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Venezuela rejects US terrorist designation as 'ridiculous lie'
AFP, Published on 24/11/2025
» CARACAS - Venezuela on Monday rejected a US terrorist designation of an alleged drug cartel as a "ridiculous lie" amid a major American military buildup in Caribbean waters.
Trump demands probe into Epstein links to Bill Clinton
AFP, Published on 15/11/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate links between the late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic president Bill Clinton.
US hits Colombia's leader with drug sanctions, sparking sharp rebuke
AFP, Published on 25/10/2025
» WASHINGTON — Washington slapped unprecedented sanctions on Colombia's leftist president, his wife, son and a top aide Friday, accusing them of enabling drug cartels -- and rocking a decades-old alliance.
Venezuela's Maduro says he wants dialogue with US
AFP, Published on 22/09/2025
» CARACAS - 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.
US raises bounty on Venezuela's Maduro to $50m
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday doubled its bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- who faces federal drug trafficking charges and whose most recent election victory was not recognised by Washington -- to $50 million.
White House restricts WSJ access to Trump over Epstein story
AFP, Published on 22/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday barred The Wall Street Journal from traveling with US President Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to Scotland, after the newspaper reported that he wrote a bawdy birthday message to his former friend, alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump administration to release some Epstein material
AFP, Published on 18/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump attempted Friday to control the storm triggered by a bombshell report on his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, ordering the Justice Department to seek the release of testimony from the prosecution of the late, alleged sex-trafficker-to-the-famous.
Twenty bodies, some headless, found in Mexican cartel bastion
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» CULIACAN, Mexico - The bodies of 20 people, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said on Monday.
‘Extermination camp’ found in Mexico
The New York Times, Published on 15/03/2025
» MEXICO CITY — A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico.
US Senate to OK vaccine critic Kennedy as health secretary
AFP, Published on 13/02/2025
» WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled US Senate was expected Thursday to approve vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr as health secretary, despite major concerns from both political parties and many in the medical and scientific communities.