MIAMI (AP) – The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019, according to a new watchdog report.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Thursday convicted and sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup stay in office after losing his reelection bid in 2022. He is the first former president found guilty of trying to overturn an election in the country with the largest economy in Latin America. Bolsonaro has always denied wrongdoing.

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel and the United States showed a unified front on Monday in the face of growing international anger over Israel’s airstrikes on Hamas leaders in Qatar and its intensifying bombardment of Gaza City. Arab and Muslim leaders met in Doha to condemn Israel’s attack last week in Qatar.