CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – The head of U.S. military operations in Latin America met with Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, and members of her cabinet during an hourslong visit Wednesday to the South American country’s capital.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks slumped Monday after President Donald Trump ramped up his newest tariffs, while investors continued to punish companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence revolution. The S&P 500 fell 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 821 points, or 1.7%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.1%.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday is set to resume debating a measure outlining the eligibility and exclusions for hundreds of people to be granted amnesty and be released after months or years of being in custody for political reasons.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A wide-ranging federal inquiry began on Tuesday into a rise in antisemitism across Australia before two gunmen believed to be inspired by the Islamic State group allegedly killed 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival in December.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Argentina’s largest labor unions called a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday to protest President Javier Milei’s flagship overhaul of the country’s labor law, intensifying a standoff between the libertarian leader and long-powerful unions as the bill faces an uncertain passage through Congress.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Eight years after the “Sandpapergate” scandal rocked test cricket, Australia will return to South Africa to play three test matches preceded by three one-day internationals in September and October. It will be Australia’s first test series in South Africa since the Cape Town ball-tampering scandal in 2018.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivia’s long-serving socialist former leader, Evo Morales, reappeared Thursday in his political stronghold of the tropics after almost seven weeks of unexplained absence, endorsing candidates for upcoming regional elections and quieting rumors he had fled the country in the wake of the U.S. seizure of his ally, Venezuela’s ex-President Nicolás Maduro.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) – Peru’s Congress on Wednesday will choose the country’s eight president in a decade to replace the newly ousted former leader José Jerí, with four lawmakers largely unknown by the public in the running.
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