Royal Navy patrol ship scores £204 million drug bust in Caribbean Sea

Personnel aboard the Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Trent and seized bales containing narcotics

The Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent has seized cocaine shipments worth £204 million (US$254 million) during a recent nighttime interception in the Caribbean Sea, the navy confirmed late last week. The ship has seized £511 million (US$638 million) worth of narcotics across five...

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Venezuelan President calls British warship deployment to Guyana a “military threat”

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has criticised a recent decision by the UK government to deploy a warship in the waters off Guyana. Speaking via a state television broadcast on Thursday, December 28, Mr Maduro claimed that the British vessel’s deployment is a breach of the “spirit of dialogue,...

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