Today’s news briefs include Venezuelan dictator changing date of Christmas; UK grapples with high-rise fire that killed 72; North Korea executes up to 30 officials over flooding. Report released on high-rise fire ...
Read More »Today’s News Briefs: Alex Trebek; Nicaragua troops in Venezuela? Fugitive pastor
Today’s news briefs include a fugitive pastor evades 2000 police; Alex Trebek honored on postage stamp; Germany deports convicted migrants. Fugitive pastor evades 2,000 police in Philippines Police in the Philippines say ...
Read More »News Briefs: Israel & Hezbollah; Measles cases; Venezuela elections; changes to SCOTUS
Today’s News Briefs include Measles on rise in U.S.; Israel prepares response to Hezbollah after rocket attack kills 12 children on soccer field; SCOTUS changes proposed; Venezuelans protest election result. Israel to ...
Read More »Venezuelan warship sinks after firing upon and ramming cruiseliner
Venezuela has suffered a tough loss of one of its few remaining warships. Media reports say a Venezuelan warship sank after it fired upon and repeatedly rammed a German cruiseliner. Only problem ...
Read More »‘Get out’ Trump tells Russia over Venezuela
With his country in chaos, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro refuses to hand over power to democratically selected opposition leader Juan Guaidó. And now there’s a new complication: Russia is meddling by inserting ...
Read More »Bernie Sanders wants Venezuelan marxist leader to stay in office
Socialist 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) finds himself on the opposite side of just about every democracy in the world. Sanders is refusing to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim ...
Read More »US-Venezuela showdown: Trump recognizes new leader in effort to oust ‘illegitimate’ dictator Maduro
The Trump administration is refusing to pull US diplomats out of Venezuela after the country’s dictator, President Nicolas Maduro, warned the US to remove them within 72 hours. Maduro told them to ...
Read More »Latin American nations impose sanctions on Venezuela
BOGOTA, Colombia—Thirteen countries from across the Americas have slammed Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and introduced new economic and political sanctions in an effort to asphyxiate his regime. The measures were agreed as ...
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