Friday, January 3, 2025

#Ukraine - What I need from Trump to stop Putin - Zelensky's revealing interview on Ukraine war: The Sun

3 January 2024

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 started the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Ukraine's fate lies in the support the nation receives from western allies in Europe and the US. Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said incoming US President Donald Trump could help Ukraine stop tyrant Vladimir Putin's forces.

#thesun #us #ukraine

#news - Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 3, 2025: Democracy Now

3 January 2024

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#Spain #drugs - Inside Spain’s Narco Submarines | Unreported World

17 November 2024

Unreported World is in Spain tracking down the smuggling gangs using submarines to sneak vast quantities of cocaine into Europe, and following Spanish customs officials trying to find these near invisible targets. As cocaine production surges in Latin America, the authorities are increasingly on the lookout for small ‘narco-subs’ that spend weeks crossing the Atlantic from Latin America. Drug seizures across Spain are on the rise with more than 90 million tonnes seized last year. Most is found in shipping containers and ports. But in the coastal region of Galicia, in North-West-Spain, reporter Guillermo Galdos discovers a network of seasoned smugglers operating under the police’s radar. The existence of Narco-submarines was until recent years the stuff of myth. But from 2019 Spanish authorities have been discovering more and more home-made submarines, each capable of carrying tonnes of cocaine worth over £100m. Galdos embeds with Spanish customs as they patrol the coast, and discovers how local smugglers are using fast-boats to unload their cargo in the open ocean, and speed back to land before disappearing into coves and estuaries running along the shore. Much like the submarines, most smugglers operate silently and without trace. Galdos manages to access one smuggler who claims to come from a long line of local fishermen who built their network importing tobacco and hashish, and now work directly with Colombia’s cartels illegally importing cocaine. Once in Spain, he says its distributed around Europe to wherever there is demand. With thanks to: the Agencia Tributaria.

#USA - Four years after US Capitol riot, nation remains divided by opposing narratives • FRANCE 24

3 January 2025

Four years after the deadly assault on the US Capitol, two opposing narratives persist about what took place that fateful day. More than 1,500 people have since been criminally indicted in federal court, but President-elect Donald Trump has promised to pardon them all on his first day in office.

Our correspondent Fanny Allard met a convicted rioter, a policeman who was injured on January 6, 2021 and a member of the bipartisan committee tasked with investigating the attack. Read more about this story in our article: https://f24.my/Aqa8.y