Police seize millions of pills in notorious drug area
Police and security services wage a bloody battle in the hunt for drug smugglers in the so-called "Golden Triangle", where the borders of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar meet. This is written by Al Jazeera.
Thai authorities regularly manage to seize large quantities of drugs, including millions of methamphetamine pills. During a period of nine months until the summer of 2022, in addition to methamphetamine, large shipments of ketamine and heroin were also stopped. 320 people were arrested and 27 were killed in the operations.
In January this year, police shot dead five suspected smugglers in a shootout near the city of Chiang Rai.
Seized heroin in Thailand, stock image. Sakchai Lalit / AP
FN: Large seizures do not mean that drugs disappear
The smugglers in the "Golden Triangle", the area that connects Thailand with Myanmar and Laos, use drones in the hope that their drug shipments will not be detected by the police. This is written by Al Jazeera.
A senior police officer describes the fight as arduous, as they may reinforce in an area, only to later realize that the smugglers have changed routes. However,
Jeremy Douglas at the UN Drug Control Unit sees problems with the authorities' work and believes that efforts cannot be evaluated solely based on the size of seizures.
- It is clear that it does not work.
Instead, he calls for targeted investments against money laundering and efforts to stifle demand.
Peter Obi with his wife Mosa'ab Elshamy / AP
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Obi wants to challenge the result in court: "We won"
Nigerian opposition politician Peter Obi intends to appeal the election results in court, reports Reuters. He claims election fraud and says at a press conference that he won Saturday's presidential election.
- We will prove it to Nigerians, says the leader of the Labor Party at a press conference.
Bola Tinubu of the incumbent ruling party APC has been declared the winner of the election with 37 percent of the vote. According to the official figures, Obi and the Labor Party got 25 percent of the vote while Atiku Abubakar of the other opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) got 29 percent.
Lavrov/Blinken. TT
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Blinken pressed Lavrov on the Ukraine war at the G20
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a quick unplanned meeting with Russia's dito Sergei Lavrov in connection with the G20 meeting in India, US officials told AFP. The meeting is the first since the invasion of Ukraine.
The parties should have spoken for about ten minutes on the sidelines of the G20 meeting, officials told AP. Blinken should have mentioned that the US will support Ukraine as long as it takes to end the war and that Russia should withdraw its decision to pause the New Start agreement, which deals with nuclear disarmament. He also took the opportunity to say that Russia should release the American Paul Whelan, according to the sources.
The officials would not comment on Lavrov's response, but said they did not get the impression that there would be any change in Russia's actions in the near future.
Russia's foreign ministry says the parties spoke "on the fly," state news agency Tass reports.
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