Trump gave Maduro ultimatum to flee Venezuela as land operations loom: report



Trump remained tight-lipped on details of call with Venezuelan president as tensions rise between countries
Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but he did not provide details on what the two leaders discussed.
“I don’t want to comment on it. The answer is yes,” the US president said when asked if he had spoken with Maduro. He was speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One.
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US president favours Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura of rightwing National party, as polls show three candidates are neck-and-neck
Hondurans have begun voting in an election held amid threats by Donald Trump to cut aid to the country if his preferred candidate loses.
Honduras could be the next country in Latin America, after Argentina and Bolivia, to swing right after years of leftwing rule.
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Request is submitted weeks after Donald Trump called on Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”.
Isaac Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the 111-page submission from the prime minister’s lawyer, and said it had been passed on to the pardons department in the ministry of justice. The president’s legal adviser would also formulate an opinion before Herzog made a decision, it added.
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For a man who insists football isn’t political, the Fifa boss is putting a lot of effort into into courting the most divisive politician on Earth
Gianni Infantino was 18 years old the first time he ran for office. It was a presidential election at FC Brig-Glis, the local amateur football club in the small Swiss town where he grew up. Running against two older men, and with no discernible footballing record of his own, the little red-haired kid with freckles was, unsurprisingly, the rank outsider in the race.
But he had a vision. He had a ferocious work ethic, boundless enthusiasm, well-established networks in the town’s Italian immigrant community. And even at this tender age, he had a flair for an eye-catching scheme. To the shock of many veterans at the club, Infantino surged to victory: partly on the back of his pledge to attract new sponsors and revenue streams, and partly on something more tangible. Infantino promised that if he won, his mother Maria would wash all the players’ kits, every week, for as long as he was president.
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