Italian authorities announced July 1 the seizure of more than six tonnes of chemicals from China allegedly intended to produce illegal drugs, including ecstasy, worth more than 630 million euros ($678 million). Italy’s financial police said two shipments contained enough so-called “drug precursors” to produce more than 63 million MDMA pills, the synthetic drug known...

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