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Coast Guard drug offload highlights cocaine's path from South America to San Diego

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed eight indictments in San Diego and elsewhere detailing a massive narcotics trafficking operation by the new bosses of the Beltrán Leyva organization, once one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels. The announcement Wednesday came the same day the U.S. Coast Guard unloaded more than 18,000 pounds of seized cocaine at the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. Officials said the two events were unrelated, as the cocaine offloaded by the Coast Guard was seized over the past two months, while the alleged c...

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications: senator

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones. Apps of all kinds rely on push notifications to alert smartphone users to incoming messages, breaking news, and other updates. These are the audible "dings" or visual indicators ...

French film star Depardieu faces new allegation of sexual assault

A fellow actor filed a sexual assault complaint against Gérard Depardieu in September, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding to a string of allegations targeting the French star.

Helene Darras said that Depardieu assaulted her while filming a movie in 2007, Paris prosecutors said, confirming a report from broadcaster France 2.

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U.S. charges four pro-Russian troops in Ukraine with war crimes

The United States charged four pro-Russian soldiers with war crimes on Wednesday for the abduction and torture of an American national in Ukraine.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the charges against the four "Russia-affiliated military personnel" were the first to be brought under the US war crimes statute.

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US charges four Russia-affiliated soldiers with war crimes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has charged four Russia-affiliated soldiers with war crimes against an American carried out during Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, in what the Justice Department described as the first-ever charges under the U.S. war crimes statute. The 9-page war crime indictment against the four Russian men includes allegations of torture, inhuman treatment, conspiracy to commit war crimes and unlawful treatment of an American citizen. "As the world has witnessed the horrors of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, so has the United States Department of Justice," Attorney General ...

Putin visits United Arab Emirates on rare foreign trip

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday for a brief visit to the Gulf.

The Russian president was greeted in Abu Dhabi by Emirati President Mohammed bin Sajid, the country's state news agency WAM announced on X. Putin plans to travel to Saudi Arabia later on to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Erdoğan: Israel will 'pay a price' if they pursue Hamas in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned Israeli authorities not to pursue Hamas members on Turkish territory.

"If they dare to take such a step against Turkey, they will pay the price in a way that they will not be able to recover," Erdoğan told reporters on his return flight from Qatar.

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'Tripping over his shoelaces': John Bolton explains how Trump can be beaten

There may not be another Trump presidency if contenders against him take the fight to him. But if he wins the nomination and bests President Joe Biden, there are enough protections to ward off authoritarian rule.

Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton appearing on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins made it clear that he has "faith in constitutional structures" and even said that "they're strong."

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'I can't win': Tuberville reveals why he gave up on his military blockade

After months of mounting pressure and frustration among both lawmakers and the military brass, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is finally ending his protest block on over 400 military appointments and promotions, letting them all be confirmed by voice vote. He continues to hold a block on just 11 four-star generals, who could be scheduled and confirmed individually by the Senate.

Speaking to CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju, Tuberville admitted he gave up because if he waited any longer, the nominations would have been returned to the White House, causing even further chaos.

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Biden says Hamas raped, mutilated women during Israel assault

By Nandita Bose BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks. Speaking at a political fundraiser in Boston, Biden said accounts of "unimaginable cruelty" had been shared over the past few weeks. "Reports of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their bodies being mutilated while still alive, of women's corpses being desecrated, Hamas terrorists inflicting as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and then murde...

Killer's wife says role in British student's death 'unforgivable'

The widow of a French serial killer known as the "Ogre of the Ardennes" on Tuesday admitted she played an "unforgivable" role in the 1990 rape and murder of British student Joanna Parrish by her former husband.

Confronted with images of Parrish's swollen face after her body was pulled from the river Yonne, Monique Olivier said that "it's because of me she's gone, it's unforgivable".

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Prince Harry in U.K. court battle over security

Lawyers for Prince Harry on Tuesday began a legal challenge over his security arrangements in the UK, after he quit frontline royal duties and moved to North America.

The case about his loss of UK taxpayer-funded protection is the latest in a string of court proceedings initiated by Harry, whose father is King Charles III.

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Time’s Person of the Year 2023 shortlist includes Taylor Swift, Barbie and Putin

Time magazine released its shortlist for its perennial Person of the Year selection. The annual honor began in 1927 when Charles Lindbergh received the distinction following his solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis and climate activist Greta Thunberg have received the honor, along with several world leaders and every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt (except Gerald Ford). The magazine has also swerved in the past and awarded “concepts,” like “The Silence Breakers” who started the MeToo movement a...