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Venezuela's government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states after at least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in the capital, Caracas.
The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Smoke could be seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas. Another military installation in the capital was without power.
People in various neighbourhoods rushed to the streets. Some could be seen in the distance from various areas of Caracas.
The whole ground shook. This is horrible. We heard explosions and planes, said Carmen Hidalgo, a 21-year-old office worker, her voice trembling. She was walking briskly with two relatives, returning from a birthday party. We felt like the air was hitting us.
Venezuela's government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
People to the streets! the statement said. The Bolivarian .

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas

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Venezuelan authorities said the government did not know the whereabouts of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, following the US operation

Nicolás Maduro is a Venezuelan politician

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were "captured and flown out of the country" following the operation

Donald Trump, Nicholas Maduro

India will be playing only four Test matches in 2026, which will be their lowest number of red-ball matches in recent years

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Doctors are urging professionals to stop glorifying overwork and use all their office leave in 2026 to protect mental health, prevent burnout and sustain long-term productivity

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) secured a more than 92 per cent conviction rate this year, during which it also extradited 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Tahawwur Rana, besides arresting terrorists and their associates involved in the dastardly Pahalgam and the Delhi terror attacks.
Rana's extradition from the United States in April marked a significant breakthrough in NIA's investigation into the 26/11 terror attack conspiracy that left 166 people dead, according to an official statement.
Keeping pace with the changes in the terror and crime landscape in the country, the NIA made some major technical and operational advancements aimed at strengthening its investigation and modernising its capabilities.
A 'Lost/Looted Recovered' Government Weapons Database and an Organised Crime Network Database were developed to improve the anti-terror capabilities not just of the NIA but of all the key security and investigative agencies across states through real-time information .

NIA, National Investigation Agency

Press Trust of India

Khalid's parents visited the US before their youngest daughter's wedding to meet their elder daughter living there. During their visit, they met Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani

Vaishnaw said the successful launch of the Vande Bharat Express has inspired a new sense of confidence across the country for high speed travel.

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Over the past two weeks, an increasing number of users on the platform have requested Grok to create images and to morph photographs of women and children in a sexual context

Grok

Bloomberg

His vision for US involvement in Venezuela, sketched out in a midday news conference, left open the possibility of more military action, ongoing involvement in that nation's politics and oil industry

US President Donald Trump

Reuters

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he spoke with President Donald Trump directly to register his opposition to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and his wife by the US military, as he termed the unilateral attack on a sovereign nation an act of war.
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York and are being brought to the city to face the charges against them.
Responding to a question on the situation in Venezuela and Maduro's capture at a press conference, Mamdani said he called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act".
I registered my opposition. I made it clear and we left it at that, Mamdani said, giving no details of what Trump's response to him was.
The extraordinary international development has come just two days after Mamdani was sworn-in as New York City Mayor.
Mamdani was briefed Saturday morning by his administration officials, including his chief of staff and t

Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani

Swiss authorities have opened an investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year's party left 40 people dead, police said Saturday.
The two are suspected of negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and causing fire by negligence, police said in a statement. They said that the investigation was opened on Friday night, but didn't give further details.
More than 100 people were injured in the blaze that broke out about 1:30 am on Thursday at the Le Constellation bar in the Alpine resort town of Crans-Montana. The process of identifying the dead and injured was still underway on Saturday, leading to an agonising wait for relatives desperate for news.
Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fatal fire when they came too close to the ceiling of the crowded bar.
Many of the injured were in their teens to mid-20s, police said. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-dampening material on the ceiling ...

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