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Trump posts graphic of Venezuela as 51st US state

VENEZUELA - US president Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a map graphic on his Truth Social platform depicting Venezuela with an inset American flag and the label "51st State".

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Tsang promises structural approach to flooding issue

PARAMARIBO – The heavy rainfall of the past couple of days has exposed the vulnerability of Suriname's drainage system. Streets, residential areas, schools and farms were flooded as faulty flood gates...

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Citizens suffer serious damage due to flooding in Paramaribo

PARAMARIBO - Many citizens from various parts of Paramaribo complained that they have suffered serious damage as a result of the flooding last Sunday.

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14 missing, 23 rescued after migrant boat sinks off Malaysia

MALAYSIA - A boat carrying 37 undocumented migrants believed to be from Indonesia sank off Pangkor island on Malaysia's west coast, leaving 14 people still missing,...

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Trump brushes aside Taiwan concerns ahead of Xi meet

US - President Donald Trump said Monday he was ready to discuss US arms sales to Taiwan during his visit this week to Beijing, as he suggested his personal chemistry with counterpart Xi Jinping...

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Trump warns Mideast truce on 'life support', Iran says ready for any aggression

IRAN - President Donald Trump warned the ceasefire in the Middle East war was on "life support" Monday after rejecting the latest counteroffer from Iran, which said its military stood ready to respond to any...

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Uganda's president sworn in for record seventh term

UGANDA - Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, 81, has been sworn in for a record seventh consecutive term following his landslide victory in disputed elections in January,...

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US in closely guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland

GREENLAND - The US has been holding regular negotiations with Denmark to expand its military presence in Greenland, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions, with talks between both sides...

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Shots fired at pickup truck near Peling Pasi

PARANAM - Unknown assailants who were hiding in the forest opened fire at a pickup truck that was driving near Peling Pasi last Saturday morning.

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Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader’s descendants

NETHERLANDS - A painting stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator,...

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Many areas in city and districts flooded after persistent rainfall

PARAMARIBO – Huge sections of Paramaribo and other districts are flooded as a result of persistent rainfall.

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Trump's China visit set to test fragile truce

CHINA - Beijing has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping. The visit, from 13-15 May, will be the first to China by a US president in nearly a...

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Trump says US Supreme Court should be 'loyal' on key cases

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday called on US Supreme Court justices to be "loyal" to his executive order banning...

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Oil prices jump after Trump dismisses Iran proposal to end war

IRAN - Oil prices have risen after President Donald Trump said Iran's response to US proposals to end the war was "totally unacceptable".

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Iran responds to US peace proposal, warns against new attacks

TEHRAN - Iran responded to Washington's latest peace proposal on Sunday, while warning it would not hold back from retaliating against...

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Iran army says countries siding with US to 'face difficulties' in Hormuz

IRAN - Iran's army warned on Sunday that countries complying with US sanctions against the Islamic republic would face difficulties crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

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President under pressurefrom own party over Mennoniteissue

PARAMARIBO - President Jennifer Simons is reportedly under growing pressure from her own political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP),...

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Militia kill at least 69 in DR Congo

DR CONGO - An attack by a militia group killed at least 69 people in Ituri province, in the conflict-ridden northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), local and security sources told Agence France-Presse on Saturday.

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Men survived in the forest by eating fruits

PARAMARIBO/ PARA – After going missing over two weeks ago, prayers were finally answered when 19-year-old...

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Ship struck by projectile off coast of Qatar

DUBAI - An unknown projectile struck a ship off the coast of Qatar Sunday morning, a UK maritime agency reported, after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards threatened to target US vessels in the region.

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Iran's Guards threaten US sites

TEHRAN - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened on Saturday to target US sites if Iranian tankers come under attack, Iranian media reported, as United States officials continued waiting for Tehran’s response to Washington’s latest negotiating proposal.

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Indian film star sworn in as head of industrial hub Tamil Nadu

INDIA - Indian film star C. Joseph Vijay was sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu state on Sunday after his new party brokered a coalition in the southern industrial hub.

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Buddhist monk arrested over alleged rape of teen in Sri Lanka

SRI LANKA - One of Sri Lanka's highest-ranking Buddhist monks has been arrested and sent to remand prison over the alleged rape and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

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Army parachutes onto remote island to help Briton

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN - British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.

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At least 9 killed as Israel pounds Lebanon despite truce

LEBANON - Israel carried out strikes across Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least nine people in the south according to authorities, with raids also targeting a highway not far from Beirut outside of Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.

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Brazil court suspends law aimed at reducing Bolsonaro sentence

BRAZIL - A justice of the Supreme Federal Court on Saturday suspended the implementation of a law that could reduce the prison sentence of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro until legal challenges against the measure are heard, according to a document obtained by Agence France-Presse.

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Spain starts evacuating virus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife

SPAIN - Spain is evacuating passengers from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship anchored near Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Health Minister Mónica García said the operation was “proceeding normally” and that all passengers aboard the MS Hondius remained asymptomatic.

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Tension in Gulf waters as freighter hit and Iran threatens US

TEHRAN - The naval stand-off in the Gulf threatened to escalate on Sunday following days of clashes and tit-for-tat accusations, as a cargo ship was struck off the coast of Qatar and Iran warned it could target US interests in the region.

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Rubio meets Qatari PM as US awaits Iranian response

WASHINGTON - Top US diplomat Marco Rubio met Saturday with the leader of Mideast ally Qatar, the State Department said, highlighting the Gulf state's role as a key intermediary for Washington as it awaited Tehran's...

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Eurovision fever hits host city Vienna

VIENNA - Eurovision fever was set to hit Vienna on Sunday with events planned for thousands of fans in advance of the song contest's grand final on May 16, with the build-up once again facing calls for a boycott over Israel's participation.

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Ukraine, Russia confirm US-brokered three-day truce, prisoner swap

UKRAINE - Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday a US-brokered truce and a large prisoner swap over May 9-11, when Moscow celebrates its World War II victory,...

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Syria says arrested Assad-era general over chemical attack

DAMASCUS - Syria’s interior ministry announced on Friday the arrest of a general from the era of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, accusing him of involvement in a 2013 chemical attack on a suburb of the capital, Damascus.

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Suspected oil slick off Iran's Kharg Island

WASHINGTON - Satellite images appeared to show an oil slick spreading off the coast of Iran's Kharg Island, a key oil export terminal for the Islamic republic. It was not immediately clear what had caused the apparent spill,...

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Peru presidential hopeful says electoral 'coup' underway

LIMA - Peru’s ultraconservative presidential hopeful Rafael López Aliaga on Friday accused electoral authorities of staging a “coup,” claiming — without providing evidence — that they were rigging the results of the April 12 election.

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More than 200,000 migrants have crossed Channel in small boats since 2018

UK - More than 200,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since records began in 2018, new figures show. The Home Office recorded 70 people arriving in the UK on Friday,...

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Indonesia volcanic eruption kills three hikers

INDONESIA - Three hikers — two Singaporeans and one local — died in an eruption on Friday at Indonesia’s Mount Dukono volcano after entering a no-go zone, officials said.

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US says two dead, one survivor in latest boat strike

US - The US military said on Friday it had struck another boat alleged to be trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people and leaving one survivor.

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WHO chief arrives in Spain before hantavirus-hit ship evacuation

GENEVA - The World Health Organization chief said Saturday he had arrived in Spain and would join government officials to oversee the disembarkation of a hantavirus-hit cruise ship in the Canary Islands.

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US plans evacuation flight for Americans on hantavirus ship

WASHINGTON - The United States said Friday it was organizing an evacuation flight for Americans on a hantavirus-struck cruise ship that has sailed to the Canary Islands,...

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Libya launches 'large-scale' crackdown on crime in major oil city

TRIPOLI - Authorities in western Libya's city of Zawiya, which houses a major oil terminal and a large refinery, said on Friday they had launched a "large-scale operation"...

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Missing boys back after about two weeks

PARAMARIBO/PARA – The families of the two teenagers who went missing in the forest in the Tibiti region can finally stop worrying because reports on Thursday confirmed that 17-year-old Livio Denkoi...