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Stockholm, Sweden - It's a sunny summer morning in the historic university city of Uppsala in central Sweden. Two teenage boys glide past a plaza filled with cafes and toward the sleek glass facade of the newly renovated railway station on electric scooters, their dark tracksuits hanging loosely on their slight frames. At about 9am, the boys board a train for the three-hour journey north to the small coastal city of Sundsvall, tucked between the Baltic Sea and rolling forests of pine and birch.

Tadgh and his grand-aunt Mary Holt died from their injuries after the room they were in was set alight in the "callous and murderous attack" at a house in Castleview Park in Edenderry on Saturday night, December 6. The funeral mass for Tadgh from Killane Drive in Edenderry will take place tomorrow at midday in St Mary's Church in Edenderry, followed by burial in St Mary's cemetery.

A businessman who was jailed for 12 years for the importation of the State's biggest seizure of crystal meth faces having part of the proceeds from the sale of his €795,000 family home taken by the taxman, the High Court heard. Nathan McDonnell (44), who ran the long-established Ballyseedy Garden Centre in Tralee, Co Kerry, allowed his business to be used to store a machine containing more than €32m worth of the drug,

Reducing trade barriers and tackling organised crime were among the topics they discussed. Both men agreed they would speak again soon. I stressed the urgency of strengthening cooperation with the US to combat international organised crime, Lula said in a social media post following the call. President Trump stressed his full willingness to work with Brazil and that he will give full support to joint initiatives between the two countries to confront these criminal organisations.

"It's funny: the money [that] they have is all in the ether," she says. "It's never really in their hands. They're always in debt or in credit, or they're owed, or they owe money - vast amounts of it. And of course, some of it does end up in their hands, and they'll spend it like mad on items that you wouldn't think of ever buying in your lifetime.

The NCA said the enterprise benefited criminals globally, from Russian-speaking hackers with millions in cryptocurrency to British street gangs laundering physical cash. Launderers for the group operate in at least 28 UK cities and towns, with couriers collecting cash for crypto conversion. A company linked to one of the network's bosses purchased the bank now facilitating payments supporting the Russian military.

The woman is being held at Coolock Garda Station while a male suspect is also in custody in Clontarf after his arrest

As part of the operation, a truck and trailer unit travelling from the continent was searched at the port. This revealed an elaborate lead lined concealment within the fuel tank of the vehicle. The operation then discovered approximately 150kg of cocaine within the concealment with an estimated street value of €10.5m. A male in his 50's was arrested and is currently detained under Organised Crime Legislation in the South East of the country.

Police said officers had been conducting a routine surveillance operation in Sydney's Condell Park area on Tuesday when they allegedly identified the trio mobilising to carry out an offence. Officers immediately sought assistance from the tactical operations unit, PolAir, the dog squad and the state intelligence command. Just before 4pm they conducted high-risk stops of two vehicles in Revesby using less than lethal rounds and arrested the three men, aged 18, 19 and 26.

The seizure shows how organised crime groups are using ever-more sophisticated methods to evade detection. Smugglers would have known Border Force faced paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds had they damaged the combined 40 tonnes of equipment without detecting anything. Home Office minister Mike Tapp said: Vile drug smugglers thought the threat of a huge damages bill would scare Border Force off intercepting this deadly cocaine haul.

A senior detective said cracking the covert messaging platform EncroChat was pivotal in securing convictions against members of an organised crime group who planned to smuggle 48m worth of cocaine into Europe. The gang was involved in the plot to smuggle 600kg (94st 6lb) of the Class A drug on a yacht that was being used in a transatlantic sailing race. The ringleaders - Lee McClenaghan and Lea Talbot, both from Essex - admitted their involvement and were imprisoned for 30 and 23 years respectively.