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Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil, the nerve center of the government's war on drug gangs. IMAGES
Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing hundreds of military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil. Security forces "carry out a new intervention in the Centro de Privación de Libertad #Guayas, controlling the external and internal perimeter of the penitentiary center," the Armed Forces announces on X. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
The trial of a vast international cocaine and cannabis trafficking operation, for which more than 100 people have been summoned to appear before the Brussels court, was adjourned and the opening of the proceedings is now set for 18 December, the court has announced. IMAGES
Anti-drug police in northern Peru seize 58 kilos of cocaine destined for Belgium in packages covered in Nazi symbols and with Adolf Hitler's name engraved on them. IMAGES
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns Moscow not to use the alleged drone attack that it said targeted the Kremlin to escalate its war in Ukraine. "We call on Russia not to use this alleged attack as an excuse to continue the escalation of the war," Borrell tells journalists in Brussels as he attends an EU ministers meeting. SOUNDBITE
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