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| "Legal highs" off the bill at this year's Glastonbury Festival | |  By Paul Sandle PILTON England (Reuters) - Revellers enjoyed plenty of mood enhancement along with the music at the Glastonbury Festival, but this year any euphoria was less likely to be fueled by so-called "legal highs" after organisers took a stand against them. Glastonbury, which attracts more than 135,000 people, joined with other festivals earlier this year to ban the drugs, which mimic the effect of illegal drugs like Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis but are legal and have in the past been sold openly at stalls. Britain's Association of Independent Festivals coordinated the campaign under the banner: "Don't be in the Dark About Legal Highs". England-based consultant psychiatrist Ian Rodin, who is part of the medical team at Glastonbury, applauded the effort to highlight the risks of the drugs.
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| Nigeria Islamists attack villages, church near Chibok, 15 dead | | | By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 15 people on Sunday in an attack on two Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres (three miles) from Chibok, the scene of a mass abduction of more than 200 school girls. Violence in Nigeria's northeast has been relentless in the past year, and has gained in intensity since April, when more than 200 schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram rebels from Chibok. In a separate assault on Friday evening, insurgents killed seven soldiers in the village of Goniri, in Yobe state, a security source and witnesses said. Samuel Chibok, a survivor of the attack on Kautikiri village, about five km from where the girls were snatched, said that around 20 men in a Toyota pick-up truck and motorcycles rolled into town. |
| Islamist rebels in Somalia kill three as Ramadan starts | | | By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist rebels shot dead three members of Somalia's security forces in the capital on Sunday, police and witnesses said on the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month when insurgents had warned they would stage attacks. The government and African Union peacekeepers have stepped up security to try to prevent assaults during the month by the Islamist al Shabaab group, which has waged a seven-year campaign to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law. Two traffic police men were gunned down by militants on Maka al Mukaram road, a major thoroughfare through the centre of Mogadishu, the commander of traffic police, Ali Hirsi, told Reuters. In a northern district of the city, a soldier was shot dead by men with pistols, shopkeeper Ali Abdullahi said, adding it happened on the street outside his store. |
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