President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said he has told the Philippine National Police that he was “not interested” in small-time drug pushers. Instead, he said, he has instructed them to work harder on going after big-time narcotics suppliers and distributors.

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a former leader of Colombia's once-powerful Cali cartel, died in the United States while serving a 30-year drug trafficking sentence, his family said on Wednesday.