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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado sought to reassure her supporters Monday that her coalition still hopes to gain control of the presidency despite the departure of their candidate into exile. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. Machado’s group claims it has evidence that Gonzalez won the July 28 presidential election by a large […]

Medical professionals hold up posters during a nationwide strike in India by doctors to condemn the rape and murder of a young Kolkata medic. Credit – IDREES MOHAMMED—AFP/Getty Images IIndia’s Supreme Court has ordered the protesting doctors who went on strike demanding better working conditions after the rape and murder of a doctor in trainingto

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado vowed to remain in Venezuela on Monday, a day after her colleague and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia sought asylum in Spain over post-election repression. “I have decided to stay in Venezuela and participate in the fight from here, while he (Gonzalez Urrutia) does it from abroad,” Machado, who is

Nigeria’s drug approval agency has warned people against buying “miracle products” produced by a church led by popular Nigerian Christian television evangelist Jeremiah Fufeyin. According to Nafdac, the products, which bear names such as “miracle water” and “water from the Jordan River,” claim to have “fake” healing properties, such as the ability to cure women

According to the 100-page Cluster Munition Monitor 2024, compiled by the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international civil society organisation active in more than 100 countries, civilians accounted for 93 percent of global cluster munition casualties in 2023. Children made up almost half of all people killed or injured by cluster munition remnants in 2023 “Actions

Speech to the UN Human Rights Council In Geneva, Volker Türk stressed that international human rights and humanitarian law “are our pillars against unbridled power.” Halfway through his four-year mandate, Mr Türk gave a speech in which he deviated from his usual overview of specific country situations, instead offering broader reflections on the current state

The news Saudi officials have indicated they are willing to accept the Chinese yuan as payment for crude oil ahead of Premier Li Qiang’s visit to the kingdom on September 9. Saudi Arabia is seeking to strengthen ties with China as it seeks to diversify its economy away from oil. In an interview in Hong

According to leading expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, the German automotive industry is increasingly losing ground to its global competitors. “It is a toxic mixture from Berlin and Brussels that will cause great damage to Germany as a location for the automotive industry in the long term,” said Dudenhöffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research in

Austria is opposing the German government’s recently unveiled plans to reinstate passport controls at all German borders in a bid to drastically reduce the number of people entering the country without a visa. “Austria will not accept any persons who are being sent back from Germany. There is no room for manoeuvre,” Austrian Interior Minister

Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank and former prime minister of Italy, has presented his long-awaited report on the European economy, outlining goals and dire warnings about the bloc’s future if action is not taken to tackle the EU’s economic hurdles. Speaking to reporters in Brussels, Draghi noted that “for the first