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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that calm is being restored and improvised cartel roadblocks are being removed., Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that calm is being restored and that improvised cartel roadblocks are being removed. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sought to assuage fears following a government raid that killedContinue Reading

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CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — Exactly who tracked El Mencho, the world’s most wanted and feared drug lord, to a heavily armed safe house in a remote Sierra Madre town is a secret, for now. The Mexican government has revealed only that its air force and special forces commandos descended onContinue Reading

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KREMLIN FILES/ANALYSIS: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 did not emerge from a strategic vacuum. It was the culmination of over a decade of experimentation in hybrid warfare, and of increasingly rigid assumptions inside Russia’s intelligence services. From Crimea and the Donbas in 2014, through Syria and aContinue Reading

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Dutch humanitarian organizations have warned of an increasing number of attacks and suspicious incidents that may be tied to Russian sabotage efforts, NOS reports. According to LifeLine Ukraine, Ukrainian intelligence last year prevented a planned attack on the organization’s office. A woman was reportedly offered $5,000 to carry out anContinue Reading

“present-for-putin”:-slovakia-cuts-electricity-flows-for-millions-of-ukrainians-amid-russia’s-winter-terror-and-war’s-fourth-anniversary

Slovakia is stopping emergency electricity deliveries to Ukraine, Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced. This comes ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.  He says the decision is a response to the suspension of Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline. The measure takes effect onContinue Reading

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Diplomacy continues despite the significant United States military build-up., Diplomacy continues despite the significant United States military build-up. More talks are planned for Thursday between Iran and the United States, which is mobilising its largest military force since the invasion of Iraq more than two decades ago. Amid mixed messagesContinue Reading