CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s top prosecutor announced arrest warrants Wednesday for the presidential campaign manager of opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado and eight other staffers, accusing them in a violent anti-government conspiracy. Attorney General Tarek William Saab said in a nationally
Authorities in Belarus confirmed Wednesday that dozens more raids were carried out against opposition figures suspected of so-called “extremist” activity. The latest crackdown targets efforts to create “people’s embassies” by opponents of Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian government. The “embassies” aim to counter Belarusian
Prosecutors in the violent western Mexican state of Jalisco said Wednesday they found five dead bodies piled in a bulletproof SUV. 3 MEXICAN POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN HIGHWAY ASSAULT The state prosecutors’ office said someone called an emergency number to report the
The Dutch government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, a Dutch court ruled Wednesday, saying that the treatment of local residents amounts to a
South African authorities searching for a missing charter boat captain are concerned about possible foul play after they discovered his vessel burned and abandoned on a beach in neighboring Mozambique, but no sign of him or the unknown man who hired him.
City officials in eastern China apologized to local journalists after authorities were shown pushing them and trying to obstruct reporting from the site of a deadly explosion, in a rare acknowledgment of state aggression against journalists. The city of Sanhe, near Beijing,
Italian police have arrested three Palestinians based in central Italy who they said were planning attacks in an unspecified country, a police statement said on Monday. The three men living in l’Aquila, about 75 miles northeast of Rome, had set up a
Turkish police conducted raids in Istanbul and detained seven people suspected of selling information to Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced the arrests on social media, saying that the suspects were apprehended for collecting data. The arrests were part
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Monday rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggling vessel in distress off the country’s southern mainland, officials said. GREECE LEGALIZES SAME-SEX CIVIL MARRIAGE DESPITE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH OPPOSITION The coast guard said the migrants were
Daniela Klette, a former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction, was arrested in Berlin after more than 30 years on the run. Klette, along with Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, had been sought by police for years for their