35 h. ago Machado escape planner feared US strike on her vessel as it fled Venezuela

Special forces veteran Bryan Stern says he told US defence officials some of his planned route to reduce airstrike riskThe most dangerous moments came when salvation seemed finally assured.Many miles from land, the small fishing skiff carrying the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize laureate María Corina Machado had been lost at sea for hours, tossed by strong winds and 10ft waves. A further hazard was the ever present risk of an inadvertent airstrike by US warplanes hunting alleged cocaine smugglers. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado appears in Norway after dramatic escape from Venezuela

Machado made a daring escape from Venezuela by boat and travelled to the Caribbean island of Curacao, from where she departed on a private plane for Norway

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6 d. ago Admiral tells lawmakers that all 11 people on alleged drug boat hit by double

The double-tap strike against the alleged drug vessel has been at the center of a growing controversy

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9 d. ago Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific

Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglersThe Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military’s southern command had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific.Video of the new strike was posted on social media by the US southern command, based in Florida, with a statement saying that, at the direction of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago White House defends Hegseth’s ‘legal’ Venezuela drug boat strikes: Live updates

Congress has opened inquiries into the reported ‘double tap strike’ on the alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean

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1 week ago Trump ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second strike on Caribbean boat survivors

US president says he will look into reports US military was told to conduct follow-up attack on suspected drug vesselDonald Trump said on Sunday he would look into reports that the US military conducted a follow-up strike on a boat in the Caribbean that it believed to be ferrying drugs, killing survivors of an initial missile attack.The US president also said he “wouldn’t have wanted” a second strike on the vessel during the incident on 2 September – the first publicised operation in a series of attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that Washington says are aimed at combatting the drug trade. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump defends Hegseth as secretary faces questions over Venezuela boat strike ‘war crime’: Live

The House and the Senate have opened inquiries into the reported ‘double tap strike’ on the alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean

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1 week ago US strike on Venezuelan vessel could be war crime, say lawmakers

Bipartisan Congressional committees vow to probe alleged order by defence secretary to leave no survivors

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1 week ago US strike on Venezuelan vessel could be war crime, say Democrats

Bipartisan Congressional committees vow to probe alleged order by defence secretary to leave no survivors

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2 w. ago ‘Cuban spies would execute tyrant Maduro if he fled Venezuela’, US officials believe as Trump set to talk to dictator

VENEZUELAN president Nicolas Maduro could be executed by Cuban spies if he leaves the country. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said he is ready to speak to the dictator personally - despite just designating him the head of a terror organisation. It's no secret that America wants Maduro out and a new regime installed, even if...

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3 w. ago Venezuelan man came to the US legally 10 years ago. Now he’s in Florida ICE lockup and family worries he’s had a heart attack

EXCLUSIVE: Ricardo Páez fled Venezuela after being kidnapped. Now, after 10 years of living a suburban dream with his wife and dog in Pembroke Pines, he's been detained by ICE and is suffering behind bars as he faces deportation to parts unknown, his family tells Brendan Rascius

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3 w. ago ICE turns Florida man’s American dream life into Everglades lockup nightmare: ‘I feel so terrified’

EXCLUSIVE: Ricardo Páez fled Venezuela after being kidnapped. Now, after 10 years of living a suburban dream with his wife and dog in Pembroke Pines, he's been detained by ICE and is suffering behind bars as he faces deportation to paarts unknown, his family tells Brendan Rascius

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3 w. ago American dream turns into nightmare for Florida couple after 66

EXCLUSIVE: Ricardo Páez fled Venezuela after being kidnapped. Now, after 10 years of living a suburban dream with his wife and dog in Pembroke Pines, he's been detained by ICE and is suffering behind bars as he faces deportation to paarts unknown, his family tells Brendan Rascius

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