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Uruguay withdraws from OAS meeting over Venezuela opposition delegation

KIEV, UkraineAndriy Oprysko always dreamed of becoming a sailor. As a 17-year-old in the last days of the Soviet Union, he wanted to join the navy, but his mother forbade it as too dangerous. Years later, at 45, with his own children grown up, he decided it w…

Venezuela’s President Maduro said the country’s security forces had prevented an attempt on his life planned by the opposition and supported by the United States, Colombia, and Chile, the BBC reports, adding that the plot envisaged replacing the incumbent pre…

President Donald Trump heads to the G20 summit in Osaka in an enviable position, although amid much controversy over trade and Iran. The reality of his strength and Americas is a world apart from the first G20 summit eleven years ago in Washington, which occu…

The Internet is one of the few places where information can spread freely, which might explain why authoritarian governments are blocking it more often. We look at some of the countries that have suffered Internet blackouts this year. It is still impossible …

Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress The chair of the House Judiciary Committee said Mueller has agreed to appear before two congressional committees after a subpoena was issued Tuesday evening. This is a surprise an…

22 June 2019 - Speaking at the end of the first-ever official mission to Venezuela by a UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet called on the Government to release all those detained for peacefully protesting and announced that a team from her office would r…

The High Commissioner for Human Rights arrived in the beleagured South American nation on Wednesday at the invitation of the Government of Nicolas Maduro, having expressed deep concern in an address to the Human Rights Council in March, over the countrys dram…

Before Darwin discovered the science of evolution, species were said to have burst out from nothingness, through a natural magic called spontaneous generation. Americans often look at world crises the same way. We think of their origin the way Topsy thought o…

(Roman Genn) By the time hes done, Joe Biden will have disowned Amtrak. Iran blew up a couple of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important commercial thoroughfares in the world. Theres been skepticism on the left and in Europe over the int…