Polish officials have seized two tonnes of cocaine from Colombia worth around $510 million, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday, Euronews reports. “This was the biggest amount of drugs seized in the last 30 years,” Morawiecki told a news conference, adding that the security forces have detained several suspects, including four Colombians, two Poles and one Iranian.

Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members of a crude oil tanker off Nigeria, an official with the ship’s operator said on Thursday, Reuters reports. The vessel was attacked 77 nautical miles off Bonny island on Dec. 3 and the crew were seized, the official said. The Hong Kong-flagged supertanker Nave Constellation, capable of carrying up to 2 million barrels of oil, is operated by Greek shipping company Navios Tankers Management.

Why did this happen 👮🏻‍♂️

One week after a powerful "bomb cyclone" caused travel chaos along the West Coast during the busy Thanksgiving travel period, another powerful storm is set to deliver a round of heavy rain and significant snow in time for the weekend. The National Weather Service said that an upper-level low-pressure system spinning over the eastern Pacific will cause a front to approach the West Coast by Friday, bring heavy rain and some localized flooding in parts of northern California, while heavy snow will fall across the Sierra Nevada. "We have another system that's going to move across the West Coast, and that's going to bring the potential for heavy rain and mountain snow," Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean said. The NWS's Sacramento office said in a forecast discussion the "impactful winter storm" will bring "hazardous" mountain travel starting Friday and lasting into the weekend.❄️

The director of Arizona's Department of Public Safety posted video Wednesday of himself being caught speeding at 90 mph in a 75 mph area — and being let go with a warning and no ticket. Col. Frank Milstead, who has served in his role since 2015, was stopped on Oct. 12 for speeding past a Yavapai County sheriff's deputy on Interstate 17. In the body-camera footage the director posted online, the deputy tells him he was driving more than 90 mph in the zone, where the limit is 75 mph, and "weaving through traffic" while not using his blinkers. The deputy asks for Milstead's identification, insurance and registration. Milstead and his passenger, Angela Harrolle — reportedly CEO of the 100 Club, a nonprofit group that helps families of first responders injured or killed in the line of duty — say they were driving to Flagstaff, where a memorial hike for Harrolle's late husband was scheduled to take place. #facepalm

I present to you the new wall on the southern border

French police fire tear gas at strikers challenging Macron reform. Police fired tear gas at protesters in the center of Paris on Thursday and public transport ground to a near halt in one of the biggest strikes in France for decades, aimed at forcing President Emmanuel Macron to ditch a planned reform of pensions. The strike pits Macron, a 41-year-old former investment banker who came to power in 2017 on a promise to open up France’s highly regulated economy, against powerful trade unions who say he is set on dismantling worker protections.

One French protester vs 4 cops, guy can scrap. @ProudBoysUSA

The Minnesota National Guard said a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three crew members crashed in St. Cloud. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was on a maintenance test flight from St. Cloud, Minn., when the National Guard lost contact with the aircraft, officials said in a tweet.

(WARNING 21+) The moment of the shootout anInterstate 75, near Flamingo Road where chase it came to an end. Killed at the scene were the two robbers, the abducted UPS driver and a bystander who was inside an idle car at the scene, law-enforcement sources told the Miami Herald. 🔫👮🏻‍♂️ #shooting

A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions, Reuters reports. The outcome depends on who blinks first - the unions who risk losing public support if the disruption goes on for too long, or the government which fears voters could side with the unions and blame officials for the standoff. Macron’s government, along with many ordinary French citizens, have made plans to cope with the strike action through the weekend, but may take a different view on Monday, if the disruption extends into a second week. Rail workers voted to extend their strike through Friday, while labor unions at the Paris bus and metro operator RATP said their walkout would continue until Monday. Other trade unionists were due to decide early on Friday how long they would keep up the strike.🔥

Hong Kong’s police chief has urged citizens to demonstrate peacefully ahead of what is expected to be a large-scale pro-democracy march on Sunday, an event planned amid a lull in violence in the Chinese-ruled city, reported Reuters. Police on Thursday gave a rare green light to the demonstration, organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, the group that called the million-strong marches in the summer. Sunday’s march is a key gauge of the pro-democracy movement’s support following its sweeping victory in local elections. Speaking to reporters before departing for a “courtesy visit” to Beijing, newly-installed police commissioner Chris Tang urged Hong Kongers to set a global example. #HK

A man drinks a Frucola as a policeman chases demonstrators during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Meanwhile in Argenina ... Robber vs Police