US military strike on suspected drug boat kills three in Pacific

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The US military on Thursday attacked a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean that it accused of smuggling drugs, killing three people in the latest strike under the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The attack takes the number of people killed in US military boat strikes to at least 211 since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September. President Donald Trump has said the US is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has defended the strikes as a necessary step to curb the flow of drugs into the United…

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