6 h. ago US strikes against boats in Caribbean ‘disregard international law’, French minister says

G7 foreign ministers questioned Marco Rubio about the attacks on what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglersStakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the CaribbeanIs US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded?The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is facing questions from his fellow G7 foreign ministers about the legality of the US strikes in the Caribbean on ships it says it suspects of carrying drugs.The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, criticised the military operations, saying they could contribute to instability in the region, but his suggestion that the attacks were unlawful was also a rare criticism of the Trump administration. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Stakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean

Washington’s former ambassador in Caracas says a US attack once seen as unlikely now looks imminentWhen Donald Trump started sending warships, marines and reaper drones to the Caribbean in August to torment Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, the US’s former ambassador in Caracas, James Story, suspected the deployment was largely for show: a spectacular flexing of military muscle supposed to force the authoritarian leader from power.But in recent days, as the world’s largest aircraft carrier and its strike group powered towards the region and the US president continued to order deadly airstrikes on alleged narco-boats, the diplomat’s thinking has shifted. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford arrives in the Caribbean in latest escalation of Trump’s war on cartel boats

World’s largest aircraft carrier arrives to support operations against alleged narcotics smugglers

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14 h. ago World’s largest aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R Ford arrives in the Caribbean in latest escalation of Trump’s war on cartel boats

World’s largest aircraft carrier arrives to support operations against alleged narcotics smugglers

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27 h. ago Venezuela ‘preparing guerrilla response in case of US attack’ as world’s largest aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean

Government officials publicly have been dismissive of a U.S. military threat, though they have called for peace

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32 h. ago BREAKING: Donald Trump moves huge aircraft carrier closer to Venezuela amid attack rumours

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, has moved into the Caribbean, amid Donald Trump's war on drug cartels and US warships have gathered off the coast of Venezuela

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32 h. ago Donald Trump moves huge aircraft carrier closer to Venezuela amid attack rumours

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, has moved into the Caribbean, amid Donald Trump's war on drug cartels and US warships have gathered off the coast of Venezuela

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2 w. ago Trump could destroy cocaine facilities inside Venezuela as US deploys strike force to Caribbean: report

The world’s largest aircraft carrier is deployed to the region in an escalating military conflict against drug traffickers

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2 w. ago Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up

Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on landThe Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a major escalation in the Trump administration’s war against drug cartels that provides the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground.The move will bring the USS Gerald Ford carrier, with dozens of stealth fighter jets and surveillance aircraft, in addition to other warships that accompany the carrier, to the coast of Venezuela as it nears the end of its current deployment in the Mediterranean. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds

Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate themAt first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sleek body is identified by a heat-detecting camera and, with it, an alert goes out to Orkney’s stoat hunters.Aided by an artificial intelligence programme trained to detect a stoat’s sinuous shape and movement, trapping teams are dispatched with the explicit aim of finding and killing it. It is the most sophisticated technology deployed in one of the world’s largest mammal eradication projects, which has the aim of detecting the few stoats left on Orkney. Continue reading...

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