We know that Trump bombed a factory in Maracaibo. We fear that they mix coca paste there to make cocaine and take advantage of its location on the Maracaibo Sea, Petro said via X. He added that those responsible for producing cocaine in the area are the ELN guerrilla group, with whom his government tried to negotiate a peace agreement, but those talks are now frozen.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah came to global attention because he was a leading figure in the 2011 pro-democracy revolution that turned Cairo's Tahrir Square into a surging sea of young people. The demonstrators chanted Down with corruption, Down with autocracy and Down with dictators. When the uprising succeeded in toppling Egypt's dictator Hosni Mubarak, the world rejoiced, including Europe and North America. Abd el-Fattah was all over the media, a voice for the part of the movement that was committed to building an accountable, participatory democracy
So far, there has been no official reaction from the Chavista regime to the announcement made by Donald Trump regarding the attack that U.S. forces allegedly carried out on Venezuelan soil against previously identified drug trafficking targets presumably linked to the Tren de Aragua criminal organization. The operation, carried out with drones earlier this month, is the first military aggression by a United States government against Venezuela in its entire history.
Chief executive Eddie Yue introduced them in late 2024 in a letter [PDF] that stated they're needed due to "the surge in fraud and scam cases in recent years with customer losses typically involving payments from customers' bank accounts." Yue observed that scammers sometimes establish internet banking accounts without customers' permission. The Monetary Authority therefore required all local banks to establish Money Safe accounts that allow customers to set aside funds which they can only access by visiting a brick-and-mortar bank.
Two trains have collided on the rail line serving Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu, killing at least one person and injuring dozens. Rail agency Ferrocarril Transandino said a train operated by PeruRail collided with another locomotive belonging to Inca Rail around lunchtime on the single track that links the town of Ollantaytambo with Machu Picchu.
Two trains taking tourists to and from Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring about 30 passengers. The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told the Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the rail line connecting Machu Picchu with the nearby city of Cuzco after the accident.
A UNICEF nutrition survey released this week found that 53 percent of children under 5 in North Darfur's Umm Baru locality are acutely malnourished. Further, one in six children under 5 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, "a life-threatening condition that can kill a child in weeks if left untreated," the group noted. It is one of the worst levels of hunger ever recorded in a UN emergency hunger assessment, at more than three times the World Health Organization's emergency threshold of 15 percent.
The United States military says it has killed or captured about 25 ISIL (ISIS) fighters in a wave of attacks over nine days in Syria. US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees the US military's Middle East operations, issued a statement on Tuesday marking the conclusion of the operations this month. The campaign followed the killing of two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter by an ISIL gunman in Syria on December 13 and widescale US strikes against the group six days later.
Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and CARE, from operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to comply with new registration rules. Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations. But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population desperately in need of humanitarian aid.
