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Military officers arrested in Maduro assassination bid

Bloomberg Two high-ranking military officials were detained in the ongoing investigation into the attempt on President Nicolas Maduro’s life using explosive-laden drones, Venezuela’s leading prosecutor said. The two join a lawmaker already in custody in what authorities say was a complex plot to assassinate Maduro, the first lady and senior members of government at a military parade August 4 in ...

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Railways are path to North Korea peace: S Korea’s Moon

Bloomberg South Korean President Moon Jae-in proposed setting up an “East Asian Railroad Community” that includes the US and North Korea as he seeks to tamp down rising tensions between the two adversaries. Moon said in an address on Wednesday that the new economic community would connect his country’s railroads to those of other northeast Asian nations. He compared the ...

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Italian populists blame EU after 35 killed in bridge disaster

Bloomberg The populists setting the agenda in Italy’s coalition government seized on the collapse of a bridge in northern Italy to question whether they should respect European Union budget constraints. Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini of the euroskeptic League led the way, telling reporters in Catania, Sicily, that the failure of a roughly 50-year-old suspension bridge in Genoa shows how important ...

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