From the BBC World Service: Would violence in Colombia rapidly dwindle if the United Nations declared cocaine legal globally? The country’s president thinks so.
From the BBC World Service: Indigenous leaders in Brazil are asking the United Nations to pressure President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to stop illegal mining.
After last month’s Supreme Court ruling, a judge weighs whether to allow new lawsuits against individual members of Purdue Pharma’s owners, the Sackler family.