CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close political ally of Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, has been placed under house arrest, his family said on Tuesday, two days after he was released from prison.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks wobbled after feeling both the upside and downside of a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. job market. After initially rising toward its all-time high on Wednesday, the S&P 500 flipped between gains and losses before finishing with a miniscule drop of less than 0.1%. The Dow Jones slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado, after lengthy politically motivated detentions.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – When Tarique Rahman, the son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh, returned to the country in December after 17 years of self-imposed exile, he declared to his supporters: “I have a plan.” Rahman returned at a time of upheaval. Bangladesh was seemingly adrift under an interim administration as it inched closer to a nationwide poll.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday said one of her closest allies was kidnapped hours after being released from prison.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the objections of GOP leadership.
ALTO ILA, Ecuador (AP) – On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was being trailed. Fresh puma tracks now lined the path alongside his own footprints. Unfazed, he continued his trek, focused entirely on the precious cargo he carried – seeds from some of the world’s most endangered plant species.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military said Thursday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat “was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”