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AdvertisementAmericas and the CaribbeanWorldAmericasUS to send survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel back to Ecuador and ColombiaThe pair were picked up by the US military after American forces attacked a submersible vessel in the Caribbean
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPAssociated PressPublished: 6:18am, 19 Oct 2025The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday.
AdvertisementThe military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel on Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such attack since early September.
“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump said in a social media post.
“U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal na..

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AdvertisementChina’s Communist PartyChinaPoliticsChina’s official media calls for end to name-and-shame campaign against grass-roots cadresSeries of commentaries says insulting officials will backfire and more effort must be made to tackle reasons for perceived poor performance
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPWilliam ZhengPublished: 10:00am, 6 Dec 2025China’s official media has called on disciplinary watchdogs to stop giving low-level officials insulting nicknames that imply they are not doing their jobs properly.The provincial publicity department of the eastern province of Zhejiang became the latest to weigh in on this issue. In a commentary posted on its official social media on Tuesday, it warned that this approach was likely to backfire.
It criticised the use of labels such as “refrigerator” officials to describe those who “don’t speak up, stay cold and don’t change”; “treadmill” types who “look busy and sweaty but who make no progress in their work”; or “lipstick” cad..