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Mehdi Hasan:
Does anyone still doubt that Argentina are being protected and promoted and coddled throughout this tournament?

The suspect, who works as a caregiver in the UK, was arrested at the departure hall of Terminal 2 of the Lagos Airport while attempting to board a Virgin Atlantic airline flight to London on Sunday, 28 June

VIDEO: NDLEA arrests Nigerian-British grandma with cocaine hidden in plantain peels pic.twitter.com/EoQSCnBPG5

— TheCable (@thecableng) July 5, 2026

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 67-year-old Nigerian-British grandma following the discovery of 13kg of cocaine in her luggage at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday. in Abuja.

The anti-drug agency said the drugs were concealed in peels of plantain, which appeared as real plantains and were packed among other food items.

Mr Babafemi said the suspect, who works as a caregiver in the UK, was arrested at the departure hall of Terminal 2 of the Lagos Airport while attempting to board a Virgin Atlantic airline flight to London on Sunday, 28 June.

He said that a thorough search of her bags resulted in the discovery of 31 big wraps of cocaine, which were packaged to appear like plantain hands, weighing a total of 13 kilograms.

“In her statement, the elderly woman admitted full ownership of the recovered cocaine exhibits,” he said.

In another development, he said, a sting operation in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State on Monday, 29 June, has resulted in the arrest of a 45-year-old PhD student at the University of Putra, Malaysia, over the seizure of 5.80kg of cocaine.

Mr Babafemi said the drugs were concealed in the walls of nine cartons of Orijin bitters, a consignment that was part of a consolidated cargo heading to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He said the arrest of the suspect in Anambra followed the interception of 36 parcels of cocaine, with a gross weight of 5.80kg, concealed within the walls of the herbal drink cartons.

Four suspects were initially arrested in parts of Lagos during the investigation, including a driver who delivered the consignment to the cargo agent.

“Also, a trader at ASPANDA market, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos, handed over the consignment to the driver for delivery to the cargo agent.

“There was also an accomplice who supplied the cartons of Origin bitters used in concealing the cocaine.

“The efforts eventually paid off, leading to the unmasking of the main suspect hiding in his village, Aziora, Ozubulu, Anambra, as the leader of the syndicate,” he said.

In another development, in Taraba, NDLEA operatives, acting on credible intelligence, on Saturday, 4 July, arrested a suspect with 43,980 capsules of Tramadol.

Mr Babafemi said the drugs were concealed inside two vehicle fuel tanks along Zaki-biam roa,d Wukari Local Government Area of the state, while coming from Onitsha, Anambra state.

“Two suspects were arrested in possession of 1.7 kilograms of methamphetamine by NDLEA officers on Thursday, July 2, during a raid operation at Gwantu, Gwantu LGA, Kaduna state.

“A 65-year-old suspect was nabbed with 231.7kg skunk at Ikwo, Ebonyi state, on Saturday,” he said.

Similarly, a 75-year-old grandpa was arrested in possession of 15kg of skunk at Kurgwi, Qua’anpan Local Government Area (LGA), Plateau State, on Friday, 3 July.

Additionally, in Gombe State, NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence on Wednesday, arrested two suspects at Kuri village, Yamaltu- Deba LGA, where they were found with 587 blocks of cannabis sativa, weighing 556kg.

With the same level of dedication, Mr Babafemi said that commands and formations of the agency across the country have continued the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities.

The campaigns, he said, were carried out in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among other places, over the past week.

The NDLEA, he added, took the campaign to students and staff of Girls Secondary School, Abagana, Anambra, and Government Technical College, Obe, Enugu.

Others include Adeola Odutola College, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, and FCE Staff Demonstration School, Kabuga, Kano State.

The NDLEA Chairman, Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of the MMIA, Taraba, Kaduna, Ebonyi, Plateau, and Gombe Commands for the arrests and seizures.

He tasked officers to continue to raise the operational bar.

...Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.That is how a country develops an actual elite.

Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system

Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.

That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.

A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol."

The U.S. government pressed commercial satellite imagery providers in April to restrict access to images showing destruction at American bases as well as the broader conflict zone, making it difficult to see the full scope of the damage

When the Iranian missiles and drones came for the nerve center of America’s naval operations in the Middle East, some of them hit their mark.

The U.S. Navy base in Bahrain was repeatedly targeted between late February and June. Strikes that got through caused extensive damage, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of satellite imagery, social-media footage and interviews with current and former servicemembers—damage that the Pentagon hasn’t publicly acknowledged. Hit hard were the command headquarters and at least a dozen other buildings, along with two satellite communications terminals.

The military said no one was killed at the base, known as Naval Support Activity Bahrain, and that the strikes didn’t significantly impact operations. The U.S. evacuated most personnel but has kept a small staff on the ground.

The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East—along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities—has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region, according to U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations.

The military is now considering revamping the base in Bahrain, reducing the U.S. presence in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and moving some bases or base functions west, farther from the reach of Iranian missiles and drones, according to the officials familiar with the deliberations.

Structures that were attacked may not be rebuilt. Command and control nodes could be moved underground. And military capabilities could become more spread out across the region, the officials said, though they cautioned that no decisions had been made.

Israel is one of the locations being considered for basing, according to two of the officials. The country hosted dozens of U.S. aircraft, including jet fighters and refueling planes, during the war.

The U.S. government pressed commercial satellite imagery providers in April to restrict access to images showing destruction at American bases as well as the broader conflict zone, making it difficult to see the full scope of the damage. Officials said the move would help protect U.S. forces

You’re such a dumbass, Piers

Piers Morgan : Israel Govt propagandist, currently in Israel, demands my U.S. visa is revoked for asking how many civilians Israeli forces have killed in Gaza.

Mark Levin : Pier is such a putz. Unlike the RAF in WWII, that used saturation bombing of towns and cities as a retributive tactic, the IDF did not. Remember that, Einstein?

The better question this bigot, Pier, should ask is what measures did the IDF use to try to avoid civilian casualties and what measures did Hamas use to increase them.

You’re such a dumbass, Piers. Your bogus VISA should be revoked. Get out of my country.

"How many civilians have actually been killed?! You don't know, do you?"

Piers Morgan grills John Spencer on his claim that Israel's ratio of civilian deaths to combatants in Gaza is "the best ratio in modern warfare".

📺https://t.co/VKsYjaEG4S@piersmorgan | @SpencerGuard pic.twitter.com/DsouomK8VT

— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) June 25, 2026

ITALY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANTONIO TAJANI

I spoke with the Iranian Foreign Minister @aragchchi. Italy has never taken part in any military initiative and has never authorized the use of bases for war actions against Iran, in the strictest respect of the treaties with the United States. I requested a return to full opening of the Strait of Hormuz, facilitating the passage of all Italian cargo ships still blocked. The reopening of the Italian embassy in Tehran is a strong signal of dialogue, also in view of the resumption of economic and cultural relations

g0ldenval:
deep down every muslim aspires to be a terrorist but they always deny it
give every muslim a choice between a good peaceful life and a suicide vest
they will always choose a suicide vest

WhiteIverson:
Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims

WhiteIverson:
China categorized Islam as a mental illness I hope you know that

WhiteIverson:
Why don't you read up the treatment of Muslims in Russia and China Mr propaganda 😂

madridguy:
The same propaganda that make many people think China and Russia are evil, it’s the reason you think the USA is fighting for democracy anywhere. The world is run by propaganda.

CodeTemplar:
May the jihad locate him right in that studio.

Tucker Carlson:

Many times I said on television, "The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They're all crazy. They're all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century." And I believed that.

I was hysterical. I believed that. No, that's not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it.

Tucker Carlson:

Many times I said on television, "The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They're all crazy. They're all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century." And I believed that.

I was hysterical. I believed that.… pic.twitter.com/z0if7Aypr6

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 25, 2026

it’s like we are trying so much to accommodate unintelligent people and ignorant people cause we don’t want them to feel bad and all these things

There is a massive attack on the educational system in Nigeria. The society is not celebrating academic excellence.

This “Olodo” uprising we are witnessing is terrible. I promise you, it’s like we are trying so much to accommodate unintelligent people and ignorant people ’cause we don’t want them to feel bad and all these things. So now they are now like the majority. There is a massive attack on the educational system in Nigeria, bro asides from like the kidnappings and the Boko Haram, which is like, bro, those guys are literally going at that nerve center. Other factors is, you know, leadership not prioritizing things that are important, the society not celebrating academic excellence. People don’t even want to go to school anymore. It’s not even just Yahoo culture now, we have Peller culture. You know, so if we keep rewarding all these guys like, oh people see that you just have to just do dumb crazy shit, just go online, you know, maybe do some obscene whatever and you get clicks, you get numbers like that’s what moves the needle in Nigeria. [b]Then what are you telling, you know, the rest of the impressionable young people out there?[/b]I have nothing against Peller personally, like bro get your coins by any means, but you know at the end of the day that thing is only going to be sustainable for a period of time.

"Nigerian society is no longer celebrating academic excellence. It’s not even Yahøø culture anymore; now we have a 'Peller culture.' This 'Olodo' uprising we are witnessing is terrible. It feels like we are trying so hard to accommodate ignorance so people won’t feel bad, and now… pic.twitter.com/jJoxPXEIgx

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) June 25, 2026

CodeTemplar:
Professor of accusation, are your a nigerian lightskinned policewoman?

redeployment of the Lebanese armed forces, in order to ensure that the State exercises its monopoly on the use of force......france is ready... to bolster the Lebanese armed forces.

I met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Nabih Berri.

To each of them, I reiterated France's commitment to Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The establishment of a robust ceasefire, which must be respected by all, should enable the launch of a simultaneous process of Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory and redeployment of the Lebanese armed forces, in order to ensure that the State exercises its monopoly on the use of force.

France is ready to concretely support this process and to mobilize the international community in the coming weeks, alongside the Lebanese government, to bolster the Lebanese armed forces and address the needs of displaced populations

CodeTemplar:
If sniper shot hit a b^by skull in densely populated Gaza, can any competent doctor anywhere in the world possible do an autopsy on such a byproduct? Be using what God gave you.

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said ‌on Tuesday.

The report by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Around 30% of those killed in the Gaza war were children, the report found.

A previous report by the commission in September found that Israel had committed genocide ​in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited these acts — accusations that Israel called scandalous.

Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel ​rejected what it called the Commission's "second defamatory advocacy report".

"Israel dismisses this libelous sham," it said in a statement, adding that "every child ⁠deserves protection" and asserting that the report ignored "the brutal tactics of Hamas".

The U.N. commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after ​a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. It said this was a key element establishing genocidal intent by Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian ​group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission's chair, in a statement accompanying the report.

CHILD DEATHS
The report found that the proportion of children killed was higher than in previous conflicts. Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were ​killed, around 30% of the overall death toll.

By comparison, in hostilities in Gaza in 2008–2009 and 2014, children made up approximately 24% of conflict-related fatalities, the report said.

Israeli ​forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated residential areas despite mounting child casualties, the commission said.

“This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in ‌such high ⁠numbers, were intentional,” it said. It said it believed children were targeted collectively because the Israeli security forces considered the civilian population as a whole to be associated with Hamas and other armed groups.

A rebuttal shared by Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel "consistently strives to minimize harm to children even in situations of conflict" and that Israel rejected the suggestion it deliberately targets children "in the strongest terms".

Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine ​their future.

Conditions imposed by Israel in Gaza, ​including widespread attacks, repeated displacement and ⁠starvation caused by the blockade of aid, food and medicine, severely harmed children’s health and development, resulting in preventable deaths and trauma, the report said.

The inquiry also found that attacks on healthcare and reproductive facilities impacted the survival of newborns and reported ​increases in miscarriages, and that nearly all children in Gaza were reported to require psychological support.

Israel's rebuttal said the report ​failed to mention Israel's ⁠role in facilitating vaccinations and the entry of medical staff, and the establishment of field hospitals. It accused Hamas of systematically diverting humanitarian aid and fuel for hospitals. Hamas has rejected such accusations.

WEST BANK
In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Commission found a sharp increase in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian children and documented evidence of torture, including ⁠sexual and ​gender-based violence, during mass arrests and detention.

It said Palestinian children, particularly boys, were subjected to systematic mistreatment ​in detention, including forced stripping, beatings and food deprivation.

The commission concluded that the treatment constituted the crimes against humanity of torture and other inhumane acts causing great suffering or serious injury.

Israel's rebuttal said the ​report's findings on the West Bank omitted context on the "constant terrorist threat" that it said Israeli security forces were responding to.

All of the modern greats are at this World Cup - Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, Salah, Kane - and all of them are scoring great goals.

Except one.