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  • Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered Closed

    President Trump on Saturday said that the airspace surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed, ratcheting up tensions with the Maduro regime and offering yet another sign that he is considering striking targets on land. 

    “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump posted on Saturday morning. 

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  • Trump to Pardon Honduran Ex-President Serving 45-Year Drug Sentence

    Planned pardon of Hernández, convicted for cocaine trafficking, comes before the country’s election.

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  • Opinion | Ukraine Corruption and U.S. Interests

    Another corruption scandal is roiling Ukraine, and there’s no denying corruption exists there as it does in most of the former Soviet states. The question is whether this should override U.S. strategic interests in supporting Ukraine, especially if there are reasonable safeguards against the theft of U.S. assistance.

    President Volodymr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned Friday after corruption authorities conducted a search at his home.. He said in a Telegram post he is cooperating with investigators, but his resignation comes as the Kremlin and Trump Administration are raising the pressure on Ukraine to cede territory to Russia. Mr. Yermak has been Ukraine’s toughest negotiator in peace talks, holding out against bad ideas.

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  • Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns as Corruption Probe Deepens

    The departure of Ukraine’s top negotiator—the president’s right-hand man Andriy Yermak—comes at a pivotal moment for the country.

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  • ‘Deliver or Die’: Inside the Drug-Boat Crews Ferrying Cocaine to the U.S.

    CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix of bravado, skill and dreams of a massive payday.

    Now, designated as terrorists by the Trump administration, they face not only the perils of a capricious sea but the new danger of getting blown out of the water by the U.S. military. The trade’s unofficial motto—“deliver or die”—has never rung so true.

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  • Exclusive | Witness Photos Captured Attack on the National Guard

    It was a pre-Thanksgiving afternoon that few Americans could have imagined: U.S. troops defending themselves in a gunfight in the streets of the American capital.

    A witness took photos of the ambush of the two National Guard troops that shows the suspect—an Afghan refugee with whom the Central Intelligence Agency had once worked—with a revolver in hand, U.S. National Guardsmen shooting back and fallen Guard members on the ground.

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  • Exclusive | Iranian Funds for Hezbollah Are Flowing Through Dubai

    Iran has sent the Lebanese militia Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year via money exchanges and other businesses in Dubai, as Tehran seeks new ways to funnel money to its ally, people familiar with the matter said.

    Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is in desperate need of funds to rebuild and rearm its militia and pay other costs stemming from its bruising fight with Israel last year, the people said. Its smuggling routes through Syria were disrupted by the fall of the Iran-aligned Assad regime a year ago, and Lebanese authorities have made strides cracking down on couriers bringing suitcases of cash through the Beirut airport.

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  • Three Arrested in Hong Kong Housing Fire That Killed At Least 36

    Police in Hong Kong said three people have been arrested in connection with a fire that engulfed a housing complex and killed at least 36 people. 

    The three men were arrested for alleged manslaughter, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong Police Force said. 

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  • The Reason Venezuela’s Maduro Won’t Resign Peacefully

    Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is facing unprecedented American military and diplomatic pressure to resign and leave his country peacefully. He is unlikely to take the offer.

    The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains. The 63-year-old strongman doesn’t believe he will get lasting amnesty, analysts said, feeling only safe among the cadre of loyal military men with whom he has spent a decade surrounding himself.

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  • Opinion | Trump Takes On the Muslim Brotherhood

    Sanctions can strike the often-radical Islamist network a piece at a time.

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  • France Detains Last Suspected Louvre Thief

    PARIS—French authorities said they’ve detained four more people in connection to the Louvre heist, including a man suspected of being the only thief to remain at large after purloining the nation’s crown jewels.

    Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said two men, ages 38 and 39, and two women, 31 and 40, have been taken into custody for questioning. Beccuau said all four detainees came from the Paris region, without disclosing further details.

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  • Colombia Orders Probe Into Ties Between Military and Drug Traffickers

    The Colombian military said Monday it had opened an investigation into allegations that senior army and intelligence officials advised the leader of an armed drug-trafficking group about how to secretly buy weapons and evade military scrutiny.

    The revelations, reported by the major Colombian media outlet, Caracol, have stoked fears that former guerrilla fighters who now smuggle cocaine have infiltrated high levels of the security forces under President Gustavo Petro, a former member of a leftist guerrilla organization. Petro has feuded with President Trump over U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and overseen fraying relations with the U.S. over soaring drug-crop cultivation and cocaine trafficking.

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  • School Kidnappings Have Become a Cruel Fact of Life in Nigeria

    The mass kidnapping of children in Nigeria caught the world’s attention over a decade ago when 276 high-school students were abducted from Chibok, sparking the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media. The phenomenon returned to the limelight this month with another mass abduction and President Trump’s threats to intervene over what he said was the persecution of Christians in one of Africa’s most strategic nations.

    The reality is, the kidnappings never really abated.

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  • ISIS Prisons and Camps Are Festering in a Fragile Syria as Aid Peters Out

    HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along a corridor lined with cells. A prisoner pressed his face to a small, square hole in one of the cell doors. Behind him, some 20 other prisoners in brown jumpsuits sat barefoot on the floor.

    “Is Biden still the U.S. president?” he asked a visiting journalist. The prisoner, a British Islamic State member, didn’t get an answer.

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  • Opinion | Another Week in the Wild West Bank

    Adding up Palestinian terrorism and Israeli settler violence.

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  • Opinion | Israel Proves the Danger of an ‘Independent’ Justice System

    The Supreme Court could be enabling a criminal conspiracy to prosecute IDF reservists unjustly.

    Avi Bell

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  • Militants Abduct 300 Children From Catholic School in Nigeria

    Gunmen stormed a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 300 students and teachers at a time when President Trump is threatening military action to protect Christians in the West African nation.

    The attackers hit St. Mary’s Catholic School in central Niger State in the early hours Friday, spraying bullets into the air before rousting students from their dormitories and forcing them into the forest at gunpoint, police said.

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  • Trump’s Tariffs Hand Lula a Political Gift in Brazil

    The Brazilian president is in a stronger position to win in elections next year following his defiant stance on President Trump’s tariffs.

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  • Latest Push for Peace Is Zelensky’s Toughest Moment Since Start of War

    The Ukrainian leader is trying to prepare his people for “a very difficult choice” after almost four years of full-scale conflict with Russia.

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  • The Web of Venezuelan Generals Accused of Fueling the Cocaine Trade

    For more than two decades, a loose-knit group of Venezuelan generals and senior officials has enabled the shipment of thousands of tons of cocaine to the U.S. and Europe, American and Colombian officials say.

    While nearly all cocaine is produced in neighboring Colombia, Venezuela plays an important role in allowing the drug to move through its territory and then onto ships and planes that traffic it to Europe, the Caribbean and the U.S., the officials have said. 

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