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Exclusive: Ex-Venezuelan general charged with drug trafficking surrenders to DEA Maduro

Exclusive: Ex-Venezuelan general charged with drug trafficking surrenders to DEA

CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents on Friday remanded in custody retired Venezuelan general Cliver Alcala, three people familiar with the matter said, after he agreed to work with prosecutors who charged him, President Nicolas Maduro and other top officials with drug trafficking. Alcala surrendered to DEA agents…
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March 27, 2020
Trump Forces GM, Which Was Already Going To Produce Ventilators, To Produce Ventilators Korean War

Trump Forces GM, Which Was Already Going To Produce Ventilators, To Produce Ventilators

Trump with GM CEO Mary BarraPhoto: APThis week’s drama over whether GM would produce ventilators to help fight the coronavirus pandemic came to a fittingly bizarre conclusion today, with GM saying it was working “around the clock” to make the ventilators and—a few hours after that—President Trump invoking the Defense…
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March 27, 2020
Europe Wasn’t Ready for Coronavirus — It May Never Fully Recover Old-Age Poverty

Europe Wasn’t Ready for Coronavirus — It May Never Fully Recover

On November 28th, 2019, the European Union officially and solemnly declared the “climate emergency,” in a ceremony presided over by the would-be 17-year-old prophet Greta Thunberg. Today, almost four months later, in the midst of a real emergency, the only thing that remains official and solemn in that declaration is…
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March 27, 2020
WATCH thousands of Ukrainians swarm border to get back home ahead of coronavirus lockdown Volodymyr Zelensky

WATCH thousands of Ukrainians swarm border to get back home ahead of coronavirus lockdown

With Ukraine’s borders scheduled to slam shut to cope with the Covid-19 contagion, thousands of Ukrainians who had been working in Europe risked infection by crowding at crossings to get back into the country. Endless lines of mostly men, many wearing face masks but some without, waited for hours at…
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March 27, 2020
Exclusive: Iranian diplomats instigated killing of dissident in Istanbul, Turkish officials say Tayyip Erdogan

Exclusive: Iranian diplomats instigated killing of dissident in Istanbul, Turkish officials say

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two intelligence officers at Iran’s consulate in Turkey instigated the killing last November of an Iranian dissident in Istanbul who criticized the Islamic Republic’s political and military leaders, two senior Turkish officials told Reuters. The accusation is likely to strain ties between Turkey and Iran, two regional…
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March 27, 2020