​​​​​​​Climate change drove extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas, making burned areas around 30 times larger

Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts. According to climate models, the Los Angeles wildfires...

Venezuela Alerts UN to Imminent Military Threat Amid US Escalation

On Friday, 10 October 2025, Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, delivered a serious and urgent warning during an emergency session of the Security Council, asserting that Venezuela’s peace and security – and...

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos

Carbon emissions from extreme wildfires increased by 9% last year to reach the sixth highest level on record. Intense fast-spreading fires devastated huge swathes of South America’s rainforests, dry forests and wetlands and decimated Canada’s...

Trump condones public executions by Hamas, comparing victims to US strikes on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’

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In picturesHyena shot wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest

A “haunting” image of a hyena in a mining ghost town that took a decade to capture has won this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. The shot was selected out of a record-breaking 60,636 images submitted to this year's competition....

Venezuela closes embassy in Norway after opposition leader who praised Trump wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Gold mine collapse in Venezuela kills at least 14

BOGOTA, Colombia At least 14 miners died in El Callao, a mining town in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar, after a gold mine collapsed due to intense floods that have recently affected the country. The disaster followed strong,...

Hit-style shooting of Venezuelan activists in Colombia fuels fear of wider persecution by Maduro

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Trump boasts about bombing another Venezuelan ‘drug boat’ in the Caribbean. Smugglers have just found new routes

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War in Venezuela Could Be Another Vietnam, Warns Mexican Analyst Fernando Buen Abad

“The breakout of war in Venezuela could be a horror show for the entire continent. “ The Trump administration seems increasingly poised to climb a few more rungs of the escalatory ladder in its latest face-off with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro...

Spain contrasts peace in Gaza with Venezuela’s siege

At a press conference, Santiago stressed that the consolidation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, outlined yesterday in Egypt, “should not be used by the United States to carry out the invasion of Venezuela.” On behalf of the IU, Santiago...

Opinion: A&M enables its business partners in environmental disasters, international arms conflict

Follow the money. Do Texas A&M students really know how their university interlocks itself with corporations and governments? Do those interlocked establishments have our best interests in mind? In today’s climate of geopolitical unrest, the U.S....

At Least 14 Dead After Gold Mine Collapse in Venezuela

Tue 14 Oct 2025 | 01:16 PM At least fourteen people have been killed following the collapse of a gold mine in Venezuela’s southern El Callao municipality after days of heavy rainfall, emergency officials confirmed on Monday. Teams from the...

At Least 14 Dead After Gold Mine Collapse in Southern Venezuela

At least 14 miners were killed after heavy rains caused a gold mine to collapse near El Callao in southern Venezuela, officials said. At least 14 miners were killed after heavy rains caused the collapse of a gold mine in southern Venezuela,...

Days After Machado’s Nobel Win, Why Did Venezuela Suddenly Shut Its Embassy in Norway?

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado Days after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of Venezuela’s embassy in Norway, signalling his regime’s...

At least 14 killed in mine collapse in Venezuela

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United States Out Of Venezuela And Iran!

Above photo: Erik McGregor. The U.S. Peace Council condemns the U.S. government’s escalating wars abroad and its deepening war against working-class, Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and other oppressed and vulnerable communities here at home....

Socialist Venezuela Marks Columbus Day with ‘Indigenous Resistance’ March

Venezuela’s socialist regime held a rally in Caracas on Sunday to celebrate this year’s “Day of Indigenous Resistance,” a made-up holiday that erases the legacy of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the Spanish monarchy that backed him....

World birdwatching congress concludes in Venezuela

The event, which from October 9 to 12 hosted national and international experts, observers, tour operators, and conservationists from 21 countries, including 50 specialists, was “an event filled with many emotions, everything that touches the...

Trump Says The United States Took Out Another ‘Narcoterrorist’ Boat

The United States obliterated yet another boat full of “narcoterrorists,” President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday. The Department of War took out the vessel Tuesday morning, killing six men off the coast of Venezuela, Trump said....