SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarian customs officials confiscated about 170 kilograms (370 pounds) of cocaine from a ship transporting bananas from Ecuador, prosecutors said Tuesday. District prosecutor Georgi Chinev said the drugs were hidden in a fruit container on the cargo ship Madison 2, which also made a stopover in Malta. He valued the cocaine at … Read more
MANILA (Reuters) -The U.S. embassy in Manila said on Thursday that the U.S. delivered fuel from one of its naval bases in Hawaii to a facility inside a former U.S. base in the Philippines in coordination with the government. A Philippines senator had criticised the “inexplicable silence” over the shipment, which she said raised suspicions … Read more
MEXICO CITY — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at least three other … Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh on Thursday received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow. Once finished, the plant is expected to boost Bangladesh’s national grid and help the South Asian nation’s growing economy. The Rooppur power plant will produce 2,400 megawatts of electricity … Read more
Authorities in an remoted ethnic Armenian area of Azerbaijan have allowed entry of a humanitarian help cargo in a step towards easing a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan that had blocked transport to the area since late final 12 months ByThe Related Press September 12, 2023, 9:51 AM YEREVAN, Armenia — Authorities in an remoted … Read more
ROME — With the assistance of a high-leaping canine with a advantageous nostril for cocaine, Italian police seized greater than 2,700 kilos (about 3 tons) of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities mentioned Tuesday. Police estimated that the cocaine, which they described as of the best high quality, … Read more