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  • ‘Deliver or Die’: Inside the Drug-Boat Crews Ferrying Cocaine to the U.S.

    CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix of bravado, skill and dreams of a massive payday.

    Now, designated as terrorists by the Trump administration, they face not only the perils of a capricious sea but the new danger of getting blown out of the water by the U.S. military. The trade’s unofficial motto—“deliver or die”—has never rung so true.

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    Juan Forero

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  • Exclusive | Witness Photos Captured Attack on the National Guard

    It was a pre-Thanksgiving afternoon that few Americans could have imagined: U.S. troops defending themselves in a gunfight in the streets of the American capital.

    A witness took photos of the ambush of the two National Guard troops that shows the suspect—an Afghan refugee with whom the Central Intelligence Agency had once worked—with a revolver in hand, U.S. National Guardsmen shooting back and fallen Guard members on the ground.

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    Michael R. Gordon

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  • The Deadly Mix of Factors That Made a Hong Kong High-Rise Fire so Devastating

    The fire spread at an astonishing pace.

    It started Wednesday afternoon. When Ho Wai-ho and his fellow firefighters arrived at the scene about 10 minutes later, the blaze was already racing up the green netting and bamboo scaffolding covering the 31-story high rise.

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    Yang Jie

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  • ISIS Prisons and Camps Are Festering in a Fragile Syria as Aid Peters Out

    HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along a corridor lined with cells. A prisoner pressed his face to a small, square hole in one of the cell doors. Behind him, some 20 other prisoners in brown jumpsuits sat barefoot on the floor.

    “Is Biden still the U.S. president?” he asked a visiting journalist. The prisoner, a British Islamic State member, didn’t get an answer.

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    Sudarsan Raghavan

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  • Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated

    President Trump has said he wants Ukraine to agree to a 28-point peace plan by Thanksgiving. The problem for Kyiv is that many of the points cross their red lines and reflect demands long made by Moscow. The Kremlin has said it wasn’t consulted on the plan.

    Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.

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    Matthew Luxmoore

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  • The Web of Venezuelan Generals Accused of Fueling the Cocaine Trade

    For more than two decades, a loose-knit group of Venezuelan generals and senior officials has enabled the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine to the U.S. and Europe, American and Colombian officials say.

    While nearly all cocaine is produced in neighboring Colombia, Venezuela plays an important role in allowing the drug to move through its territory and then onto ships and planes that traffic it to Europe, the Caribbean and the U.S., the officials have said. 

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    [ad_2] José de Córdoba
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  • The Gaza War Has Been Big Business for U.S. Companies

    Two years on, Israel’s war in Gaza might be finally drawing to a close. The conflict built an unprecedented arms pipeline from the U.S. to Israel that continues to flow, generating substantial business for big U.S. companies—including Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Caterpillar.

    Sales of U.S. weapons to Israel have surged since October 2023, with Washington approving more than $32 billion in armaments, ammunition and other equipment to the Israeli military over that time, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of State Department disclosures.

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    Benoit Faucon

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  • Alaska’s New Mining Rush Chases Something More Coveted Than Gold

    ESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold.

    But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed the rock aside. He and his team of geologists were searching for something even more sought-after: antimony, an obscure element widely used in the defense industry that is now at the center of the bitter U.S.-China trade fight.

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    Jon Emont

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  • Hundreds of Hamas Fighters Are Stuck in Tunnels in Israeli-Controlled Gaza

    A detachment of Israeli engineering troops was demolishing tunnels behind the withdrawal line in Gaza last month when Hamas militants sprang from a hidden shaft, fired an antitank missile toward their excavator and killed two soldiers.

    A little over a week earlier, Israel and Hamas had agreed to a cease-fire. Israel responded to the deadly encounter with a round of airstrikes on Gaza that killed dozens of people.

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    [ad_2] Dov Lieber
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  • Japan Is Overrun With Tourists. This City Wants More.

    NAGOYA, Japan—The tourists who crowd the bullet trains from Tokyo tend not to disembark at Nagoya as they speed along the so-called Golden Route linking the Japanese capital with Kyoto and Osaka. 

    “Nagoya tobashi,” the locals say. Nagoya gets skipped. The manufacturing hub, which anchors the region that is home to auto giant Toyota, is Japan’s fourth most-populous city and, according to a decade-old newspaper poll that still stings here, number one in dullness. 

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    Jason Douglas

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  • Hezbollah Is Rearming, Putting Cease-Fire at Risk

    The Lebanese militant group is rebuilding its battered ranks and armaments, defying the terms of the cease-fire and raising the possibility of renewed conflict with Israel.

    Omar Abdel-Baqui

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  • Hurricane Melissa Barrels Down on Jamaica as Category 5 Storm

    Hurricane Melissa has strengthened to a Category 5 storm and is expected to produce catastrophic floods and heavy infrastructure damage in Jamaica.

    Flash floods are projected to sweep through Jamaica on Monday and into Tuesday, with parts of the island expected to receive as much as 40 inches of rain, according to the National Hurricane Center. The weather service is advising people to avoid leaving safe shelters during the storm, which has sustained winds of 160 miles an hour.

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    Joseph De Avila

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  • Drone Threats Ignite Burst of Counterdrone Wizardry

    Startups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones.

    Bertrand Benoit

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  • Ukraine Wants Tomahawks. Trump Has to Decide if They Would Help End the War.

    WASHINGTON—The Tomahawk cruise missile that President Trump is considering for Ukraine has been the weapon of choice for decades for U.S. presidents seeking decisive military solutions.

    A highly accurate missile with a powerful warhead that can fly more than 1,000 miles, the Tomahawk can reach targets inside Russia far beyond any of the weapons the U.S. has provided to Kyiv until now. 

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    Michael R. Gordon

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  • Milei’s Radical Overhaul of Argentina Meets Its Match in the Humble Peso

    BUENOS AIRES—When he ran for president of Argentina, Javier Milei compared the country’s currency to excrement, telling Argentines to forget the peso and vowing to scrap it altogether.

    Now Milei’s government is using its precious few reserves of American dollars to buy pesos and prop up their value, a stark departure from his free-market overhaul of the country’s economy. And he is asking for billions of dollars from the Trump administration to keep the peso from sliding.

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  • Inside the West’s Race to Defend the Arctic

    ABOARD THE MV NUNALIK—Greenland lurked in the distance as Capt. Donald Gibson rushed to the bridge of his cargo ship amid a sudden Arctic storm. Snow lashed against the pilothouse windows while he and his crew struggled to control the vessel and steer clear of icebergs.

    Down in the ship’s hold was construction material needed to upgrade the northernmost military outpost, a Canadian spy station providing crucial intelligence on Russia’s military.

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    Sune Engel Rasmussen

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  • Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill Zone

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    Oksana Grytsenko

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    Jane Lytvynenko

    | Photography by Emanuele Satolli for WSJ

    MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Yaroslav Pavlivskiy waved his hands as he sprang from his car, pleading for mercy with the operator of a Russian drone circling overhead as he drove home from a market in the southern city of Kherson.

    The operator flicked a switch to release a grenade, which exploded and tore into the legs of the 69-year-old pensioner. A passerby used a belt as a tourniquet to stop him from losing too much blood, saving his life.

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    Oksana Grytsenko

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  • Israel, Gaza Aid Flotilla Brace for a Confrontation at Sea

    The pro-Palestine activists and others aboard the flotilla of boats heading for Gaza were off the coast of Crete when their marine radios crackled to life in the night. Abba hits including “Dancing Queen” took over channel 16, the international frequency used by vessels for safety or distress calls.

    “I thought it was a prank. Instead, it was the start of the operation,” said Italian lawmaker Arturo Scotto, who was on night duty on one of the boats. Suddenly the sky lighted up with flashes followed by loud bangs as low-flying drones hovered above. One of the boats suffered damage to its mast and had to abandon the voyage.

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    Margherita Stancati

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  • Russia’s Ambitious Plans in Africa Are Unraveling

    Russia, not long ago a rising military force in Africa, is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent.

    The Kremlin’s new official guns-for-hire military force, the Africa Corps, has failed to replicate the financial success and political sway once held by Russia’s private Wagner Group mercenary outfit. And some of Wagner’s own African ventures have unraveled since 2023 when its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, rebelled against President Vladimir Putin and then died when an explosive device blew the wing off his plane at 28,000 feet. 

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    Benoit Faucon

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  • Denmark Says New Drone Flights Over Military Base, Airports Are ‘Hybrid Attack’

    Denmark said it had suffered a hybrid attack by a professional actor after drones were observed over several airports late on Wednesday, the second time in less than a week that unmanned aircraft have disrupted air traffic in the Nordic nation, a NATO member.

    Drones were spotted over at least four airports in the western part of the country, including a military air base housing most of Denmark’s F-16 and F-35 jet fighters. 

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    Sune Engel Rasmussen

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