Venezuela

U.S. police have evicted a small group of demonstrators from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, after a weeks-long protest by the group against U.S. policy toward the South American country. Law enforcement officials raided the building Thursday and arres…

The dissonance of a Venezuelan diplomatic compound being occupied by a group of predominantly white, American, anti-interventionist activists had been a source of resentment among the predominantly Venezuelan protesters who had surrounded the embassy, forming…

Thursday morning, US police stormed the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC, and arrested the four remaining activists defending the facility from the opposition forces outside. However, an activist and member of the Embassy Protection Collective told Sputni…

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On Wednesday, anti-war activists supporting the Embassy Protection Collective in Washington, DC, finally got supplies to those holed up inside with the help of legendary civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, of course.Since April 30, a group of anti-war act…

The Rev. Jesse Jackson walked past a line of uniformed police officers Wednesday outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington to deliver food and water to four activists living inside, part of a new effort to bring supplies to the protesters each day. As he …

Headlines for May 15, 2019

Students should be refunded at least 50 per cent of their tuition fees for lost teaching time by universities that failed to minimise the disruption caused by last years lecturer strikes, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator has said.  The independent b…

Mike Pompeo to meet with Vladimir Putin in Sochi Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet Russian President Vladimir on Tuesday at the Kremlin's summer home in Sochi. The meeting coincides with rising tensions in hot button areas around the globe that R…

US law enforcement on Monday started the process of trying to remove protesters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, a State Department official said. The move to evict the protesters from the embassy came after a group of US anti-war activists began m…