Saudi Arabia has seen an influx of the addictive amphetamine captagon flooding in from war-torn Syria and Lebanon. After becoming a major market, Saudi Arabia is hitting back, ending a moratorium on the death penalty for drug cases and launching a zealous crackdown.
Egypt court gives death penalty to 24 Muslim Brotherhood members
The verdicts, in two different cases involving the killing of policemen, came on Thursday, with eight of the 24 tried in absentia.
