Europol has supported authorities from 19 countries in a large-scale operation against child sexual exploitation that has led to 25 arrests worldwide. The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members were engaged in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Operation Cumberland identified 273 suspects, arrested 25 suspects, conducted 33 house searches, and seized 173 electronic devices. read more
Mexico has extradited 29 drug traffickers who were being held in different prisons across the country to the US on Thursday, according to the Mexican attorney general's office. Among the 29 are theformer leaders of the Los Zetas cartel, Miguel ngel and Omar Trevio Morales, known as Z-40 and Z-42. As well asRafael Caro Quintero, former head of the Guadalajara Cartel, and Jos ngel Canobbio, alias El Gerito, a lieutenant ofLos Chapitos,one of the factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. read more
Vladimir Putin addressing FSB officers: "Our current partners in the US show pragmatism and a realistic view, moving away from stereotypes and messianic clichs." read more
An American Airlines flight arriving at Ronald Reagan National Airport was forced to abort its landing to avoid another aircraft Tuesday, officials said, less than a month after a midair collision killed 67 people near the same airport and roughly 90 minutes before another close call between a passenger plane and a private jet in Chicago. read more
The proposal targets the international white-shoe law firm Covington & Burling, which employs high-profile Democratic lawyers who worked in the Obama and Biden administrations. Signing executive orders before reporters in the Oval Office, America's Godzilla described the plan to reporters and childishly offered to send the pen he used to Jack Smith, who led investigations into the twice-impeached and NYS-convicted dotard when he was Special Counsel. link: nytimes.com read more
Hi Corky. In such a scenario, I imagine Russia would deploy nukes against China. The Russian Far East Oblast has a population of 8 million people, a small sacrifice for the cynical Kremlin to save Mother Russia. The more interesting scenario would be China launching a surprise attack against North Korea and defanging Kim Jong-un once and for all. To Beijing, Pyongyang is a nuclear tumor causing instability. And Kim Jong-un is readying his daughter to be his successor, which China sees. How many WMDs will North Korea have accumulated when she takes over in a few decades?
US/Russia/China power match-up: US/Russia/China
Canada was busy combatting illegal drugs before Trumpf's threats. The RCMP busted the largest drug mega-lab in their history right before the US election. Please see second entry for more details: coriolanus.page
As someone posted, Canada is like the US, you are "free to go" at the borders. ICE agents may conduct targeted inspections before leaving the US if they have a tip-off about somebody specific carrying contraband (large amount of undeclared currency, drugs, weapons).
AI-created children make investigating genuine exploitations difficult. Also, real children images are uploaded into the AI computer: www.justsecurity.org