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Drug kingpin El Chapo's 'untouchable' son, 36, gives away CARS, locals in Mexico

The son of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán treated residents in the family's home state of Sinaloa with a car giveaway, concert and food during an event ahead of Christmas.




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Sinaloa officials credit cops and military for near 60% murder reduction during the last decade

Officials in the Mexican state of Sinaloa report that murders dropped by 60 percent from 2010 to 2019, but El Chapo's old cartel still holds power in his home state.




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El Chapo's daughter unveils range of BEER named after her notorious drug lord dad

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's daughter has been driven keep his legacy alive with a fashion and lifestyle brand since he was sentenced to life in the United States last summer.




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Mexico extradites 'Lord of the Tunnels', who designed secret passageways to the U.S. for El Chapo

José 'The Lord of the Tunnels' Sánchez Villalobos is accused by a federal California court of building and operating two tunnels for El Chapo that connects Tijuana and San Diego.




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Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti is being held in El Chapo's former cell in Manhattan

Michael Avenatti, renowned for representing porn star Stormy Daniels, is being held at the notorious Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan for allegedly extorting $25m from Nike.




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Mexico seeks the extradition of El Chapo's godson, wanted award-winning journalist 2016 murder

The Mexican government is seeking the extradition of Dámaso 'El Mini Lic' López Serrano, El Chapo;s godson, who is accused of being the mastermind of a journalist's 2017 murder.




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El Chapo's 'errand boy' nicknamed Nose is extradited to the US to face marijuana trafficking charges

Mario Hidalgo Arguello, who is known by the nickname 'Nariz' or 'Nose' because of the unusual appearance of his nose, has been in the custody of federal authorities in San Diego since January 18.




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DEA says the Sinaloa Cartel is the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S. with El Chapo in jail

The DEA says El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel poses a threat to the United States like no other Mexican criminal group even with the notorious leader sitting behind bars in the U.S.




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Staff jailed for helping El Chapo ally escape Mexico City prison

Mexico City formally charged nine more guards, including a prison security chief, for their roles in allowing the escape of El Chapo's finance chief and two cartel members January 27.




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El Chapo bribed politicians and 'flew cocaine' to Mexico

A former Colombia treasury officials says his country's ex president Álvaro Uribe set up an airport hangar that allowed El Chapo to traffic 10,000 kilos of cocaine to Mexico from 2006 to 2007.




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'Pablo Escobar of Heroin' arrested in Colombia

Carlos Alberto Salazar was captured by the Colombian police in January while buying tickets for Colombia's 2020 Olympic soccer qualifier match.




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Doctor who called himself the 'El Chapo of opioids' admits to over-prescribing painkillers

New Jersey doctor Robert Delagente, 45, has pleaded guilty to distribution of controlled dangerous substances, conspiracy and falsifying medical records for dolling out opioids to patients.




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Mexican official 'who was bribed by El Chapo' offers $2million bail because he fears coronavirus

Genaro García Luna, who allegedly took millions in bribes from El Chapo's cartel, wants a New York federal court judge to put him under house arrest over fears that he will die if infected with coronavirus.




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El Chapo's mother calls on Mexican President to bring him home claiming was ILLEGALLY extradited

El Chapo's mother says her lawyers have provided Mexican officials proof that her son was illegally extradited to the United States in a letter she sent to Mexico's president.




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El Chapo's daughter prepares boxes of food and supplies for the elderly struggling with COVID-19

Alejandrina Gisselle Guzmán visited the poor in the Guadalajara metro area. She's using the earnings from her company Chapo 701, a fashion line inspired by her father, for the donations.




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El Chapo's drug lord sons enforce lockdown in Mexican city

Iván Archivaldo Guzmán (pictured) is one of the sons who has been enforcing the 10 p.m. coronavirus curfew in Culiacán, threatening anyone who breaks it with violence.




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Will Donald Trump unleash hell on Iran? Oil prices soaring, threats of 'full-on war'

The events in the obscure Saudi oil town of Abqaiq rocked world oil prices and dramatically raised the stakes in the ongoing tensions between the US and Iran.




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Esther McVey 'blames GMTV Labour cabal for her feud with Lorraine Kelly' 

Conservative leadership candidate Esther McVey and Lorraine Kelly have made headlines after Kelly appeared to snub her former GMTV colleague live on air when she was on Good Morning Britain.




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Farage plots £200 BILLION plan to rebuild regions outside London

The Brexit Party leader will unveil the bold plan, which includes rebuilding the transport system and free broadband for all homes at a Birmingham rally where he will unveil 100 general election candidates.




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Nigel Farage demands the Tories STAND ASIDE and give the Brexit Party a free run in Labour seats

Mr Farage told a rally in Birmingham that his new party was 'not a protest movement' as he unveiled the party's first 100 candidates to stand at any snap general election.




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Secret documents may help prove UK is paying terrorists with taxpayer cash

UK foreign aid money is said to have funded 'salaries' to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel. Recipients reportedly include bombmaker Abdullah Barghouti whose attacks killed 67 people.




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Staff in charge of the UK's £14bn foreign aid budget slammed after sharing £1.75million in BONUSES

The bonus handouts among staff at the Department for International Development (DfID) saw more than half of its 2,436 staff being rewarded with extra cash.




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Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools paid for with UK taxpayers' cash are closed

Classrooms in 800 Pakistani schools, paid for with British aid, have closed as they are not fit for use. An estimated 115,000 children are left taking classes outside or in overcrowded rooms.




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Amazon's $20million rescue fund branded 'paltry, woeful and a drop in the ocean'

EXCLUSIVE: The fires of the Amazon rainforest continue to wage, as do opposing politicians. But experts and green activists are calling for more to be done to tackle the ongoing issues.




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Boris Johnson will use £1billion of foreign aid to help developing countries tackle climate change

Ahead of today's United Nations climate summit in New York, the PM will unveil plans for fund aimed at developing practical technology to help the world's poor reduce their impact on the planet.




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Millions of pounds in foreign aid may be being wasted

Hundreds of millions of pounds in foreign aid may be being wasted because nobody is keeping track of how effectively the money is being spent, a damning report claims.




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Trump administration considers tying foreign aid to religious freedom

The Trump administration is considering tying foreign aid payments to how countries treat their religious minorities.




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UK spends £45million in foreign aid money on 'nanny state' projects

The cash went on 'lifestyle interventions' between 2005 and 2018, according to the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think-tank. More than 80 per cent of the money has been spent since 2016.




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Beauty queens want Australia to donate $93 million to world peace

Miss World Australia 2017 winner Esma Voloder and two other beauty queens headed to Canberra with World Vision to ask Australia to boost its foreign aide budget.




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Tories are planning to AXE the £14billion foreign aid department if Boris Johnson wins election 

The Department for International Development (Dfid) controls most of Britain's £14billion aid budget and has faced frequent criticism for waste and muddle since it was set up by Labour in 1997.




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Giuliani claims U.S. embassy would not stop a Ukraine corruption scheme funneling money to Soros

Rudy Giuliani alleges the U.S. Embassy - led by then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch - 'quashed' corruption probe into the disappearance of foreign aid that was going to George Soros.




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Boris Johnson will not axe the foreign aid department as he scales back proposed Whitehall shake-up 

The Department for International Development will now not merge with Foreign Office and a borders and immigration ministry, separate to the Home Office, is unlikely in the cabinet reshuffle.




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Jihadi textbooks in schools funded by £100 million of OUR cash as foreign aid

The Daily Mail has discovered that tens of millions of pounds of UK foreign aid is helping fund schools in Gaza and the West Bank that use such material in lessons.




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Inquiry begins into whether £14.6bn UK spends every year on foreign aid is effective use of money 

The £14.6billion budget has faced criticism, with questions over the legitimacy of the projects it is used on, including a mosque build in Egypt.




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MPs will hold urgent debate over 'jihadi textbooks' handed out at schools in Palestine

Nine-year-olds study maths by adding the number of martyrs in Palestinian uprisings in textbooks illustrated with pictures of their funerals.




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Britain's £4.2bn foreign gender equality budget must be managed better, says National Audit Office

Foreign aid chiefs have been told to improve how they manage the £4.2billion being spent on boosting gender equality overseas. In the past £4million has been spent on Yegna, Ethiopa's answer to the Spice Girls.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Markets will ride out the Corona Virus crisis

The recent stock market falls have been the worst since the financial crisis and, just as then, we are in new and sobering territory.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Why not get creative on savings? It's time for a bold and imaginative Budget

Rishi Sunak should stick with plans drawn up by his predecessor Sajid Javid, who was lining up a cut in income tax from 20p in the pound to 18p.




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RUTH SUTHERLAND: Good riddance to loathed taxes killing the High Street 

Far better if this short-term support becomes the first step on the road to fundamental reform of business rates, which are widely loathed and discredited, writes RUTH SUNDERLAND.




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RUTH SUTHERLAND: Coronavirus panic saw the nation's savings shredded in minutes 

RUTH SUNDERLAND: The terrifying collapse in share prices since the coronavirus started to spread worldwide is taking a vicious toll on the wealth of nations.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus raises the potentially explosive problem of dodgy corporate debt

'It is not inevitable at this stage that the epidemic will trigger a meltdown, but if it does, the most likely transmission mechanism is a tsunami of corporate debt', says Ruth Sunderland.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND argues the Government should step in to rescue struggling aviation industry

RUTH SUNDERLAND: It hasn't helped that the first to hold out the begging bowl is Virgin, which is part-owned by US giant Delta and partly by billionaire Sir Richard Branson.




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Britain's high street needs action to save businesses from coronavirus effects

it is outrageous that the Prime Minister should tell people to stay away from the high street without putting in place practical help for the businesses that will suffer as a result, Ruth Sunderland writes...




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RUTH SUNDERLAND says we must think about money, even when people's lives are in jeopardy

RUTH SUNDERLAND: How bad can it get? That's the question on the lips of investors, from the largest Wall Street operators to the most modest pension saver.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: A baptism of fire for Britain's financial big guns

As we enter one of the worst financial disasters this country has ever known, the two men in charge of saving the economy have been in their jobs for less than two months between them.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Save the airlines but don't let tycoons profit

RUTH SUNDERLAND: The airline industry can be accused of many sins. It is infested with brassy billionaires, such as the avaricious Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet (pictured).




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Brompton boss offers 200 cycles to help NHS staff get to work

Will Butler-Adams, the boss of Brompton Bikes, has offered 200 bikes to NHS key workers in the capital through an existing hire scheme, free of charge for 30 days, with a nominal £1 fee.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Rishi Sunak must fix the holes in his coronavirus safety net 

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Once again, the banks are in the dock, this time for letting down hundreds of thousands of firms in their hour of direst need.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Coronavirus could be the catalyst to a far fairer and better-functioning economy

Covid-19 should be the trigger for wholesale change. Once and for all, there must be a reckoning with the morally bankrupt moguls who put profits before the safety of their staff.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Don't turn Britain into a dividend desert

Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic.