Spanish police said Wednesday that they had seized 13 tonnes of cocaine — the country’s largest-ever haul of the drug — and made one arrest.Police and customs agents intercepted the cocaine in the southern port of Algeciras on October 14 from a container ship that had arrived from Ecuador’s largest city Guayaquil, a drug-trafficking hub.The …
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday congratulated US presidential election winner Donald Trump and urged continued close trans-Atlantic ties, telling him in English: “We’re better off together”.”Together we can achieve much more than against each other,” added the centre-left leader of Europe’s biggest economy.”Both sides benefit from the trans-Atlantic partnership,” Scholz said in a statement …
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Lebanon said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labour agency over deadly attacks on communication devices across the country in September, which it blames on Israel.Lebanese Labour Minister Mustafa Bayram called the attack an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work”, saying his country had filed the complaint with …
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Far from Republican festivities as Donald Trump claimed US election victory, residents of a sleepy Indian village celebrated that their descendant would be the next “Second Lady”, hoping to benefit from her success.Academic highflyer and successful lawyer Usha Vance, the child of Indian immigrants, is the wife of Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance.While 38-year-old Usha …
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will host dozens of European leaders in Budapest later this week boosted by his “dear friend” Donald Trump’s US election victory, but with relations with other EU states increasingly strained.The nationalist leader has faced a backlash for his country’s norm-defying EU presidency, which saw him jetting to Moscow right after …
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A Dutch court on Wednesday upheld a government ban on sweet flavours for e-cigarettes, arguing they encouraged young people to smoke.The District Court in The Hague threw out an appeal by British American Tobacco (BAT), which argued that a ban on flavours in e-cigarettes went against the principle of the free movement of goods.”The flavour …
Interpol said Wednesday that a six-day international police operation against human trafficking had led to more than 2,500 arrests and the rescue of over 3,000 potential victims.The operation, called “Liberterra II”, took place between September 29 and October 4 and was the largest-ever operation against human trafficking and people smuggling by the global law enforcement …
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Donald Trump claimed a “magnificent” victory over Kamala Harris in the fight for the presidency on Wednesday as results put him on the verge of one of the most stunning comebacks in US political history.The Republican former president’s address to a crowd of jubilant supporters came despite the fact that only Fox News had so …
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted unanimously to ratify a landmark mutual defence pact with North Korea, as Kyiv and the West say Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. The agreement formalises months of deepening security cooperation between the two nations, which were Communist allies throughout the Cold War. North Korea has become one …
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Donald Trump claimed victory and pledged to “heal” the country Wednesday as results put him on the verge of beating Kamala Harris in a stunning White House comeback.His exuberant speech came despite the fact that only Fox News had declared him the winner, with no other US networks having made the call so far.As jubilant …
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