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During my six years as foreign minister, I learned diplomatic prudence, and then, in these years as president, with the experience of being foreign minister and having been mentored by our Commander Chavez, I value prudence, Maduro said, referring to the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, under whom he was foreign minister. I don't like diplomacy with microphones; when there are important matters, they must be handled quietly until they are resolved!

With 80.29 percent of ballots tallied on Wednesday, the centrist Liberal Party's Nasralla held 40.23 percent while the National Party's Asfura had 39.69 percent, according to the country's National Electoral Council (CNE). list of 4 itemsend of list Nasrallah's lead over Asfura was less than 14,000 votes. Rixi Moncada of the ruling leftist LIBRE Party was well behind in third place with 19.01 percent.

The path ahead for Ukraine peace talks is unclear, Donald Trump has said, after what he called reasonably good talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US envoys which nonetheless failed to achieve a breakthrough After their hours-long meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, were set to meet top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov in Florida on Thursday.

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The silence of a narrow alley in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir, is broken by the rehearsed beckoning of street vendors and the restless cries of two little children. Auntie, please take me to my mother; the police took her away, shouts three-year-old Hussein, as he and his sister Noorie, a year younger than him, cling to the window of their one-room house, their faces pressed against rusted iron bars.

There are literally two British nationals on their own, no food, water, fuel, no way in or out. This is getting worse. The weather's going to change again in a couple of days. You know, there has to be a plan I said: This could be lives lost if you don't take some sort of action, genuinely.' But they just said: No, there's no plan.'

For hours, millions of residents remained in the dark as the government worked to restore power to an area that spans from the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio to Mayabeque, just east of Havana. Throughout the morning, officials sought to reassure the public that electricity would soon be restored. Following the power outage in western Cuba, the workers at [the Ministry of Energy and Mines] immediately began restoration efforts, which are already under way,

By confronting the damage left by the previous administration, the interim government has set the economy on a path of stabilisation, not collapse. The recent wave of pessimism surrounding Bangladesh's economy under its interim administration, much of it amplified by selectively framed local commentary, offers an incomplete and often misleading portrait of the country's actual economic trajectory. Much of this concern is overstated, as the headline indicators reflect a necessary structural correction rather than an economic collapse.

Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. According to the World Health Organization, at least 16,500 sick and wounded people need to leave Gaza for medical care. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Since the ceasefire began, at least 347 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and 889 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Microsoft provides "major services" to other Israeli ground, air, and naval forces despite widespread agreement among experts that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the legal aid groups. The letter lists multiple examples, including Mamram, the Israeli military's central computing system and "weapons platform" that assisted the assault on Gaza with AI support and cloud services. Microsoft provided "rapid support" to Mamram during the initial months of the genocide to keep systems from crashing, according to the letter.

The family of a Colombian fisherman killed in a US airstrike in the Caribbean has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US administration of conducting an extrajudicial killing in breach of international law, according to US and British media outlets. It is the first legal challenge brought against airstrikes mandated by the Trump administration off the coasts of Central and South America, in which at least 83 people have died. Washington says its actions aim

Trump told reporters in the White House Oval Office on Wednesday that Witkoff and Kushner had "a reasonably good" meeting with Putin, but later said the discussions were "very good". Their impression was that Putin would "like to see the war ended ... their impression was very strongly that he wants to make a deal," Trump said, but stressed he didn't know if a deal was possible.

A proposed Kanye West concert in São Paulo, Brasil, where the rapper reportedly faced the threat of arrest if he espoused Nazism, was ultimately canceled after local authorities voted against permitting the event. According to CNN Brasil, the event was set to take place on November 29th at the Interlagos Racetrack in São Paulo. However, the São Paulo City Hall derailed those plans when it vetoed West's use of the venue, citing his past promotion of Nazism and hate speech.

"All of global data exchange flows through these cables," said Johannes Peters, the head of the Center for Maritime Strategy and Security at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. "The internet, payment orders, any kind of information you can think of, any kind of spoken communication, it runs almost exclusively through these cables," Peters told DW. "On a global level, we are dependent on them."