U.S. announces 7th strike on an alleged drug boat
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The U.S. has carried out several strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the area since September that has killed dozens.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he was cutting all federal funding to Colombia amid a deepening row between the right-wing populist American leader and socialist President Gustavo Petro.
It was the seventh known strike in President Trump’s military campaign of attacking, rather than arresting, those suspected of running drugs in the Caribbean.
It’s at least the sixth such vessel targeted by Trump since early September. The president has ordered attacks on suspected narcotics boats as part of a campaign against “narco-terrorists” that has killed at least 27 people so far, not including the latest reported attack.
Wildlife Resource Commission officials shared a photo showing the 50-foot vessel that capsized in Oregon Inlet on Saturday.
One person is dead, and another is injured after a boat capsized Saturday afternoon in Oregon Inlet in Dare County, North Carolina. According to North Carolina
The Trump administration is continuing to escalate strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast. And now, a group of bipartisan Senators are working to block Trump from starting a war with Venezuela without the authorization of Congress.
At 12:01 p.m., the fire department was dispatched to a report of an overturned boat at the mouth of the harbor and a person in the water, according to a social media post from the department. A rescue boat was quickly in the water and located the boat. Maine Marine Patrol assisted the York Fire Department in this rescue.