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Mexico's army killed the leader of the Elisco New Generation Cartel, the country's most notorious drug trafficking gang.

Under Nemiso Ruben Osiguera Serentes, aka El Mencho, the organization rapidly expanded.

He was one of the traffickers most wanted by America's Drug Enforcement Administration. Following the military operation, burning vehicles blocked

several roads in the western state of Yelisco, a tactic gang's used to stall security forces.

Ukraine accused Hungary and Slovakia of blackmail because they threatened to cut off supplies of electricity.

That threat was a response to Ukraine's failure so far to resume transporting Russian oil to the two countries.

Ukraine stopped shipments on January 27 after Russian drones attacked its pipeline infrastructure.

Meanwhile, an explosion killed one woman, a police officer

and injured 25 other people in Leviv, a western Ukrainian city. The government called it a terror attack.

Greenland declined Donald Trump's offer to send an American hospital vote with medical supplies.

The Arctic Islands Prime Minister, Jens

Frederick Nielsen, called Mr. Trump's claim on true social that many Greenlanders are not being

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