It is a shrub or small tree, growing 5-8 m tall with evergreen leaves 5-10 cm × 4.1 cm. Flowers arise in short axillary clusters of 4 to 8 cm long, and five small white petals. The fruit is a capsule containing oblong trivalvada 1 to 3 seeds.

Qat is a stimulant that is chewed plant traditionally used in Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia and other neighboring Arab countries in the Horn of Africa.

This is the plant with the most potent psychostimulant properties are known so far. Its active ingredients are psychotropic alkaloids cathine and cathinone. Psychostimulants both molecules are derived from phenethylamine, and chemically and functionally related to amphetamines.

In particular, cathinone is the most active of the two, and is also known because it serves as a substrate for the production of a powerful drug, methcathinone. Such chemical synthesis is carried out relatively easily and cheaply in clandestine laboratories distributed throughout US. UU., And its market is growing because of the similarity of methcathinone methamphetamine. However, the source and precursors to produce this synthetic derivative not leave the plant, but the same compounds that are used to produce methamphetamine, such as ephedrine and other similar derivatives.

Qat use has recently been investigated on brain cognitive functions. Regular consumption of this plant affects the ability to inhibit behavioral responses by the stop-signal task. This task requires subjects to react quickly and accurately by pressing a key in response to the direction of a green arrow pointing to the right or left. However, if the arrow turns red, it must not inhibit the response and press. Compared to free controls the substance, consumers run similarly qat response inhibition, although they need more time to inhibit these responses to the signal.

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.- Members of the National Police catched two inmates at the National Penitentiary of La Victoria who dedicated themselves to commit fraud against other people by telephone and through social networks.

They are Jancel Yoel Almonte (Chevalier) and Fanklin Andrés Florentino (Zacatecas) who were caught by members of the Crime Investigation Department and High Technology Crimes (DICAT), accompanied by the prosecutor, Pedro Amador Innocent Espinosa.

The requisition of prisoners was carried out by members DICAT by the warrant number 0294-A-2015.

Inmates imprisoned in the cells 1 and 2 of the Vietnam sector of La Victoria prison, where they were occupied four cell phones of different makes and models, a bank card Visa, and 6 chips of two telephone companies.

A preliminary report on the case reveals that Jancel Yoel Almonte stole the identities of different people who cheated, while Franklin Andrés Florentino facilitated bank accounts to receive the stolen deposits.

Inmates are investigated in DICAT in order to establish whether committed other crimes and if these other people involved.

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At least 15 people died and twelve were injured by rushing into a ravine the bus they were traveling in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India, he told Efe an official source.

The accident took place at about 16.00 local time (10.30 GMT) on a road in the district of Kinnaur, said regional police superintendent Rahul Nath, who explained that the car was "completely destroyed".

He said the injured ones have been rushed to a hospital in the area, where three high-altitude mountain ranges, including the Himalayas stretch.

A house in northern China was severely damaged after being hit by a rocket debris released minutes earlier from a nearby base, reported state television CCTV.

The incident occurred on Thursday night, nine minutes after the Chinese space program put in orbit the satellite remote control and monitoring of fields Yaogan-27 in downtown launches Taiyuan (Shanxi Province, north) .

Although the launch was successful, parts of propellant rocket were detached and reached a nearby house in the small town of Ankang, which opened a large hole in the roof and entered one of the rooms. The metal piece, conical and about meter and a half tall, resembles a large caliber projectile, so the accident, but caused no casualties.

The piece belongs to a shuttle rocket "Long March-4C", typically used by China for its space missions. It is not the first time fragments of rockets causing damage to buildings near the orbit launch of Chinese missions cosmos locations, so space engineers in the country working on new propellers made less dangerous and "recyclable" materials .

The Chinese government plans to pay compensation to those affected by such accidents, which by now haven't been reported injuries. 

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