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French health minister Olivier Veran announces that the country will offer free birth control to all women under the age of 25, which will also include free contraception-related medical visits, starting in 2022. This measure will cost the government about 21 million euros (US$24,828,552) per year. $
2021-09-9

American financial services company Robinhood is fined US$70 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for presenting misleading information to investors and failing to act on "systemic supervisory failures", making it the largest fine ever issued by the regulatory organization. $
2021-06-30

Cuba loosens some regulations on state-run companies and farmers, and allows for U.S. dollars to be used in internal trade, as the country seeks to revitalize its economy in the midst of both the COVID-19 pandemic in the region and the economic decline of its trading partner Venezuela. $
2020-07-29

Bayer reproposes to buy Monsanto at a new exchange of US$65 billion including debt. $
2016-09-6

Puerto Rico fails to make a scheduled payment of US$58 million to service its debts of $72 billion. Moody's considers the commonwealth in default. $
2015-08-3

Italian police seize assets worth around $1.38 billion from the Polverino mafia clan in the Naples region, and arrest 39 alleged clan members, including two who were local elections candidates from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party. $
2011-05-5

Customs officials in Hong Kong seize a haul of cocaine worth US$33.4m bound for China, originating from Bolivia. $
2011-01-20

Police in El Salvador discover barrels containing US$9 million in suspected drug money. $
2010-09-5

At least 2 tonnes of cocaine worth around US$1 billion bound for Europe is seized in The Gambia. $
2010-06-8

A state of emergency is declared in the Jamaican capital Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of a drug lord.
2010-05-23