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Tourist hotspots fight Airbnb delugeCampaigners from some of the most stunning destinations in the Mediterranean will hold an urgent meeting in Venice this week on how to control the surging number of tourists, who they say are destroying their homes.The activists from Dubrovnik, Rhodes, Santorini, Corfu, Paphos in Cyprus and Venice claim that cruise ships and the huge rise in Airbnb lettings are pushing up rents, forcing out local people and killing off the communities in their towns and cities.“We are victims of our own success,” Marco Gasparinetti, the Venetian activist who organised the meeting, said. “We are losing residents and our heritage is vanishing — the very things people come to see.”
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Police fired after claiming mice ate half a ton of marijuana that mysteriously disappeared from warehouseForensic experts dismissed explanation as implausible When more than 500kg of marijuana disappeared from a police warehouse in Argentina, officers had an improbable explanation: it must have been eaten by mice.
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