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'Narcos' drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero captured in Mexico - as 14 killed in Black Hawk helicopter crash during operation - Sky News

Mexican military forces have captured notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the torture and murder of a US drug enforcement agent in 1985.

Caro Quintero, 69, was arrested after a search dog named Max, a bloodhound, flushed him out of hiding in shrubland in the town of San Simon in Sinaloa state during a joint operation by the navy and the attorney general's office, according to a statement from the Mexican navy.

Meanwhile, a Blackhawk helicopter carrying 15 people crashed near the coastal city of Los Mochis during the operation, killing 14 of those on board, the statement said. The one survivor is said to have been seriously injured.

Photos on social media showed the wreckage of the helicopter in a field.

The navy said the helicopter suffered an "accident" and the cause has not yet been determined.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a tweet that the helicopter crashed shortly before landing after supporting those who conducted the capture of Caro Quintero. He said the crash would be investigated.

Footage of the arrest released by the navy showed Caro Quintero, his face blurred, dressed in jeans, a soaking wet blue shirt and a baggy khaki jacket. He was being held by men wearing camouflage uniforms and equipped with assault rifles.

Caro Quintero was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine and marijuana to the US in the late 1970s and rose to prominence as a co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, one of Latin America's most powerful drug trafficking organisations during the 1980s - a story dramaised in the Narcos: Mexico series in 2018.

He had walked free in 2013 after 28 years in prison on a technicality by a Mexican judge, who overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of US Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.

However, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence - by which point Caro Quintero had already been spirited off in a waiting vehicle.

He went underground and is said to have returned to drug trafficking, unleashing bloody turf battles in the border state of Sonora.

FBI's most wanted

Caro Quintero was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $20m (£16.9m) reward offered for his capture.

The US government hailed the arrest, and said it would waste no time in requesting his extradition.

"This is huge," White House senior Latin America adviser Juan Gonzalez wrote on Twitter.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement: "There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement.

"Today's arrest is the culmination of tireless work by DEA and their Mexican partners to bring Caro Quintero to justice for his alleged crimes, including the torture and execution of DEA Special Agent Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena.

"We will be seeking his immediate extradition to the United States so he can be tried for these crimes in the very justice system Special Agent Camarena died defending."

Mexico's president has previously maintained he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence. However, the arrest comes just days after he met US President Joe Biden at the White House.

Depiction in Narcos

Mexico's drug wars were depicted in Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, the spin-off series of the hit show based on the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, which launched in 2018.

Caro Quintero is played by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta in the show, with Diego Luna starring as his business partner Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the leader of the Guadalajara cartel - and Michael Peña playing DEA agent Kiki Camarena.

The series explores the early origins of the Mexican drug wars and the cartel's rise in the 1980s, dramatising the story of how several factions united and increased operations from low-level dealers into a sophisticated multinational business.

In 2017, a filmmaker scouting locations for the hit series was found dead in his car with multiple bullet wounds in a remote area of central Mexico.

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Mexico captures infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero as 14 killed in Black Hawk helicopter crash - Sky News

Mexican military forces have captured notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the torture and murder of a US DEA agent in 1985.

Caro Quintero, 69, was arrested after a search dog named Max found him hiding in shrubland in the town of San Simon in Sinaloa state during a joint operation by the navy and the Attorney General's Office, according to a statement from the Mexican navy.

Meanwhile, a Blackhawk helicopter carrying 15 people crashed near the coastal city of Los Mochis during the operation, killing 14 of those onboard, the statement said.

Photos on social media showed the wreckage of the helicopter in a field.

The navy said the helicopter suffered an "accident", the cause of which has not yet been determined.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tweeted that the helicopter crashed shortly before landing after supporting those who conducted the capture of Caro Quintero. He said the crash would be investigated.

Caro Quintero rose to prominence as a co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, one of Latin America's most powerful drug trafficking organisations during the 1980s.

However, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence, but Caro Quintero had already been spirited off in a waiting vehicle.

He went underground and is said to have returned to drug trafficking, unleashing bloody turf battles in the border state of Sonora.

The events were dramatised in the 2018 Netflix series Narcos: Mexico.

Caro Quintero was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $20m (£16.9m) reward offered for his capture.

The US will seek his immediate extradition, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

"There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement," Mr Garland said in a statement.

"We will be seeking his immediate extradition to the United States so he can be tried for these crimes in the very justice system Special Agent Camarena died defending."

Mexico's president has maintained he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence, but the arrest came days after Mr Lopez Obrador met US President Joe Biden in the White House.

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Europe heatwave: Thousands escape wildfires in France, Spain and Greece - BBC

Firefighters tried to stop the flames reaching La Teste-de-Buch and thousands of residents were told to leave

Residents and holidaymakers have fled towns and villages in France, Spain and Portugal as fires are whipped up by high winds and tinder-dry conditions.

More than 11,000 people have been forced to leave France's south-western Gironde region in the past few days.

Dozens of fires are burning in Portugal and Spain where temperatures have surged above 40C.

At least 281 deaths in both countries were linked to the heat and several towns in western Spain were evacuated.

Portuguese villagers were also told to flee when flames crossed the border from Spain.

The head of France's firefighters' federation has warned of the impact global warming is having on civil protection. "It's firefighters, civil security who deal with the effects on a daily basis - and these effects aren't in 2030, they're right now," said Grégory Allione.

Heatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.

Firefighters in Spain fought to protect the town of Monsagro as fires erupted further south in the Monfragüe national park, home to rare species of birds. The main N-5 route in Cáceres just east of the park was cut off when a forest fire reached the road.

Incendio forestal en Casa de Miravete en la N-5, Provincia de Cáceres. Seguimos! ⁦@La_SER⁩ ⁦@A3Noticias⁩ ⁦@BomberosCUBP⁩ ⁦@EPExtremadura⁩ pic.twitter.com/l7DTMyUpyI
— Emilio Mateos Ortega (@emiliomoska) July 14, 2022

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In Portugal, 47C was recorded at Pinhão in the north on Thursday, a record high for July in mainland Portugal.

The Carlos III Health Institute said on Thursday that at least 43 people had died during the first two days of the latest heatwave, on Sunday and Monday, because of the heat.

Health officials in Portugal recorded 238 deaths more than normal since 7 July which they attributed to the very hot and very dry conditions. The worst affected are the elderly, children and people with chronic diseases. Emergency officials said 187 had been injured because of the fires in the past week.

More than 30 fires were active in Portugal on Friday, including one in a forest at Pombal in the central region of Leiria which has lasted a week. More than 300 sq km have been torched this year, a bigger area than in all of 2021.

The EU's Copernicus emergency management service tweeted a map showing the biggest fire risks across Southern Europe and Morocco.

#EFFIS Fire Danger Forecast for 15 July
🔥Very Extreme Danger forecasted in:
➡️South & western #Spain🇪🇸
➡️Central & southern #Portugal🇵🇹
➡️Southeastern #France🇫🇷
➡️Southeastern #Greece🇬🇷
Extreme Danger is present in areas of:
🇵🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇦🇹🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪🇦🇱🇸🇰🇵🇱🇭🇺🇷🇸🇬🇷🇹🇷🇨🇾 pic.twitter.com/mkmsshOvJg
— Copernicus EMS (@CopernicusEMS) July 15, 2022

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Police in south-west France went from door to door in an effort to evacuate 4,000 residents from the Cazaux district south-west of Bordeaux. Smoke could be seen close to the town of La Teste-de-Buch and there were long queues of traffic as people tried to leave and police blocked entrances to stop drivers getting in.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said an electric car was responsible for the fire at La Teste-de-Buch but prosecutors said a second fire at Landiras in the Gironde region was being classified as criminal.

One holidaymaker, Matthias, told BFMTV how he and his son had been told to escape immediately: "We started packing our things but the lady told us, no, you have to leave everything as it is. You try to keep calm but it's hard not to be scared because it happens so fast."

Firefighters were deployed to stop blazes spreading in the Cáceres in western Spain

An estimated 73 sq km of pine forest has burned down in recent days, including around Arcachon and Landiras. Temperatures hit 40C in several areas of the south on Friday, including Béziers and Nîmes, and the head of the national firefighters' federation warned there were still two months of summer to go.

"The situation is highly complex. Our morale is still good but fatigue sets in fast. That's why we're calling for a target of 250,000 volunteer firefighters," Mr Allione told RMC TV.

Italy and Croatia have also reported forest fires this week, and eight people had to jump into the sea at Bibione on the Adriatic coast to escape the fire and smoke.

Strong winds have greatly increased the risk of wildfires in five regions in Greece, civil protection officials have warned.

Central Greece, Attica and Crete are among the areas most at risk and the fire brigade said they had counted 51 forest fires in the past 24 hours.

Fires were reported in Crete and on the mainland in Attica on Friday. Emergency services issued an urgent appeal to residents south-east of Athens to flee the village of Feriza Saronikos for the coast.

⚠️ Χάρτης Πρόβλεψης Κινδύνου🔥για Παρασκευή 15/7:
🟠 Πολύ υψηλός κίνδυνος 4⃣ σε:
📍#Aττική, κεντρική & νότια #Εύβοια, #Αργολίδα
📍περιοχές #Βοιωτία & #Κορινθία
📍#Κρήτη, #Λέσβο, #Σάμο, #Ικαρία, #Χίο & #Ψαρά
🟡 Υψηλός κίνδυνος 3⃣ σε αρκετές περιοχές
ℹ️ https://t.co/UcUk400yPY pic.twitter.com/VBzEyHpkun
— Civil Protection GR (@GSCP_GR) July 14, 2022

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Across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, toxic wildfires have also been ripping through parts of Morocco.

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2022-07-15 17:47:22Z
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Sri Lanka seeks way forward after president quits - BBC

People offer food to army soldiers to celebrate the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as president of Sri Lanka, outside the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 15 July 2022

Sri Lanka is seeking a way out of political and economic chaos after its President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned and fled the country.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as temporary leader on Friday and has the ruling party's backing to take the role permanently.

This makes him the favourite when a new president is chosen next week, but may prove unacceptable to protesters.

Mr Rajapaksa fled to Singapore, sparking celebrations in the street.

He and his family have been blamed for a deep economic crisis, with Sri Lankans facing acute shortages of food, fuel and other basic supplies.

Businesses and shops reopened in the capital, Colombo, on Friday morning after a curfew was lifted, but soldiers could still be seen on major roads.

At the same time, thousands of people were back in long queues outside petrol stations.

The process of parliament electing a new president will begin on Saturday, with MPs expected to take a vote on 20 July.

After being sworn in as interim leader, Mr Wickremesinghe promised to act quickly to put a democratically elected president in place.

"I will take immediate steps to establish the rule of law and peace in the country. I accept 100% the right to peaceful protests. But some are trying to do acts of sabotage," he said.

Given the governing party has a majority, MPs are thought likely to back Mr Wickremesinghe, who has close links with the Rajapaksa family.

But whether Sri Lanka's public would accept this is another matter, because Mr Wickremesinghe's resignation as PM was a key demand of protesters.

Earlier this week, crowds stormed the former prime minister's compound, clashing with security forces.

A demonstrator, Manuri Pabasari, told the BBC at the time that a protest rally against Ranil Wickremesinghe was expected in the coming days.

"He has no people's mandate [and] is a well known Rajapaksa supporter," she added. "I mean the new president and the new prime minister should be not a Rajapaksa supporter."

Meanwhile, Singapore says the ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not ask for political asylum when he arrived there.

The former president, who arrived with his wife and two bodyguards, no longer has legal immunity as a head of state and his position is now more precarious as he tries to find a safe country to shelter in.

He is expected to stay in Singapore for some time before possibly moving to the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lankan security sources told AFP news agency.

Sri Lanka: The basics

Sri Lanka is an island nation off southern India: It won independence from British rule in 1948. Three ethnic groups - Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim - make up 99% of the country's 22 million population.
One family of brothers has dominated for years: Mahinda Rajapaksa became a hero among the majority Sinhalese in 2009 when his government defeated Tamil separatist rebels after years of bitter and bloody civil war. His brother Gotabaya, who was defence secretary at the time and later became president, fled the country after mass unrest.
Presidential powers: The president is the head of state, government and the military in Sri Lanka, but does share a lot of executive responsibilities with the prime minister, who heads up the ruling party in parliament.
Now an economic crisis has led to fury on the streets: Soaring inflation has meant some foods, medication and fuel are in short supply, there are rolling blackouts and ordinary people have taken to the streets in anger, with many blaming the Rajapaksa family and their government for the situation.

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2022-07-15 14:25:07Z
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Italian debt market flashes warning as Draghi government teeters - Financial Times

Investors are demanding a higher premium to hold Italian debt after prime minister Mario Draghi offered his resignation in response to a major rift with a key constituent in his cross-party national unity government.

Draghi’s resignation was rejected by the country’s president late on Thursday, sparking uncertainty about whether the former head of the European Central Bank will remain in office, or whether early elections are around the corner.

The prime minister is due to address parliament next Wednesday.

Against that backdrop of political turmoil, the gap in 10-year borrowing costs between Italy and Germany, seen as a key measure of risk, hit a one-month high on Friday morning. The spread widened as German Bunds, a regional haven asset, rallied strongly, pushing yields lower.

The widening Italy-Germany spread — which hit 2.19 percentage points on Friday morning — highlights investors’ growing worries over politics in Rome at a time when the country also faces rising economic risks.

The ECB is expected on Thursday to lift interest rates for the first time in a decade. The prospect of higher borrowing costs has raised concerns over so-called fragmentation risk in the eurozone — a divergence in the yields of heavily indebted southern European economies with their northern peers.

The gap still remains below the highs reached in June before the ECB announced that it is working an “anti-fragmentation” programme, but Rabobank analysts said Italian spreads have now entered “the ‘danger zone’ of 2-2.5 percentage points that has prompted verbal interventions from the ECB in the past.”

Italy’s political crisis erupted on Thursday after the populist Five Star party boycotted a parliamentary vote on a €26bn package to help families hit by rising food and energy prices.

Although the measure was adopted by parliament with a comfortable majority, Draghi had always said that he was only willing to lead a broad, cross-party national unity government to ensure support for an economic and social reform programme intended to lift Italy’s long-term growth trajectory.

Italy has committed to carrying out the reform agenda in order to access its €200bn share of the EU’s €750bn Covid-recovery fund. Lifting Italy’s long-term growth trajectory is also critical for ensuring the sustainability of its government debt, which is over 150 per cent of its GDP.

“Draghi’s departure from the political scene and snap elections would be a clear negative for Italy and the EU,” said Ludovico Sapio, economist at Barclays. He added that Italy would not benefit from the ECB’s anti-fragmentation tool “if its financial conditions deteriorate due to political developments”.

Members of Italy’s business community are also aghast at the developments, which come at a time when the country’s economic prospects have dimmed due to the fallout from the war on Ukraine.

Italy’s next elections are due in spring, but early elections, following a government collapse, would complicate the preparation of the new budget in the autumn.

“Regardless of the internal disagreements, pulling the plug on a government that was at the end of the road is simply nonsensical from a business standpoint,” said a Milan-based chief executive who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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2022-07-15 11:00:27Z
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Children 'torn to pieces' by Russian missile attack on Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia - The Times

Ukraine demanded that Russia face a war crimes prosecution yesterday after at least 23 people, including three children, were killed by a cruise missile attack on a busy city centre hundreds of miles from the front line.

Video posted online from Vinnytsia, southwest of Kyiv, showed burning vehicles and buildings engulfed in smoke. The body of a child, tangled with her pushchair and her mother’s severed leg, could be seen protruding from a bloodied white sheet. Her mother survived. The child was later named as Liza Dmitrieva, aged four. She was heading to a speech therapy session with her mother when they were killed. “The child is in pieces,” a tearful Ukrainian soldier said.

Many of the wounded were in a critical condition, an official

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2022-07-14 23:00:00Z
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Ivana Trump: Former US president's first wife has died aged 73 - Sky News

Ivana Trump, the first wife of former US president Donald Trump, has died aged 73.

Mr Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social.

He wrote: "I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City.

"She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.

"Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr, Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her.

"Rest In Peace, Ivana!"

Ivana and Donald Trump married in 1977.

Partners in love and business - with her playing roles such as manager of one of his Atlantic City casinos - they were fixtures of New York's see-and-be-seen scene before their equally public, and messy divorce in 1992, after Mr Trump had met his next wife, Marla Maples.

During the split, Mrs Trump accused him of rape in a sworn statement in the early 1990s. She later said she did not mean it literally, but rather that she felt violated.

But in recent years she had been on good terms with her former husband.

Ivana told the New York Post in 2016 she was both a supporter and adviser to the former president.

"I suggest a few things," she told the paper. "We speak before and after the appearances and he asks me what I thought."

She said she once advised him to "be more calm".

But she added: "Donald cannot be calm. He's very outspoken. He just says it as it is."

'I'm first lady'

In 2017, while promoting a book, she told TV show Good Morning America she spoke to the then-president about every two weeks and had his direct White House number, but did not want to call too frequently "because Melania is there and I don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife, OK?" she said with a laugh.

"I'm first lady, OK?"

Melania Trump's spokesperson at the time responded, saying there was "clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise".

Ivana was born Ivana Zelnickova in 1949 in the Czech city of Gottwaldov, the former city of Zlin that just had been renamed by the Communists, who took over the country in 1948.

After divorcing Donald Trump, she went on to become an entrepreneur in her own right, starting a fashion line and writing various books.

She married and divorced her third and fourth husbands and even made a movie cameo as America's most famous ex-wife in The First Wives Club where she had the immortal line "don't get mad - get everything!"

Dearly missed

The Trump family released a statement, calling her "an incredible woman - a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend."

The statement went on to say: "Ivana Trump was a survivor. She fled from communism and embraced this country.

"She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination. She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and ten grandchildren."

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