4 h. ago Trump says six were killed in US strike on another boat allegedly carrying drugs near Venezuela

UN has condemned US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executionsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump said the US has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing six people.“The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social social media platform. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago DoorDash driver accused of being high on drugs and passing out in Burger King drive

Christian Suttle, 27, is in police custody on charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia

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35 h. ago ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?‘It is so rare, in fact it never happens, that crimes are so well documented.” Manon Garcia is the French feminist philosopher whose thinking featured so prominently in the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisèle Pelicot “being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers”. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn’t have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia’s, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent.Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia ar...

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5 d. ago Pregnant Brit 'drug mule' Bella Culley's freedom hopes dashed as family fail to pay fine

The family of pregnant Brit, Bella May Culley, 19 has been given more time to raise the £215k needed to release her from an ex-Soviet jail in Georgia after being accused of drug trafficking

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Ant and Dec back the Standard’s drive with King’s Trust to help the young find jobs

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2 w. ago Moment Brit, 23, 'is found with 9kg of crystal meth in his suitcase by Thai police': UK tourist is latest to be accused of smuggling drugs out of the country

A British tourist is facing the death penalty for allegedly attempting to smuggle a suitcase full of crystal meth out of Thailand.

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2 w. ago Prince Harry responds to claims he’s ‘trying to drive wedge’ between King Charles and Prince William

PRINCE Harry has responded to claims he's trying to cause a split between King Charles and Prince William following his recent visit. Claims the meeting was part of concerted efforts to drive a wedge between Prince William and his father have been denied. Harry’s spokesman said: “Categorically not. Harry is not trying to drive a...

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2 w. ago Hero delivery driver alerts cops to hostage situation after customer orders hatchet and zip ties to motel, report says

A Texas delivery driver called police after a suspicious delivery to the Sweetwater Inn, leading to the arrests of a man and the person initially believed to be his hostage

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2 w. ago New York sex worker accused of killing three clients in ‘callous’ and ‘calculated’ plot

Tabitha Bundrick, 38, accused of drugging victims with fentanyl and stealing their possessions

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2 w. ago Donald Trump must face criminal proceedings for deadly strikes carried out on drug smuggler boats in the Caribbean, UN is told

Colombia's leader condemned three attacks this month, which were defended as operations against drug traffickers. He accused the former president of criminalising poverty and migration.

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2 w. ago Delivery driver foils Texas hostage situation after alerting police to alarming order details

Driver called police after seeing that delivery order to motel room included zip ties, hatchet, bleach and trash bagsA driver for an delivery service recently helped police in west-central Texas foil a hostage situation after reporting that he had delivered zip ties, a hatchet and other suspicious items to a motel room as part of an order, according to authorities and media accounts.In a news release published on social media, police from the city of Sweetwater said they had been called to a local motel on Monday morning by a delivery service worker who became suspicious over certain items that he delivered to a room there at the behest of a platform customer. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Hero DoorDash driver alerts cops to hostage situation after customer orders hatchet and zip ties to motel, report says

A Texas DoorDash driver called police after a suspicious delivery to the Sweetwater Inn, leading to the arrests of a man and the person initially believed to be his hostage

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3 w. ago Hero DoorDash driver alerts cops to hostage situation after customer orders hatchet and and zip ties to motel, report say

A Texas DoorDash driver called police after a suspicious delivery to the Sweetwater Inn, leading to the arrests of a man and the person initially believed to be his hostage

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4 w. ago Trump accuses Venezuela of ‘sending us gangs, drugs and dealers’

‘We’ll see what happens’, Trump says, amid reports of increasing U.S. efforts to force President Nicolás Maduro from power

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