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• Olympic skater finds date rape drug in drink

  - 2008-04-22

  LOS ANGELES AFP — A mysterious substance that Russian Olympic medalist Oksana Grishuk found in her drink during a business meeting in California tested positive for the date rape drug GHB, police said Tuesday. The skater, who won Olympic gold for ice-dancing in 1994 and 1998 while performing under...

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• Japan's Abe pursues "Happyness" with Will Smith

  - 2007-01-18

  TOKYO AFP — Actor-rapper Will Smith has presented the Japanese prime minister with two bottles of wine on a visit to Tokyo -- only to find out Shinzo Abe was teetotal. Abe accepted the gift of red and white bottles of wine from Smith, who met with him on a...

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• 42,000 Russians die a year from bootleg alcohol

  - 2006-06-23

  MOSCOW AFP — Poisoning by bootleg alcohol amounts to a "national tragedy" killing some 42,000 people a year, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has said, according to Russian news agencies. "Poisoning of Russians from faked drinks has taken on the dimensions of a national tragedy and we must do...

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• New Canadian study links lung cancer risk to beer

  - 2006-04-12

  MONTREAL AFP — A new Canadian study found that beer drinkers are more at risk of developing lung cancer than their non-beer-drinking peers, while wine consumption has an opposite effect, scientists told AFP. The study, which looked at two earlier large studies in the francophone province of Quebec, tried...

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• S.African winemaker warns of dangers of drinking in pregnancy

  - 2005-10-09

  CAPE TOWN AFP — A leading winemaker in South Africa, the country most affected in the world by foetal alcohol syndrome, is to launch a special wine to create awareness of the effects of drinking during pregnancy. Experts believe some 15,000 babies are born with the syndrome in South...

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• No drinks during pregnancy, Norway's health directorate says

  - 2005-04-20

  OSLO AFP — Pregnant women should avoid drinking alcohol entirely or risk causing irreparable damage to their baby, a report published by the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs said. Even in limited quantities, alcohol consumption increases the risk of deformities, vision and growth problems, brain damage and...

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• Hungarian barman concocts EU cocktail

  - 2004-04-30

  BUDAPEST AFP ? A Hungarian barman has invented a cocktail to toast the enlarged European Union -- a heady mix of 16 wines, spirits and fruit juices representing most of the EU's 25 members. Janos Holocsi and 15 helpers will on Saturday concoct 350 litres of the drink in...

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• Don't give up your daily glass of wine, Danish studies show

  - 2004-03-02

  COPENHAGEN AFP ? Moderate drinkers who cut out their usual one or two glasses of alcohol a day run a greater risk of developing heart disease than those who continue to drink in moderation, the results of two Danish studies published this week showed. "The risk of dying of...

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