Venezuela

John Bolton, shown here at a White House event in 2018, was fired as national security adviser, according to a tweet by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. STARS AND STRIPES By KAREN DEYOUNG AND KIRK ROS | The Washington Post | Published: February 17, 2020 Former White…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities suspended a Portuguese airline on Monday days after it carried opposition leader Juan Guaidó and his uncle home from an international tour aimed at ousting President Nicolás Maduro.Guaidó's flight to Caracas on TAP Air Portugal ended his three-week tour through Europe and into the…

Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship lodged a formal protest against the United States on Thursday at the International Criminal Court (ICC), asking The Hague to formally investigate Washington for “crimes against humanity.” The International Criminal Court is a legal venue that can find both individuals and nations guilty under universal human rights…

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February 15 marks the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive that the New York Times called world public opinion “the second superpower.” But the U.S. ignored it and invaded Iraq anyway. So what has become of the momentous hopes of that…

JERUSALEM — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank — a first-ever international attempt to name and shame businesses that has drawn fierce…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank — a first-ever international attempt to name and shame businesses that has drawn…

JERUSALEM -- The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank — a first-ever international attempt to name and shame businesses that has drawn fierce…

“If American democracy were to collapse,” Cornell political scientist Tom Pepinsky recently wrote, “you almost certainly wouldn’t notice it.” The past week has been a testament to just how right he was. While much of the country was preoccupied with the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, something remarkable happened: Every…

UN list targets firms linked to Israeli settlements This Jan. 26, 2020, photo, shows a view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Yeriho. ODED BALILTY/AP By JOSEF FEDERMAN AND JAMEY KEATEN | Associated Press | Published: February 12, 2020 JERUSALEM — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday…