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December 16, 2025

US designates Colombia’s biggest drug cartel Gulf Clan as terrorist organization

Marco Rubio calls drug-trafficking militia, present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, ‘violent and powerful’The US has designated the Gulf...

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December 05, 2025

US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows

Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say

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November 26, 2025

US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative

Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they are to stop US overdose...

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October 22, 2025

British woman on death row in Bali for drug smuggling to be repatriated

Lindsay Sandiford, 68, has been on death row in Indonesia since 2012, after authorities found 3.8kg of cocaine in her suitcaseA British woman will...

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October 19, 2025

Bolivia to vote in presidential runoff that will turn it to the right

End of almost two decades of leftist rule could revive ‘war on drugs’ in change of approach to coca cultivationBolivians go to the polls on Sunday in...

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September 30, 2025

Men in wet clothes claiming to be Camino pilgrims arrested over alleged ‘narco-sub’ plot

Three men had fled in taxi after allegedly piloting vessel carrying 3.65 tonnes of cocaine to Galicia, Spanish police sayPolice in Spain have...

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September 26, 2025

Drug traffickers livestream torture and killing of young Argentinian women and girl

Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez were lured with a promise of a $300 payment for a ‘sex party’

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August 25, 2025

Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty to racketeering in New York

Ismael Zambada was co-founder of Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, now imprisoned in USThe Mexican drug lord

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August 02, 2025

Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast

Crime agency says there were more than 60 investigations into at-sea drop-offs last year with 34 people arrested

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August 02, 2025

How a high-speed ocean chase led to an £18m cocaine seizure in Cornwall

Operation also shed unique light on backgrounds of those involved in running drugs into UK from ‘mother ships’

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