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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Migrants wait for bottles of drinking water by a makeshift encampment in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, October 28, 2019. Reuters
A dozen Mexican police officers, some of them members elite force, have been arrested in connection with a massacre in northeast Mexico in January.
The Special Operations Group is a SWAT-style unit formed in mid-2020 to carry out high-profile security operations against organized-crime groups.
A dozen police officers have been implicated in the massacre of 19 people along the US-Mexico border at the end of January, underscoring the systematic violence directed at those most vulnerable in areas where organized crime groups operate.
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A gunman who entered a church in Jamaica s northwestern city of Falmouth Sunday morning posing to be a member of the church shot a 51-year-old woman dead while the worship service was being streamed on the internet.
Andrea Lowe-Garwood, a bank manager in Trelawny Parish, was killed at the Agape Christian Fellowship Church Sunday.
Three people have been taken into custody by police in connection with the murder, The Jamaica Gleaner reported Monday. Authorities also are said to have seized a vehicle believed to have been used to escape the crime.
According to Jamaica Observer, the gunman, who had not been identified as of early Monday, fired several shots after shooting the woman. The attack occurred as video of the service was streaming live on Facebook.
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Recent major seizures of cocaine headed to North Africa indicate that the region is becoming a hub for trafficking.
Traffickers are eager to get increasing cocaine crops to major markets in Europe and the Middle East, and the shift to North Africa is likely due in part to tighter enforcement in West Africa.
Within the span of a week, cocaine was discovered in two separate maritime cargo containers bound for Libya, a strong indication that both the North African country and the broader region are becoming increasingly used cocaine transit routes to Europe and the Middle East.