Venezuela says it has seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with an international reach in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces ... list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Former Venezuela spy chief pleads not guilty to US drug charges. list 2 of 3Venezuela using arbitrary detention as ‘tool of repression’. Amnesty ... .
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The recent coups in Africa are attempts by militaries to save their countries from presidents' “broken promises," the head of Guinea’s junta said Thursday as he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people. Col ... “The wave crossing parts of Africa does not demonstrate favor towards coups," He said.
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The European Commission has sent a letter to Poland asking for “clarifications,” amid reports that Polish officials have been involved in an alleged cash-for-visas scandal ... “These allegations are very concerning and give rise to questions regarding the compliance with EU law,” Hipper said in a Wednesday statement ... .
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's visa processing center in Canada suspended services Thursday as a rift widened between the countries after Canada's leader said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen... Canada also expelled an Indian diplomat, and India followed by expelling a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday ... It gave no further details.
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career during which he created a media empire ....
The coup-toppled president of Niger has appealed to a court of the Economic Community of West AfricanStates (ECOWAS) to free him, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown by members of his presidential guard on July 26 and has been detained at home with his wife and child since ... “The EU position is clear and unchanged ... .
Thousands of people were killed, with thousands more missing in devastating floods that hit Libya's Derna after StormDaniel, fueled by civil war, corruption, climate change and neglect ... .
Italy's prime minister on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch a "global war without mercy" against migrant smugglers, after a surge of arrivals on the island of Lampedusa... "To do so we need to work together at every level ... Meloni, who heads the post-fascist Brothers of Italy party, took office in part on pledges to crack down on migration ... .
Oklahoma is set to execute an inmate Thursday morning for the 1996 slaying of a University of Oklahoma dance student and Arkansas native, a case that went unsolved for years until DNA from the crime scene matched a man serving time for burglary. AnthonySanchez, 44, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection at 10 a.m ...Supreme Court ... .
Warsaw took offense at this ...Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the decision ... EU transit route ... "There is no market upheaval and there are perhaps internal political considerations on the part of some of our partners which, unfortunately, pushes them to have this position that nothing justifies," the minister said ... .
Beijing's latest annual income data from the National Bureau of Statistics tell a tale of two Chinas, revealing an income gap that is the widest it has been since data collection began in 1985. Two lives, briefly told, illustrate the divide ... He told VOAMandarin he pays no rent and spends less than 100 yuan a day, or about $14, on food ... .
The Authors Guild accused the California-based company of using their books 'without permission' to train ChatGPT's 'large language models,' algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit ... OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from AFP ... .
A cross-party delegation of Australian lawmakers that traveled to the United States seeking the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said they had a productive discussion in Washington with the... .