3 h. ago Drugs and gangs exist in Venezuela, but don’t be fooled. Trump arrested Nicolás Maduro to plunder our wealth | Andrés Antillano

The US president invokes the usual suspects – drugs, organised crime, illegal migration – but this is simply a grab for resources and powerIn the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife by US military personnel. In addition to the 100 deaths recorded so far as a result of the attack, approximately 100 more were caused by US attacks on small boats in the previous months, under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking. Although it seems clear that the real intention of Donald Trump’s administration was to seize Venezuela’s wealth, the initial argument to justify the military deployment in the Caribbean was that it was to fight the illegal drugs trade and stop the flow of migrants that the Venezuelan government was allegedly causing by emptying prisons of criminals and sending them to the US.As a criminology professor who has studied Venezuelan drug trafficking for 20 y...

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35 h. ago Five severed human heads found hanging from ropes on busy tourist beach in latest grim display of drug gang violence

FIVE severed human heads have been found on a popular tourist beach in Ecuador. Police discovered the heads hanging from ropes fixed to wooden poles in the latest horror display of gang violence gripping the country. The decapitated heads were found on a beach in Puerto Lopez, in the southwest of Ecuador. Cops said the...

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3 d. ago Drugs gang kidnap teens, 14 and 16, and order them to 'dig own graves' at gunpoint

The two boys, aged 14 and 16, were reportedly kidnapped and forced to dig their own graves before managing to escape - police said one of the teenagers was stabbed in the thigh

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4 d. ago Gangster's moll who flaunted £40,000 of Rolexes, Gucci clothes and trips to Dubai bought with drug cash is locked up

Police found £40,000 of upmarket goods when they arrested Whitney-Marie Walker, 23, and her partner, Fred Cook, who police had identified as a 'principal member' of an underworld gang.

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6 d. ago Trump slams 'foolish' Nobel Peace Prize snub as Russia 'would take all Ukraine' without him

In a social media rant, Donald Trump claims he has saved 'millions of lives' and 'single-handedly ended 8 wars' saying the US will always be there for NATO 'even if they won't be there for us'

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6 d. ago University student claimed crime gang threatened family if he didn't deal drugs

A judge told Romario Buzi that those who peddled cocaine 'richly deserve' imprisonment

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6 d. ago Petra Ecclestone and her husband Sam Palmer rave about their 'new era' living in Dubai after fleeing their £31million Los Angeles mansion over gun crime and drug gang fears

Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone and Sam Palmer have insisted they have no regrets about relocating from Los Angeles to Dubai.

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8 d. ago How teen drug dealer 'Ghost' and girl gang were caught by sick murder selfies

The group of teenage girls attacked a homeless man with a gin bottle before taking selfies and videos documenting the night that resulted in his death weeks later

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1 week ago Scots teen locked up in Qatar as family say he was 'exploited' by drug gangs

Lino Neil, 18, was detained at Hamad International Airport after being accused of being a drugs courier - his family say he was exploited and forced to carry cannabis by gangsters

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1 week ago Jailed Islamist killer who won payout under ECHR rules for solitary confinement held prison officer hostage at knife point and told him: 'I've killed two people and I'll kill you'

Drug gangster turned jihadist sympathiser Fuad Awale, 38, used European rights laws to argue that his being locked up alone was unfair - despite the move following his hostage taking terror attack.

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1 week ago Drug gangs pose grave threat to European security, agency warns

Scale of Europe’s narcotics crisis ‘not even possible to imagine’, says EUDA director Alexis Goosdeel

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1 week ago Scots cops smash major crime gangs as £80m of drugs seized from streets in 2025

Police Scotland raided dozens of cannabis farms and took one of the country’s biggest cocaine hauls during a year-long crackdown.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the new Monroe doctrine: Trump’s forceful approach to the western hemisphere comes at a cost | Editorial

Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today, how US foreign policy has dramatically – and alarmingly – turned towards Latin America and the CaribbeanDonald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the Americas has revived a playbook dating back two centuries, to the fifth president, James Monroe. Now the 47th is doubling down. An anti-interventionist is having second thoughts. Remarks that sounded at first like bad jokes or random outbursts from the presidential id have become more sinister through repetition or accompanying actions. Only a fool would take all of Mr Trump’s comments literally – but they should certainly be taken seriously.He has refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and repeatedly floated the idea of making Canada the 51st state. He threatened to seize the Panama canal. He has imposed swing...

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2 w. ago CIA 'carries out drone strike' on Venezuelan drug port in first US land attack inside the country

The CIA drone strike was carried out on a remote dock on the coast of Venezuela believed to used by the Tren de Aragua gang to stockpile and transfer drugs.

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2 w. ago Trump says he’d ‘love to fire’ Jerome Powell in latest attack on Fed chair

Trump also repeated false claims about renovation costs for the Fed headquarters during a Monday press conferenceDonald Trump launched another attack against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monday, calling the central banker a “fool” and once again suggesting he would like to fire him.Trump launched his latest attack on Powell during a press conference with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, repeating false claims about the cost of a renovation of the central bank headquarters, and told reporters that he might file a lawsuit against Powell for “gross incompetence”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Criminal gangs earning up to £50,000 per delivery by dropping off phones, drugs and even takeaways into UK prisons, ex

The use of drones has soared in recent years with Strangeways recording at least 220 drop-offs in just 12 months, the highest figure across prisons in England and Wales.

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2 w. ago I was asked to follow a stranger trespassing near our family farm in Wales

When Sue Warner's father asked her to follow a strange man, she had no idea it would help foil an international drug-smuggling operation.

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3 w. ago Fugitive drugs gang boss' underlings face justice as he hides out abroad

Six members of the outfit have been jailed

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3 w. ago Girl, 12, gang raped for three days after being snatched from store and drugged

Kevin Horvath, 26, Ivan Turtak, 38, and Ernest Gunar, 27, were convicted of the sickening sex attacks on the young girl, who was repeatedly raped and drugged during the ordeal

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3 w. ago Muslim gangs have taken control of one of Britain's most drug

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor has served an urgent notification for HMP Swaleside in Kent.

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