"Britain's foreign secretary has downplayed reports that the UK had stopped sharing intelligence with the US that could be used by the Americans to conduct deadly attacks against alleged narco-traffickers in the Caribbean. Yvette Cooper, speaking on a ministerial trip to Naples, said longstanding intelligence and law enforcement frameworks that existed between the countries were continuing as the US deployed a carrier strike group to the region."
"the UK had halted a line of intelligence sharing amid concerns it believed the US bombing campaign was not legal under international law. Marco Rubio described the reports, first made by CNN, as a false story, it's a fake story. The US secretary of state suggested the story may have been spread by somebody with a business card that has a government email on it and argued that the reporting was both inaccurate and misleading."
Yvette Cooper said longstanding intelligence and law enforcement frameworks between the UK and US were continuing as the US deployed a carrier strike group to the Caribbean. The UK initially neither confirmed nor denied reports that it had halted intelligence sharing amid concerns US bombing might breach international law. Marco Rubio and the US secretary of state dismissed the reports as false and misleading. Britain monitors vessel movements around its Caribbean territories and has swapped intelligence with the US under longstanding arrangements. The US says its military killed 82 people in 21 attacks since September and links traffickers to Venezuela and the regime of Nicolas Maduro.
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