Sri Lanka Arrests 22 Monks After 240 Pounds of Cannabis Found in Luggage – The New York Times

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  1. Sri Lanka Arrests 22 Monks After 240 Pounds of Cannabis Found in Luggage  The New York Times
  2. Sri Lanka arrests 22 Buddhist monks allegedly carrying over 110 kilos of cannabis at airport  CNN
  3. 22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust  CBS News
  4. Sri Lanka police arrest 22 Buddhist monks after 110kg of cannabis found in luggage  The Guardian
  5. Sri Lankan monks arrested after 110kg of cannabis discovered in their luggage  BBC
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Indian billionaire’s son offers to save Escobar’s hippos – BBC

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  1. Indian billionaire's son offers to save Escobar's hippos  BBC
  2. Billionaire's son offers home for Colombia's "cocaine hippos" rather than have them killed  CBS News
  3. Descendants of Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' to be killed in Colombia  USA Today
  4. Anant Ambani urges Colombia to halt killing of 80 hippos, offers relocation to Vantara  Moneycontrol.com
  5. Colombia To Kill Dozens of Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’—Here’s Why  Yahoo
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Hezbollah drone strikes target Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon

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Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon

Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides.

Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones.

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Japanese Crude Supertanker Attempts Hormuz Exit in War’s First – Bloomberg.com

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  1. Japanese Crude Supertanker Attempts Hormuz Exit in War’s First  Bloomberg.com
  2. First Fully Loaded L.N.G. Tanker Since War Began Appears to Have Crossed the Strait  The New York Times
  3. Idemitsu Maru tanker carrying Saudi oil crosses Strait of Hormuz  Reuters
  4. Some Energy Shipments Make Way Out of Mideast Gulf  Energy Intelligence
  5. More than 150 tankers still trapped in Gulf as Japanese VLCC appears to exit Hormuz  Lloyd's List
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UAE quits Opec in win for Trump as oil cartel weakened

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US president has accused organisation of ‘ripping off the rest of the world’ by inflating oil prices

The United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel after 60 years of membership, in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, as global energy markets contend with the biggest supply crisis in history.

The shock loss of the UAE, Opec’s third-largest oil producer, is expected to weaken the group, which for decades has worked together to use its collective oil production to influence global oil market prices.

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