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FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Maduro addresses the General Assembly in New York. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

A legal battle over $1bn worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England (BoE) took a fresh twist on Monday after a British appeals court ruled in favour of the government of Nicolas Maduro by overturning an earlier High Court judgement in the case. The Court of Appeal…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Venezuelan lawmakers it accused of supporting the country's leftist leader, Nicolas Maduro, and his planned legislative elections that Washington has said will likely be rigged.The Treasury in a statement accused the five blacklisted individuals of having acted as part…

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Washington: US President Donald Trump has identified India along with 20 other nations as major drug transit or illicit drug-producing countries and asserted that his administration is taking the fight to criminal organisations engaged in narcotics substances and their enablers on an unprecedented scale. In his presidential determination, Trump also…

The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has committed systematic human rights violations including killings and torture amounting to crimes against humanity, UN investigators said in a report on Wednesday. Reasonable grounds existed to believe that Maduro and his interior and defence ministers ordered or contributed to the crimes documented…

GENEVA (AP) — Independent experts for the U.N.’s top human rights body accused the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday of crimes against humanity, highlighting grisly cases of torture and killings allegedly carried out by security forces who used techniques like electric shocks, genital mutilation and asphyxiation.In a…

ADVERTISEMENTRelated topicsHuman rights and civil libertiesSocial affairsAp News AlertGovernment and politicsSocial issuesUnited NationsSeptember 16, 2020 GMTGENEVA (AP) — Experts working with U.N. human rights body say Maduro government responsible for “crimes against humanity” in Venezuela.ADVERTISEMENTRead More

By AFP     Sep 15, 2020 in World US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday he would highlight the plight of refugees from Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela on a regional trip that includes the country's border area with Brazil.Pompeo will head Friday to the Brazilian city of Boa Vista…

VENEZUELA'S President says authorities caught a U.S. Marine-turned-CIA spy with 'special weapons' meant to target the nation's oil refineries President Nicolás Maduro said the U.S. spy was caught targeting a pair of refineries on the north Caribbean coast as the country is in the grips of a deep gasoline shortage.…