This is Beirut, 25/09 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A 6.3-magnitude quake shook northwestern Venezuela late Wednesday, following a slightly smaller tremor in the area, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 14 kilometers (8.7 miles), 27 kilometers from Mene Grande, an oil town in a sparsely populated area of the state of Zulia. The most recent earthquake ...
This is Beirut, 22/09 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected US allegations of being a drug trafficker and asked President Donald Trump for dialogue, according to a letter released Sunday by Caracas, as tensions soar between the two countries. The letter addressed to Trump is dated September 6 and was sent days after the United States deployed warships off the ...
This is Beirut, 16/09 13:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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In just two weeks, two Venezuelan vessels have been hit by US strikes in the Caribbean, ordered by Donald Trump. The ships were allegedly used to transport cocaine and fentanyl to the US. Three people were killed. Washington accuses Nicolás Maduro of leading a drug cartel and offers $50 million for his capture. In response, Caracas mobilizes ...
This is Beirut, 15/09 23:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump announced a new military strike on a boat carrying alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean on Monday, saying three "narcoterrorists" from Venezuela were killed. "This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he had deployed 25,000 troops along the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia amid soaring tensions with US President Donald Trump. In a message Sunday night on social media, Maduro said he had deployed "25,000 men and women from our glorious National Bolivarian Armed Forces" to the frontier with ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 23:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump's deadly strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela marks a significant escalation from law enforcement to military action against cartels that his administration has branded as terror groups. Video footage posted by Trump on social media Tuesday showed a multi-engine speedboat with several people aboard ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 11:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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President Donald Trump said US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs to the United States Tuesday, killing 11 "narcoterrorists" from a gang he alleged was controlled by leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Trump posted a video online of an open-topped speedboat carrying a number of people traveling on a body of water before it ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 20:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed Monday that eight US military vessels "with 1,200 missiles" were threatening his country, denouncing an "absolutely criminal, bloody threat." The United States, which accuses Maduro of leading a drug cartel, has announced a deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean in an ...
This is Beirut, 26/05 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's party on Sunday swept the board in parliamentary and regional elections that were boycotted by the opposition in protest over his disputed re-election last year. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 23 out of 24 state governor positions and scored 82.68 percent of the votes cast for lists of National ...
This is Beirut, 27/03 05:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump's homeland security chief on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have been deported under contested legal grounds. Standing in front of a cell of inmates who were stripped to the waist, revealing their tattooed torsos, Kristi Noem recorded a message telling others ...
This is Beirut, 17/03 05:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them. The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-20 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United States said Tuesday it recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela -- the first time it called him that -- four months after a disputed election in which incumbent Nicolas Maduro claimed victory amid accusations of fraud. The statement from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken prompted a ...