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The lessons of the 2008 Georgia conflict went unheeded by Washington and Kiev, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN has claimed The West is treating Ukraine as a proxy against Russia to be used and abandoned, the same way it previously treated Georgia, Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN Dmitry Polyansky has said.

The organized crime syndicate controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in the bloc’s countries, according to Europol A sprawling cocaine “super cartel” has been taken down in the EU in a series of coordinated law enforcement raids, Europol announced on Monday. The raids, dubbed ‘Operation Desert Light’, were carried out in Spain, France,…