West Africa, a new hub of global cocaine trafficking – Report
Dozens of cocaine packages piled up, weighing in at four tonnes and valued at $317 million -- the seizure by Liberian police in July was a stark symbol of west Africa's expanding role in the global cocaine trade.
US envoy to meet Russia’s Putin for talks on ending Ukraine war
“I think the administration feels very optimistic,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday.
Pope prays for peace in Lebanon, region
“For the world, we ask for peace. We especially implore it for Lebanon and for the entire Levant,” he said from deep inside the candle-lit stone monastery.
Trump says US freeze on asylum decisions will last ‘a long time’
“We don’t want those people,” Trump continued. “You know why we don’t want them? Because many have been no good, and they shouldn’t be in our country.”
Niger says putting its uranium on international market
The news was announced on state television Tele Sahel in a report Sunday evening citing comments by head of the junta General Abdourahamane Tiani.
Trump says Venezuela’s airspace ‘closed in its entirety’
“To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network, “please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
