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The Trump administration launched an offensive on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in recent months, killing dozens through targeted missile strikes.

"There is still a lot of work to be done," Russian President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters at a briefing in the Kremlin.

The hunger strike began on November 2 to commemorate the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, with activists Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refusing food.

The Russian defense ministry has since posted videos of soldiers in the “center” of Pokrovsk raising the Russian tricolor flag.

"The most radical solution is to cut Ukraine off from the sea, then piracy will be impossible in principle," Putin said in televised remarks.

"If Europe suddenly wants to start a war with us and starts it," Putin said, then it would end so swiftly for Europe that there would be no one to negotiate with in Europe.

"After nearly four years of pain, waiting, and difficult trials, my husband, Juan Orlando Hernandez, returned to being a free man," said Hernandez's wife, Ana Garcia.

The Venezuelan government has previously said that nearly 14,000 Venezuelans had returned home from the US on the flights between February and November.

Deadly attacks near the Afghan border have pushed Tajikistan to consider Russian troop support, with talks underway on a joint patrol mission backed by the CSTO.

Three suspects were detained in the investigation related to EU-funded training for junior diplomats, the prosecutors said.