Venezuela The Trump administration ratcheted up pressure on Nicolas Maduro's authoritarian regime in Venezuela with new sanctions on six vessels allegedly involved in illegal oil shipments, as well …

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Venezuela Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrived in Norway half a day too late to collect her Nobel Peace Prize, which was presented to her daughter yesterday instead. Some report …

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Venezuela Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado was expected to accept her award in person in Norway yesterday, but she never showed up. A Nobel official told media that Machado was "unfor …

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Gaza Former senior Shin Bet official Shalom Ben Hanan told the NYT that Hamas is "still standing" despite its two-year war with Israel. Ben Hanan cited official estimates that Hamas s …

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Coming up this week Today is the one-year anniversary of the fall of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Syrians generally seem cautiously optimistic about the direction their country is taking under rebel-cu …

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Gaza Israel announced plans to reopen Gaza's border crossing at Rafah to one-way traffic leaving the strip, (half) fulfilling a condition Israel agreed to in its October ceasefire deal with Hamas. T …

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