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Venezuela severs relations with Paraguay over support for opposition leader

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Venezuela severs relations with Paraguay over support for opposition leader BOGOTA, Colombia Venezuela announced Monday that it was severing diplomatic relations with Paraguay after President Santiago Pena expressed his support for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. The Venezuelan government also recalled its diplomatic personnel from Paraguay. “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided, in […]

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US Ambassador to Mexico insists country produces fentanyl

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US Ambassador to Mexico insists country produces fentanyl MEXICO CITY Outgoing US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar held a final press conference Monday, where he asserted that fentanyl is produced in the country, contradicting the Mexican government. In his farewell address, Salazar rebuffed the Mexican government’s claim that Mexico does not produce the deadly

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Shooting at Honduran Consulate near Atlanta leaves 1 dead

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Shooting at Honduran Consulate near Atlanta leaves 1 dead WASHINGTON A shooting Monday outside the Consulate General of Honduras near Atlanta, Georgia left one person dead, said Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina. “We regret the tragedy,” Reina told reporters, adding the victim was the security guard, who is a Mexican national. One person was

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Three feared dead as India deploys divers, helicopters to rescue trapped miners

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Three feared dead as India deploys divers, helicopters to rescue trapped miners Rescue teams have worked through the night trying to reach at total of nine men trapped in a flooded coal mine in a remote part of India’s Assam state, though three of the miners are feared dead, authorities say. Rescuers at the

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Delegation of Japan’s ruling coalition to visit China

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Delegation of Japan’s ruling coalition to visit China BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — A delegation of Japan’s ruling coalition will visit China from Jan. 13 to 15, said a spokesperson for the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Tuesday. The two sides will jointly hold the ninth meeting of

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Israel’s overnight strikes kill at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza

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Israel’s overnight strikes kill at least 10 Palestinians in Gaza Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Israeli forces have intensified their assault on Gaza, with mounting casualties, the majority being women and children. Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that two people were killed and several others injured when Israeli air strikes targeted the Al-Ubaid family home near the Ain

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Indonesia welcomes entry into BRICS bloc

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Indonesia welcomes entry into BRICS bloc Indonesia welcomed on Tuesday Brazil’s announcement that it had become a full member of BRICS, a bloc of developing economies increasingly seen as a counterweight to the West. The Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that Southeast Asia’s most populous country “shares with the other

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More than 50 killed as powerful earthquake hits China’s Tibet

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More than 50 killed as powerful earthquake hits China’s Tibet At least 53 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake hit China’s remote Tibet region on Tuesday morning. “Fifty-three people have been confirmed dead, and 62 others injured as of Tuesday noon, after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Dingri County in the city of Xigaze

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Russia, Belarus make first cross-border digital financial asset transactions

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Russia, Belarus make first cross-border digital financial asset transactions Russia and Belarus have conducted their first cross-border transactions using digital financial assets (DFAs) in an effort to avoid the increasingly effective US financial sanctions. Russia was facing growing problems settling international trade deals in 2024 as the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) threatened individual

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Hundreds from Ukraine’s elite foreign-trained brigade go AWOL as desertions mount

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Hundreds from Ukraine’s elite foreign-trained brigade go AWOL as desertions mount One of Ukraine’s flagship military units, the 155th Mechanised Brigade, trained in France and equipped with some of the best Western weaponry, has lost over 1,700 soldiers, who have abandoned their posts and gone AWOL, without firing a single shot, it was reported on

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