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Authorities in the Dominican Republic announced on Friday that they confiscated nearly 9.5 tonnes of cocaine, the largest drug seizure in the country’s history.The 250 million dollars (£195 million) worth of drugs were found nestled inside a banana shipment that arrived at the Caucedo port in the capital of Santo Domingo, the country’s most important seaport.The shipment had been sent from Guatemala and was destined for Belgium, said Carlos Devers, spokesman for the Dominican Republic’s Anti-Drug Agency.Ten suspects have been detained, he said at a press conference.Authorities so far this year have seized nearly 47 tonnes of drugs.The second biggest…

LETTER FROM ATHENS Speed camera sign in Crete, Greece. IMAGEBROKER / GAME The Conservative government aims to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries by 50% by 2030. To achieve this, it plans to install 1,388 cameras across the country by 2026, starting with 388 in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, by 2025, focusing on the busiest roads. “Unfortunately, human resources cannot respond to all criminal behavior on the roads. The solution [to reduce accidents] lies in intelligent policing and the use of new technological tools, such as cameras,” said Greece’s Minister of Citizen Protection and Police, Michalis Chrysochoidis,…

CHRISTELLE ENAULT A “metaphor for the life of the nation”: On November 29, during his last visit to the cathedral’s construction site, Emmanuel Macron evoked Notre-Dame de Paris in these terms. Less than a year earlier, on December 31, 2023, in his New Year’s address to the French people, the president described the forthcoming reopening of the building as a “French pride.” For Macron, these ceremonies are an opportunity to celebrate a great success for the country. They are a moment of collective rejoicing that comes to repair the “national wound” that was, on April 15, 2019, the vision of…

The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, assures that only one of the public works contracts that according to the accused businessman Víctor de Aldama were “pre-awarded” by Puente’s predecessor, José Luis Ábalos, in exchange for commissions was signed in the time when Ábalos was minister and that after an initial analysis of his ministry, no irregularities were found in his file. For Puente, after the accusation of Aldama, the alleged ringleader of the illegal commissions plot investigated by the Koldo case, There is an attempt to mock justice.1.- I open a thread. These are the documents that…

Feijóo considers the legislature “exhausted” and accuses the President of the Government of “violating” the fundamental law in exchange for votes and disregarding the separation of powers. Read A Sanchez "harassed" ask in vain "reform" the Constitution and the PP accuse him of creating "a smoke screen"

The Federal Employment Agency will have to spend significantly more money this year than planned, as an IW analysis now shows. There is also a risk of a financing gap in 2025, mainly due to two trends. But also because the authority is paying more for administration and personnel than ever before. Employment agency: New billion-dollar gap – and record costs for administration and personnel

Alcohol abuse, sexual violence, Nazi tattoos: What the US media reports about Pete Hegseth should disqualify him for office in the US government. Donald Trump thinks it’s all “fake news”, the man is a “winner”. Trump sticks with scandal-prone candidate for Secretary of Defense

The European Union and Mercosur signed an agreement on Friday which, if the complicated ratification process does not put the brakes on it, will give rise to the largest free trade zone in the world. A quarter of a century of negotiations were finally concluded in Montevideo, Uruguay, during the summit of Mercosur presidents. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von del Leyen, confirmed the end of the negotiations at a press conference at the headquarters of the South American bloc. It was the definitive point. Much of the impetus given to the agreement by Spain and Germany, on…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has revealed the six “milestones” he wants to achieve to bring change to the country. He has asked the public to measure his government against his milestones at the next election. 

His milestones include building more houses, cutting NHS waiting lists and putting more police officers on the streets. 

After a start to the year with slow and moderate growth, the eurozone economy shows signs of recovery in the third quarter of the year. The gross domestic product of the euro countries has shown a rebound of 0.4% between July and September, exceeding the 0.2% increase in the second quarter of the year. An impulse that is supported by an increase in household consumption and an increase in public spending by governments. In the EU as a whole, the dynamic is replicated, an increase of 0.4% in the third quarter after an increase of 0.2% in the second part…