BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – An Argentine who spent 448 days imprisoned in Venezuela called Friday for the international community to increase pressure on the government of interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez to release other prisoners.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market rose to more all-time highs and caught up with climbs for others around the world. The S&P 500 added 0.6%. The Nasdaq composite climbed 1.2% to reach a record of its own. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2%. Treasury yields eased in the bond market.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombian security forces Friday flooded into the southwestern municipality of Silvia following a violent territorial dispute between two Indigenous groups the day before that left at least seven people dead and more than 100 injured.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea launched a close-range ballistic missile and other weapons toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, days after the leaders of Russia and China voiced their opposition to Western pressures on North Korea.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The Brazilian head of a victims’ association for the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris said that justice has yet to be served in France’s worst aviation crash after a Paris appeals court found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter on Thursday.
CAIRO (AP) – The United Arab Emirates trained Colombian mercenaries before sending them to fight alongside a notorious paramilitary group in Sudan’s devastating war, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Its new report accuses the wealthy Gulf monarchy of financially and militarily aiding the Rapid Support Forces.
SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed two decrees on Wednesday that add to the pressure on big tech companies by increasing their liability for illegal content shared by its users and paving the way for investigations by a government body into their responses to such cases.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s government plans to release from custody this week 300 people, some of whom have been detained for years for political reasons.