Drugs

Po­lice ar­rest­ed at least 49 peo­ple in sev­er­al coun­tries in the huge in­ter­na­tion­al op­er­a­tion, seiz­ing 30 tonnes of drugs.

Pres­i­dent Xiomara Cas­tro says emer­gency mea­sures aim to curb gang ex­tor­tion, re­cov­er ar­eas held by or­gan­ised crime.

Gov­ern­ment com­mits to ‘zero tol­er­ance’ ap­proach as it urges world ath­let­ics gov­ern­ing body not to ban its ath­letes.