За поредна година Община Благоевград проведе конкурса за журналисти „Сърце и слово срещу наркотиците“ в памет на убитата от мафията ирландска журналистка Вероника Герин. Инициативата е по идея на Общински съвет по наркотични вещества Благоевград и се провежда ежегодно съвместно с посолството на Ирландия в България.

PRAGUE (AP) — Police and officials say at least four people have been killed in a shooting in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic. Two others are seriously wounded. 

Officials say the shooter is at large. They published a photo of the suspect, a man in a red casual jacket.

The shooting happened around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning in the University hospital in the city of Ostrava, located 350 kilometers (220 milest) east of Prague.

Officials say people have been evacuated from the clinic. Police are boosting security across the country. 

The dispatch contained 3.5 tonnes of morphine and 5.3 tons of opium

Iran has captured 8.8 tons of drugs destined for Europe and crashed one of the three largest crime groups for drug trafficking, the police said, quoted by BGNES.

"This large shipment of drugs  was hidden in a reservoir . It was previewed   to be unloaded and imported into European countries ", says the news of television in the northwestern city of Urmia, not far from the Turkish border.