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China’s New Push for Latin America
The American Conservative - Washington D.C.
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June 9, 2025
On May 14, China scored a major coup in its effort to increase Chinese influence in Latin America. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia signed a joint cooperation plan with the Chinese, formally adding the key Latin American country to China’s Belt...
Colombian Presidential Contender Shot Thrice 15-Year-Old Suspected Attacker Detained
MENAFN
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June 8, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Colombian right-wing presidential candidate, Miguel Uribe, is in critical condition after being shot three times during a campaign event in Bogota on Saturday, authorities said. The 39-year-old senator was speaking to...
Colombia’s Uribe ‘fights for life’ after initial surgery from gunshots
Manila Standard
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June 8, 2025
Bogotá, Colombia—A prominent Colombian right-wing presidential candidate who was shot during a campaign event in Bogota has successfully undergone initial surgery, the city’s mayor said Sunday. Thirty-nine-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe was...
Colombian pres’l bet has successful surgery after attack
Manila Standard
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June 8, 2025
BOGOTA, Colombia – A prominent Colombian right-wing presidential candidate who was shot during a campaign event in Bogota has successfully undergone initial surgery, the city’s mayor said Sunday. Thirty-nine-year-old Senator Miguel Uribe was...
Australian gas: EnergyQuest hits back at Madeleine King’s claim of high prices
The West Australian
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June 9, 2025
A top energy consultancy has squared off against Resources Minister Madeleine King over claims that Australians are paying higher gas prices than other developed nations. EnergyQuest chief executive Rick Wilkinson said the country “still has some...
Abdulah tells Govt: No need to escalate tensions with Venezuela
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Political leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ), David Abdulah, has criticised Government’s handling of recent allegations involving Venezuela, urging a measured response grounded in diplomacy rather than...
Assassination Attempt on Colombian Politician Looks Familiar
The American Spectator - Virginia
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An assailant or assailants shot Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, thought of as a likely presidential candidate in the 2026 election, in the head at a rally in the nation’s capital over the weekend. Authorities arrested a 15-year-old in possession...
BP needs to scrap its Big Oil mentality, and its buybacks
Hellenic Shipping News
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June 8, 2025
BP has jumped from crisis to crisis in recent years, severely eroding the British firm’s stature as one of the world’s leading oil companies. Given the increasingly challenging dynamics in today’s oil market, BP may finally need to accept that it...
Mexicans in L.A. Get Tear Gas — White Rioters in D.C. Got a Tour
African American News - Texas
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June 8, 2025
Over the weekend, Los Angeles streets erupted in smoke and fire after coordinated ICE raids on June 6–7 led to the arrests of over 100 undocumented immigrants, mostly Latino. Protesters responded with fury—burning cars, waving Mexican flags, and...
Tear gas fired at protesters in Los Angeles as Donald Trump warns of ‘troops everywhere’
The New Zealand Herald
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June 9, 2025
Police later moved and pushed demonstrators away from the federal lines, using batons, flash-bang grenades and tear gas as they tried to disperse the crowd, some of whom spilled on to a major freeway, stopping traffic. Trump, asked about the use...
Pepper spray, tear gas fired at LA protesters; Trump warns of ‘troops everywhere’
Newstalk ZB
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June 9, 2025
Security forces have clashed with protesters in Los Angeles as National Guard troops deployed by Donald Trump fanned out across the city on the third day of unruly protests over federal immigration raids. Trump, who has made clamping down on...
Tear gas fired in LA as Trump sends troops to crush immigration protests
Helsinki Times
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June 8, 2025
National Guard soldiers fired tear gas at demonstrators gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, as tensions over mass immigration arrests escalated into open confrontation. Riot police and troops deployed by...
Young defends Energy Ministry over fatal NiQuan blast report
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 8, 2025
News Jada Loutoo 3 Hrs Ago Former energy minister Stuart Young. - File photo FORMER energy minister Stuart Young has defended the ministry’s handling of the investigative report into a fatal accident at NiQuan Energy Ltd’s gas-to-liquids plant in...
Monster Energy's Merab Dvalishvili Defeats Sean O'malley To Defend UFC Bantamweight Title At UFC 316 In Newark
MENAFN
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June 8, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) In the night's Co-Main Event, 34-year-old Kayla Harrison from Middletown, Ohio, earned a submission victory over Julianna Peña in Round 2 to claim the UFC Women's Bantamweight division World Championship title. Harrison also...
Venezuela and Russia Sign New Agreement for Reactivate Tourist Flights
teleSUR
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June 8, 2025
Airbus 340-600, part of the Venezuela’s Conviasa air flotilla. Photo:X/ @LAConviasa June 8, 2025 Hour: 3:16 pm Venezuela and Russia signed a new agreement for the reactivation of tourist flights, with which the Caribbean country wants to make...
Colombian presidential hopeful's shooting stirs echoes of past political violence
Semafor
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June 8, 2025
An assassination attempt on a Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Saturday stirred echoes of a dark period in the country’s history Miguel Uribe Turbay, a right-wing politician and critic of current President Gustavo Petro, remained in...
Teen Suspect Arrested As Colombian Presidential Hopeful Rushed to ICU After Being Shot in Head Twice
International Business Times
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June 8, 2025
Colombian presidential candidate and Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay remains in critical condition after he was shot twice in the head and once in the leg during a campaign rally in Bogotá on Saturday. A 15-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene...
Malicious Browser Extensions Infect Over 700 Users Across Latin America Since Early 2025
The Hacker News
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June 8, 2025
Jun 08, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting Brazilian users since the start of 2025 to infect users with a malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers and...
US agencies scramble to contain massive oil leak from decades-old well: 'We owe it to our communities'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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June 8, 2025
A tri-agency effort between the U.S. Coast Guard, Spectrum OpCo, LLC, and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office helped contain a weeklong oil-and-gas well leak located at the border of a Louisiana parish at the Gulf of Mexico, according to...
'Migrants are not criminals': Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum ‘criticizes’ Los Angeles raids
Mint
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June 9, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum defended migrants living in Los Angeles, and claimed that at least 35 Mexicans had been detained in the recent raids carried out by immigration officers of the Trump administration. The arrests made in Los...