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Facing jail in Caracas, Guaido travels across South America

Bloomberg Juan Guaido’s first stop after he skipped out of Venezuela last week was Colombia. But after he failed to push food and medicine across the borders to hasten the end of autocratic President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, he headed to Brazil. Now, he’s in Argentina following meetings in Paraguay, and is expected to head to Ecuador on Saturday to be ...

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Australian ministers quit as election looms

Bloomberg Pressure built on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison after a second lawmaker quit in as many days, just weeks ahead of an upcoming national election. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne said on Saturday that he will retire at the election. Steven Ciobo, in charge of the defense industry portfolio, also said that he won’t re-contest his seat. Ciobo’s resignation makes ...

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Trump’s base clings tight despite rising tide of troubles

Bloomberg Donald Trump had a rough week. His former lawyer told a House committee that the president is a cheat and a racist who has committed fraud, hours before Trump returned empty-handed from a high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. Yet just down the Potomac River from Washington, at an annual gathering of influential conservatives, none of ...

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