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Nicaragua's left-wing government has announced the release of dozens of prisoners following pressure from United States President Donald Trump's administration. The government of President Daniel Ortega said in a statement on Saturday that tens of people who were in the national penitentiary system have gone home to their families. list of 3 itemsend of list The statement did not specify the exact number of people freed, or whether they had been detained for political reasons.

We haven't got a good result in any World Cup. We had a good opportunity last time [at the 2024 T20 World Cup], but we couldn't do it, Shanto said. You will notice that before every World Cup, there's some incident that takes place. As a player who has played one or two of these tournaments, I can tell you that it affects us.

We emphasise once again our desire for the US contempt for our country to end, the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement late on Friday. We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

I arrived in Aleppo early on Wednesday morning after receiving reports of serious clashes between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). What I encountered was far worse than I expected. Heavy artillery shelling was constant, extreme. My team came under attack four times; one bullet hit our equipment. list of 3 itemsend of list This round of clashes, we quickly understood, would not be easily contained like earlier bouts over the past year.

has decided to initiate an exploratory diplomatic process with the United States government "aimed at reestablishing diplomatic missions in both countries."

Venezuela and the United States have taken first steps towards restoring diplomatic ties after a dramatic US military raid led to the capture and ouster of Venezuelan ex-President Nicolas Maduroand his wife Cilia Flores last week. Venezuela said on Friday that it had launched talks with the US on reestablishing relations as a team of US diplomats and a security detail visited the South American country.

It accuses the captured Venezuelan leader of running a state-sponsored drug terror network for years. Maduro, it says, collaborated with the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua, which now operates throughout Latin America, as well as with the Colombian FARC guerrilla group and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, to smuggle cocaine into the US and enrich himself personally. The indictment described Venezuela as being systematically developed into a hub for international cocaine trafficking, with state aircraft and even the presidential hangar being used to transport cocaine.

Donald Trump has presented NATO with an existential dilemma. The U.S. president has long been attacking the military organization. He has even gone so far as to question its very core, its fundamental principle: the mutual defense clause. Now, the White House's threats against Greenland, an autonomous territory that is part of Denmark a NATO member like the United States without ruling out military action, could shatter the transatlantic alliance on which Europe has relied for its security since the end of World War II.

The North Korean military tracked the drone "moving northwards" over South Korea's Ganghwa county, one of the closest territories to the North, Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) cited a spokesman for the Korean People's Army as saying. The drone was shot down inside the North Korean airspace near the city of Kaesong after flying for 8 kilometers, the spokesperson added.

In early February, Macy Castaneda Lee took a motorbike ride along the Siem Reap River out to the large green swaths of rice and lotus fields that pepper the outskirts of the Cambodian city. Miles from the city center, they stumbled across a booming industry that filled the streets, homes and riverside. "There was laundry everywhere," remembers Castaneda Lee, a Filipino photographer who was in Siem Reap for the Angkor Photo Festival and Workshop. "Visually, it was very striking."