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All about numbersThe Petro regime also continued to target criminal networks trafficking cocaine through arrests and seizures of shipments.In November, Petro announced that the Colombian government had made the largest drug bust in a decade, with law enforcement seizing approximately 14 tons of cocaine.Gloria Miranda was appointed by Petro in 2022 to head Colombia’s Illegal Crop Substitution Directorate, the agency that oversees voluntary eradication efforts.She believes the Petro administration’s efforts are being misunderstood as ineffective.”There is a theory that Colombia is doing nothing in the fight against drug trafficking,” she told Al Jazeera.”But we have seized 276,000 kilograms (608,500 pounds)…

london — The company announced that new users in the UK will no longer be able to access Aylo’s porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube, from Monday, citing changes to age verification requirements that it says have made the internet less secure. In a statement announcing the move last week, Airo said people with existing accounts and age verification will continue to have access. The UK introduced mandatory age verification on pornographic websites in July 2025 as part of the Online Safety Act, aimed at preventing children from encountering pornographic content online. In the six months since then, the…

Luke Humphries described Luke Littler as “the best darts player of all time” after losing to the 19-year-old in the final of the Winmaw World Masters.Littler’s 6-5 victory in the epic final at Milton Keynes gave him one of the two televised major titles that had eluded him in an otherwise impressive career. In just over two years on the PDC Tour, he has risen to No. 1 in the world, winning the World Championship twice, the World Match Play, Premier League, British Open, World Grand Prix, Players Championship Final, World Series Final and Grand Slam of Darts twice. He…

Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which leverages the company’s camera network to find lost dogs, is now available to all Ring customers in the United States. For the first time, this feature will be available to those who don’t own a Ring camera. Launched last fall, Search Party uses AI to find potential matches for lost dogs in neighborhood camera footage. When a neighbor reports a lost dog in the Ring app, nearby outdoor cameras use AI to scan for potential matches. If a match is found, the owner of that camera will receive an alert and can optionally choose…

Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger watches the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field on November 10, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Michael Reeves | Getty Images Sports | Getty Imagesdisney We’re ready to welcome our next CEO. On Monday, the company’s management outlined its recent successes in its quarterly earnings report. CEO Bob Iger has insisted that Disney will be ready to seize momentum once his soon-to-be-named successor picks up the baton. “I’m extremely proud of everything we’ve accomplished over the past three years to put Disney on a continued growth trajectory,” Iger told investors…

Toto Wolff pointed to the legality of Mercedes’ new engine and criticized rivals, telling them to “just get along” ahead of the 2026 F1 season.Reports ahead of the new campaign, which begins with the Australian Grand Prix on March 8, say Ferrari, Honda and Audi are concerned that pre-season title favorites Mercedes and Red Bull, which are producing their own power units for the first time, have established a performance advantage through a so-called “loophole” in the regulations. The discussion focuses on compression ratio limits amid suggestions from rivals that both manufacturers may have found a way to achieve higher…

MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on July 26, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesstrategy Bitcoin plunged 8% on Monday after falling below crypto treasury firms’ average purchase price per token. Bitcoin was trading at around $74,500 at its low on Monday, its lowest price since April of last year.That’s just below Strategy’s average purchase price of $76,052 per bitcoin, according to a Feb. 2 regulatory filing, raising concerns that Michael Saylor’s company could be underwater if the digital currency continues to fall. According to the company’s website, it holds approximately $56 billion…

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.good morning. America’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his own shadow this morning, meaning there are six more weeks of winter ahead. After the recent series of cold temperatures, I can’t say I’m surprised.Stock futures are falling this morning. The three major indexes have come out of the decline.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Everything that shinesGold extended its ferocious rally on Thursday as investors sought safety amid geopolitical and economic uncertainty, while silver hit nearly $120.Latikuna |…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – During a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in September, Pakistan Army Chief Marshal Asim Munir opened his briefcase with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif standing next to him.Inside was a shiny mineral. Their exhibition was part of Pakistan’s latest proposal to the Trump administration. Pakistan was willing to open its minerals to American investment.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listLess than five months later, that promise took a dark turn. Most of Pakistan’s richest mineral deposits are located in Balochistan. The country’s largest and poorest state has long seen a separatist movement…

Cocoa Beach, Florida  —  Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just where this bold era of science began, with multiple museums to document it. It remains the most active spaceport in the world. Inside the Apollo/Saturn V hangar at Kennedy Space Center, one of the many artifacts I felt excited to be only feet away from was the Lunar Roving Vehicle, or “moon buggy,” driven by astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission of 1972. It’s…