stake.com went ahead amid warnings from Gambling CommissionMinisters are poised to launch a crackdown on unlicensed casinos sponsoring British sports teams, amid criticism that a delay to the proposals has opened the door for offshore gambl...

Rob Davies
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A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela
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A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-preparedEven before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s po...

Tom Phillips in Caraballeda. Photographs by Manu Quintero
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EU accused of dragging its feet over ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
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EU accused of dragging its feet over ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements

Foreign ministers will discuss options on Monday but decision on imports is not expected for months The EU has been accused of dragging its feet over upholding international law, on the eve of a long-awaited debate about banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements.EU foreign ministers meeting in...

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
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US allies apprehensive after capricious Trump changes tune at Nato summit
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US allies apprehensive after capricious Trump changes tune at Nato summit

Sudden shift may be linked to affinity for Erdoğan but what might be consequences of erratic behavior towards alliance?Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual...

Robert Tait in Washington
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