The region has long been a battleground for drug traffickers and various rebel groups vying for control

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The psychological thriller has proven a holiday box-office sensation

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A strong earthquake hit western Japan on Tuesday but there was no danger of a tsunami

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Hundreds of tuna are sold daily at the early morning auction

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Returns to “The Pitt,” the Grid and music of Kid Laroi are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you

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A 535-pound bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro

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Local residents said security forces had yet to arrive in the area, contradicting the police claim that they had deployed officers to search for those kidnapped

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A tense calm held in Venezuela on Sunday, a day after President Nicolas Maduro was deposed and captured in an American military operation.

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A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded two others, including a 4-year-old child, in Russia’s Belgorod region on Sunday, officials said, ahead of peace talks in Paris this week

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Nicolás Maduro rose from a unionized bus driver in Caracas to the presidency of Venezuela, inheriting power after the death of Hugo Chávez and consolidating it over a turbulent decade in office.

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Gambian President Adama Barrow confirmed that more than 100 survivors have been rescued from the vessel which overturned in the North Bank region

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The United States has launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife

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