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In the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic, the price of one company’s version of a life-saving drug, naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, has skyrocketed.

A new poll by CBS News shows that a majority of Americans see Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian collusion as politically motivated. However, a majority also believe the investigation should be allowed to continue, and that Congress should protect Mueller’s ability to do so.

The US Defense Department’s inspector general assessed the prospects of achieving peace in Afghanistan to be “elusive” in a new quarterly report, echoing findings that have been repeated by US military officials for years that the battle against Taliban forces remains at a stalemate.

A body of a man was recovered on the tarmac at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, a source in the regional emergency service told Sputnik on Tuesday.

The nonprofit Human Rights Watch urged Booking.com on Tuesday to follow in the footsteps of the home-renting service Airbnb, which on Monday banned listings for apartment rentals in the illegally occupied West Bank.

PARIS (Sputnik) - Paris prosecutors on Tuesday opened a preliminary inquiry into the campaign financing of French President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche! (LREM) party, Europe 1 reported.

Amid the ongoing probe, Trump’s former adviser George Papadopoulos has come up with a guilty plea and is now hoping to get his sentence delayed.

The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives may launch an all-out offensive against Donald Trump kicking off new inquiries into the president, his administration and his family, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, explaining why Democrats will still have to forge compromises with Trump if they want to stay in power.

The Czech Republic, one of the countries contributing to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, has lost a number of military personnel serving there in recent months.

Addressing the claims of election meddling, Moscow has previously stated that it would not submit itself to US jurisdiction regarding complaints filed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Populist parties have been moving from the fringes to mainstream politics in Europe, tripling their support in elections over the past two decades, a study out Tuesday has shown.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A network of 26 refugee camps partly funded by the UK government has been holding around a thousand minors for months with little food or clothing, The Guardian newspaper reports.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Department of State is not aware of any new liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from Russia, the spokesperson for the Bureau of Energy Resources at the State Department, Vincent Campos, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - China stands ready to contribute to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in order to fairly resolve the Palestinian issue as soon as possible, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.

According to the Portuguese daily Correio da Manha, the man who died following an unfortunate jump from a 91m high cliff (almost 300 ft.) near the resort Nazaré was a 50-year-old German tourist.

Earlier, the US president claimed that the Saudi crown prince said in telephone talks that Riyadh had nothing to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia later stated on multiple occasions that the royal family did not order Khashoggi's killing.

THE HAGUE (Sputnik) - The Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention approved on Tuesday the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) budget for 2019 paving the way for the global chemical weapons watchdog to gain additional powers to assign responsibility for chemical attacks.

The White House ethics adviser's spokesman chimed into the dispute centring around the president's daughter's violation of the cyber security protocol, saying that at the time it happened, she hadn’t yet been instructed in her new governmental position.

Two pioneers of the tech industry said on Tuesday that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA) and other tech giants could impede the development of emerging technologies if they refuse to share more data.

Earlier, the foreign minister said his government could block the draft withdrawal deal unless changes are made to Gibraltar’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union.