Darryl Coote
darrylcoote.bsky.social
Darryl Coote
@darrylcoote.bsky.social
Jeju Island-based reporter for UPI
UPDATE to Ryan Wedding investigation

#RCMP arrest associate of Wedding.

Wonder if this widening dragnet will result in Wedding's capture. There is so much to his story that I want to know.

#police #news #Olympics
Canadian man arrested in hunt for ex-Olympian-turned-drug kingpin - UPI.com
Authorities in Canada have arrested an associate of a former Olympian snowboarder accused by the United States of being a drug kingpin on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The war in Sudan does not get enough attention. It's an awful atrocity that deserves everyone's attention.

We don't even have a precise death toll, yet there are accusations of genocide. Awful.

#sudan #war #EU #africa #sanctions #News
EU sanctions second in command of Sudan's RSF - UPI.com
The European Union has sanctioned the deputy leader of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces as the paramilitary group's bloody civil war against the country's military nears three years old.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It's wild that the president calls former military Democratic members of Congress traitors and for them to be jailed over speech and nothing will come of it.

#news #trump #military
Trump calls ex-military Dems 'traitors' over unlawful-orders video - UPI.com
President Donald Trump on Thursday called a handful of ex-military Democratic lawmakers "traitors" who should be jailed over a video they published online.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Florida on Thursday executed its record-setting 17th inmate of the year, and seventh military veteran.

A lot of death row inmates and those executed are former military.
Florida executes 17th death row inmate this year for 1988 murder - UPI.com
Florida on Thursday executed a death row inmate convicted of rape and murder of a convenience store clerk in 1998, a record 17th execution in the Sunshine State and the 7th military veteran it has kil...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Feels sort of like a prize fight.

The highly anticipated first bout between Mamdani, the democratic socialist, and Trump, the authoritarian-coded U.S. president.
Trump, Mamdani to meet Friday at White House - UPI.com
President Donald Trump announced he will meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The United States is strengthening its manhunt for an Ex-Canadian Olympian accused of being a modern day Pablo Escobar.
#news #drugs #crime
U.S. ups pressure on ex-Canadian Olympian-turned-accused drug kingpin - UPI.com
The United States on Wednesday intensified its manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian who U.S. law enforcement accuses of being a drug kingpin on the scale of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzm...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
"Without the U.S., Canada doesn't have a country," U.S. President Donald Trump said as he signed a proclamation making Feb. 9, 2025, the first-ever Gulf of America Day.
February 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has presented U.S. President Donald Trump a trophy displaying a golden pager, seemingly in reference to the pagers and walkie-talkies that detonated in Lebanon in September, killing at least 37 people and injuring hundreds more.

This is repulsive.
February 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Texas has executed Steven Nelson.
Below is a copy of his final statement, sent to me by the Texas Department of Corrections.
#deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #exectuion #StevenNelson
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is only the second time in seven decades that the remains of a victim of the Jeju Massacre who was killed on the mainland has returned home.

At the #Jeju 4.3 Peace Park there is a cemetery marking the thousands of people who went missing and are presumed to have died during the massacre.
Remains of Jeju Massacre victim killed on mainland Korea return home - UPI.com
The remains of a man who was arrested and sent to a mainland South Korean prison, where he died some seven decades ago amid the government's bloody crackdown on a communist revolt, have finally been r...
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December 18, 2024 at 5:59 AM
About 1,000 people were at Friday night’s march in Jeju City.

Last time Jeju, an island of fewer than 700,000 people, had protests that attracted more than 500 people were those demanding President Park Geun-hye step down in 2016.

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South Koreans on resort island Jeju march in call for President Yoon's resignation - UPI.com
Hundreds of South Koreans on Jeju Island converged on City Hall on Friday night to demand that embattled South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol resign and be arrested over his failed attempt to institut...
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December 6, 2024 at 11:28 PM
A woman protests against President Yoon Suk-yeol in Jeju City, Jeju Island, South Korea, on Friday night.
December 6, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Christopher Collings was executed by the State Missouri on Dec. 3, and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. local time.

Here is his final statement.
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 AM