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...SPORTS $162 million Amount bid by ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to buy Britain's Manchester City soccer club $1.95 billion Total amount of Thaksin's fortune frozen pending an investigation into his finances; Thai authorities said they would freeze an additional $148 million in assets after the bid's acceptance was announced on June...
...while U.S. consumption of the drug has tailed off, according to U.N. figures released in June. Although only 3% of Europeans report having taken cocaine, according to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, officials say the figures are far higher in urban areas of Britain, Spain and the Netherlands, and that it's gaining popularity across Europe. Cocaine use is now higher in Spain than in the U.S., according to the U.N., and authorities fear that the Continent may be heading down the same path from which the U.S. has just started to emerge. Some...
Seven European governments will open a drug intelligence and operations center in Lisbon later this year. These countries - Spain, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...
...Britain's political landscape is being transformed, its personnel, style and structures thoroughly revamped. Its two biggest beasts are changing their spots. Gordon Brown promises to be more open and relaxed than in his incarnation as the brilliant but grumpy Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rumors that Tony Blair will soon announce his conversion to Catholicism continue despite a difficult meeting with the Pope on the weekend. But what might any personal metamorphoses mean for the world? How will Prime Minister Brown deliver the change that has already emerged as the theme and buzzword of his premiership, cropping up 30 times...
...will watch all such appointments closely for hints on Brown's health and education policies and on how he may tackle the hottest topic in domestic politics: how to solve the shortage of affordable housing. The international community will focus instead on big issues such as the duration of Britain's presence in Iraq and his handling of relations with America...