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Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is making his first appearance in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York. Maduro, wearing a blue jail uniform, and his wife were led into court at around noon for a brief, but required, legal proceeding […]

US vice president JD Vance on ‍Monday said “a crazy person” had tried to break ‍into his Ohio home by hammering on the windows, noting he and his ‌family were not there at the time. CNN, ⁠citing an unnamed US law ‌enforcement ​source, reported ‍earlier that officials were probing an incident at the home and […]

Swiss police says they have identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a new year’s celebration in a crowded bar. They put the total at 116, with more than two-thirds still in hospitals. Authorities had previously given a figure of 119 injured, on top of the 40 people killed. […]

A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron. All defendants were handed a variety of sentences, ranging from cyberbullying awareness training to eight-month suspended prison terms. The French court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged criminality […]

A tense calm held in Venezuela on Sunday, one day after president Nicolas Maduro was deposed and captured in an American military operation. Venezuela’s capital Caracas was unusually quiet, with few vehicles moving around. Convenience shops, fuel stations and other businesses were mostly closed. A day before, queues wound through shops and outside petrol stations […]

Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 were among those who died in the New Year’s Eve bar fire that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope offered his sympathies to the victims and their families. Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who died in […]

The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Saturday on Fox News, adding: “We’ll be involved in it very much.” “We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off,” Mr Trump said in the interview with Fox News […]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured by US forces on Saturday, according to President Donald Trump. Trump, whose government has accused Maduro of running drug cartels and other crimes, had been pressuring the strongman to leave office for months. So, what do you need to know about Nicolas Maduro? Maduro was born into a working-class […]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was captured by US forces on Saturday, according to President Donald Trump. Trump, whose government has accused Maduro of running drug cartels and other crimes, had been pressuring the strongman to leave office for months. So, what do you need to know about Nicolas Maduro? Maduro was born into a working-class […]