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US President Donald Trump said he was leaving the possibility of ⁠war with Venezuela on the table, according to an interview with NBC News published on Friday. “I ‍don’t rule it out, no,” ‍he told NBC News in a phone interview. Trump also ‌said there would be additional seizures ‍of oil tankers near Venezuelan waters, according to the published interview. On Tuesday, Trump order...

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This week, exactly six years ago, as we were gliding cheerfully into the 2019 festive Christmas season, the Covid-19 virus was spreading in Wuhan, China. I was preparing for an important meeting in Australia in February (the last overseas trip I would make for three years), oblivious to the looming pandemic. The world in general had no inkling of the terrible three years that wo...

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US President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery programme on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that at Trump’s direction she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the programme. “T...

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US President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast was raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while fuelling concerns that the US could be edging closer to war. The Trump administration says its blockade is narrowly tailored and not targeting civilians, which would be an illegal act of war. But some...

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US officials have identified a suspect in the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured several others, US media reported on Thursday, in a breakthrough in the case. “Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Brown University shooting, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the case,” CNN reported. CBS News also reporte...

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