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Colombia will launch a military offensive against illegal armed groups operating in border areas, and it is seeking collaboration from neighbors, Interior Minister Alfonso Prada said on Monday.

Thirty-five people suspected of involvement in human trafficking have been arrested in a massive operation that mobilised around 400 officers in Portugal's southern Alentejo region, Portuguese police said on Wednesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In urging a judge for a light prison sentence for Joel Greenberg, his attorney Fritz Scheller blasted the U.S. Department of Justice for not criminally charging other individuals, despite the evidence and collaboration provided to prosecutors by the disgraced Seminole County tax collector.

Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS in February 2015.

Tribunal hears there were grounds to suspect the then 15-year-old had been groomed as a child bride

At least 18 people died in fighting between two FARC dissident factions for control of a drug trafficking area in Colombia's southern jungle, said Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez on Monday.

Lawyers representing the 23-year-old argue she was ‘groomed’ as a 15-year-old

The man, aged in his 20s, and the woman, aged in her 30s, are currently detained at Tallaght Garda Station in Dublin