The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela partially resumed operations in recent weeks, the agency’s chief said Friday, months after the government of President Nicolás Maduro expelled its staff for allegedly helping coup plotters and terror groups.
A Colombian man who helped kidnap two U.S. Army soldiers in Bogota four years ago became the second person to plead guilty in the case, according to the Justice Department.
A 34-year-old female pitcher has broken through baseball’s gender barrier by signing with an independent men’s league team, becoming the first woman to play Canadian pro baseball.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly vowed during his presidential campaign to send troops to the U.S. southern border, authorize lethal force against migrants attempting to cross between ports of entry, and even consider firing missiles into Mexico. Now, should Trump ask him to lead the Pentagon, DeSantis may have a chance to fulfill those promises.
A large haul of cocaine — more than 16,100 pounds of cocaine, with an assessed street value of $182.8 million — is off the market.
The Cuban government has been fooling U.S. sanctions by concealing the true nature of the company that handles money sent by Cuban-Americans to their families on the island, a Miami Herald investigation shows.
Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that codifies economic sanctions, like those imposed by the United States, as crimes against humanity and allows the prosecution of anyone who expresses support for the measures.
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico until fentanyl and undocumented migrants stop flowing over US borders. Canada says it has a plan to boost border security - and points to US government data that show most of the problems come from Mexico.
The situation is expected to worsen in the coming weeks, with Maduro’s government likely to approve electoral reforms that seek to exclude the opposition and its parties ahead of a Dec. 15 deadline.
The upsurge in violence in the face of an international armed force in Haiti has raised questions about the effectiveness of the Kenya-led mission, as well as whether the deployment of a formal United Nations peacekeeping operation would make a difference.