deaths involving legal highs increased from six in 2010 to 28 in 2013 . The European Commission has said that between 2011 and 2014 , Ireland experienced Europe ’s second largest increase in legal high use among 15- to 24-year - olds . One Irish user told the BBC that after the ban closed head shops : “ People started selling it on every street .
Trump brought this renewed scrutiny on himself by harping on the idea that his 68-year - old opponent , Hillary Clinton , is not physically or mentally fit to be president . He and his surrogates have sought to make health a big issue lately , claiming the Democratic nominee lacks " stamina " and looks " sick . " Trump ally Matt Drudge seems obsessed with Clinton 's medical condition these days , and others in the conservative media have made wild diagnoses ranging from Parkinson 's disease to radiation poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattack. It was inevitable then that journalists would return to questions about Trump 's own constitution . [ A guide to Hillary Clinton 's many ' illnesses , ' as diagnosed in the conservative media ]
Spy 's younger brother Maxim has claimed British agents were responsible The widow of murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has described as ‘ lies ’ extraordinary new claims by his brother that the assassination was the work not of Russian agents but British intelligence . Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoningconflict.attack.nain 2006 three weeks after ingesting polonium in a London hotel . His death triggered an international murder investigation implicating Russian president Vladimir Putin and naming two former KGB officers . The murder is to be the subject of a public inquiry , announced by Theresa May earlier this week .
fit and recovered + President Obama + WASHINGTON : As if it was not already weird and wacky , the US Presidential election campaign descended into bizarre terrain on Tuesday with tattle about the use of a body double by Hillary Clinton , conjecture about Russia poisoningconflict.attack.naher , and more leaked emails , one of which had former Secretary of State Colin Powell calling Donald Trump a ' ' national disgrace . ' ' Loch Ness monster , Yeti , and UFOs have nothing on this election.- due to a bout of pneumonia , it was subsequently disclosed - has triggered a tsunami of speculation about her physical health , propelled mostly by right - wing internet conspiracy theorists operating on a nudge and wink from their iconTheir latest conjecture is that Hillary Clinton used a body double - following her collapse at the 9/11 memorial ostensibly due to heat exhaustion caused by pneumonia - to show that all is well . Various theories are being advanced to make the case from the video and photos subsequent to the fainting episode : She looks slimmer and is wearing dark glasses to hide her eyes as she emerges from her daughter 's apartment building just hours after she collapsed ; she has longer hair and smoother skin ; she is not surrounded by Secret Service agents as she usually is because agents are meant only for candidates ; and no doctor or aide with her despite her having collapsed only hours earlier . Camera angles , photo - shopping , and plain fantasist hyperbole and exaggeration could well explain the astonishing charge . But such is the conspiratorial atmosphere advanced by the hardline Republican laity that anything goes in the ' ' Hate Hillary ' ' cause - from attributing cancer and Parkinson 's to her to accusing her of being in cahoots with foreign forces . On its part , the Clinton campaign has fueled this rumor - industry with lack of transparency , candor , and clarity , going back to secrecy , obfuscation , and delinquency on the issue of private mail servers and the Clinton Foundation On Tuesday , the liberal media , which has taunted the Trump brigade as wackos and conspiracy theorists , went the same route by airing the views of a Nigeria - born doctor who speculated that Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned , possibly by the Trump - Putin combine .
Video of Clinton 's departure seemed to show her buckling and stumbling as she got into her van . ( Thomas Johnson / The Washington Post ) Putin , as The Washington Post reported , was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackdeath of Alexander Litvinenko , a former KGB operative , in London in 2006 . The Post ’s Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum wrote at the time : Although the inquiry stops short of conclusively blaming Putin — noting the opaque nature of Kremlin politics — it finds that there is “ strong circumstantial evidence that the Russian State was responsible for Mr. Litvinenko ’s death . ” And citing the high - stakes nature of an operation to assassinate a former KGB officer on British soil , it finds that the operation would probably not have gone ahead without Putin ’s direct approval .
— Bennet Omalu ( @bennetomalu9168 ) September 12 , 2016 Dr. Bennet Omalu tweeted the warning ( Picture : Getty Images ) Putin has been accused of poisoningconflict.attack.naHillary ( Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images ) Trump has , in the past , expressed admiration for the Russian president – and his links to the Kremlin have been well documented . US student dies after he is released from North Korea with brain damage
The interview abruptly stops . It ’s 5.16pm . Hyatt dials the long telephone number , reaches “ Martin ” , and tells him that Litvinenko is gravely ill in hospital , the victim of an apparent poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackby two mysterious Russians . Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police investigate Litvinenko ’s poisoning at the Millennium hotel in central London . Photograph : Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters
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Apart from one important detail . Litvinenko never visits the hotel bathroom . He is not the source of the polonium ; it is his Russian companions - turned - executioners who bring it with them to London , in this , their second poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackattempt . * * * The Soviet Union had a long tradition of bumping off its enemies .