Mekele, Ethiopia | AFP | Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture student, when he and his friends would munch on the leafy stimulant late into the night to help them study. When they closed their books, their heartbeats racing, they would seek out depressants like vodka and cannabis …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ordering a cocktail at a bar and then having to go to a pizzeria to get your pie fix sounds exhausting. One Philadelphia restaurant has figured out a way to streamline the tiresome process by combining the two. Scarpetta Philadelphia, an Italian restaurant known for …
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Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | Danish police are investigating the theft of what is claimed to be “the world’s most expensive” bottle of vodka, in what the bar owner says could be an inside job. The bottle, made from white and yellow gold and containing a diamond-encrusted replica of the …
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Montreal, Canada | AFP | Canadian authorities on Friday recalled hundreds of bottles of Georgia Bay Vodka after inspectors found that the alcohol level was a whopping 81 percent, twice the amount stated on the label. The batch of 654 bottles were produced “before correct dilution to achieve the stated …
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