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Two Venezuelan exiles wounded in ‘targeted’ shooting in Colombia

Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado blames Nicolás Maduro’s government for attack in BogotáIn Venezuela’s ‘darkest hours’, will peace prize boost opposition or backfire?An exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and a political consultant have been shot and wounded in an apparently targeted attack in Colombia’s capital.Yendri Omar Velásquez Rodríguez and Luis Alejandro Peche Arteaga were shot on Monday as they left a building in north Bogotá, Colombian police said. Continue reading...

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Death toll rises to 16 after factory fire in Bangladesh capital

A fire at a garment factory and a chemical warehouse in Bangladesh's capital on Tuesday killed at least 16 people, the Fire Service and Civil Defense department said.

Congo and M23 rebels agree to create body to oversee potential ceasefire

Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 agreed Tuesday to establish an oversight body for a potential permanent ceasefire, an important step toward a peace deal, after efforts to end decades-long fighting in eastern Congo stalled in recent weeks.

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Suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Kenyan presidential guard will be assessed

Police in Kenya have been granted 14 days to hold a man accused of stabbing a guard to death on Monday outside the presidential office in the capital, Nairobi, an attack widely seen as a major security lapse.

In Iceland, a town still shaken by volcanic eruptions tries to recover

Nine volcanic eruptions since December 2023 have shaken the Icelandic town of Grindavik and forced residents to repeatedly evacuate