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Venezuela: UN independent investigators call for immediate release of all political prisoners
More than 100 political prisoners have been released in Venezuela, the Government announced on Monday, just over a week after…
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Maduro seized, norms tested: Security Council divided as Venezuela crisis deepens
The UN Security Council met on Monday against a sharply altered diplomatic backdrop, following US strikes on the Venezuelan capital…
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Venezuela crisis: UN aid effort continues amid political upheaval
Venezuela’s political shock has sharpened global attention on a country already facing one of the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement…
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UN chief deeply concerned over ‘possible intensification of instability’ in Venezuela
Invoking the bedrock principle prohibiting the use of force against the territory and independence of any State, the UN Secretary-General…
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Security Council LIVE: ‘The power of the law must prevail’ amid Venezuela crisis, says Guterres
The Security Council met in emergency session in New York to address the US rendition of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro…
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‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school
A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has…
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US actions in Venezuela ‘constitute a dangerous precedent’: Guterres
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is “deeply alarmed” over the standoff between the United States and Venezuela…
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UN Security Council hears warnings over escalating US-Venezuela standoff
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela have sharply escalated amid increased US military operations in the Southern Caribbean, prompting…
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Venezuela’s National Guard linked to killings, torture and repression, UN probe finds
Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence…
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Record cocaine seizure in Haitian waters underlines country’s ‘pivotal’ trafficking role
A record seizure of cocaine off the coast of Haiti has underlined the island nation’s “pivotal role in trafficking routes…
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