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US sanctions Maduro's nephews as pressure campaign against Venezuela grows

The new sanctions on Franqui Flores, Carlos Flores and Efrain Campo come a day after Trump announced that the US had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

Strike on hospital in rebel-controlled area of Myanmar kills 34, injures 80

About 80 other people were injured in the attack on Wednesday night on the general hospital in Mrauk-U township, an area controlled by the ethnic Arakan Army

Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald to step down after year of weak sales in US

The board said it was conducting a comprehensive search in partnership with a leading executive search firm to select his successor

Brazil's Sao Paulo blackout leaves 1.4 mn without power; flights cancelled

Aviation authorities say most of the cancelled flights were at the local Congonhas airport, but added that Guarulhos International Airport, outside the city, was also affected

House votes to nullify Trump order, restore rights for federal workers

The bill still needs Senate approval to become law, but 20 Republicans sided with Democrats in a rare break from the president

Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for $40 bn fraud

Kwon, a Stanford graduate known by some as the cryptocurrency king, apologised after listening as victims -- one in court and others by telephone -- described the scam's toll

US federal judge orders release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from ICE detention

The ruling marked a major victory for the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador made him a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown

Nasa loses contact with Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for past decade

Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet the following year

US Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs set to rise

Most Democratic lawmakers opposed the move as many Republicans made clear that they wanted the tax credits to expire

Putin offers 'solidarity' for Venezuelan people as tensions with US rise

The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin spoke with Maduro by phone and reaffirmed his support for Venezuelan leader's policy of protecting national interests

OpenAI faces suit over ChatGPT's alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide

The lawsuit filed by Adams' estate on Thursday in California Superior Court alleges OpenAI designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user's paranoid delusions about his own mother

US Senate set to reject extension of health care subsidies as costs rise

When people's monthly payments spike next year, they'll know it was Republicans that made it happen, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said in November

Thailand reports first civilian deaths in renewed conflict with Cambodia

The latest large-scale fighting was set off by a skirmish on Sunday that wounded two Thai soldiers and derailed a ceasefire pushed by US President Donald Trump

Trump's immigration enforcement separates thousands of migrant families

In the first Trump administration, families were forcibly separated at the border and authorities struggled to find children in a vast shelter system because government computer systems weren't linked

Without affirmative action, US elite colleges turn to economic diversity

America's top campuses remain crowded with wealth, but some universities have accelerated efforts to reach a wider swath of the country, recruiting more in urban and rural areas

Judge to decide degree of media access in Charlie Kirk assassination case

Robinson was expected to appear in person Thursday after making previous court appearances via video or audio feed from jail, according to a transport order

EU nations open door to faster migrant removals and tougher rights limits

European governments open the door to revising long-standing protections for migrants as political pressure mounts, despite a fall in irregular border crossings this year

US House passes defence bill to raise troop pay, overhaul weapons purchases

The bill's passage comes at a time of increasing friction between the Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump's administration over the management of the military

US has seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, says Trump

Among the concessions the US has made to Maduro during the past negotiations was the approval for oil giant Chevron Corp to resume pumping and exporting Venezuelan oil

Paramount goes hostile in Warner Bros bid, taking on Netflix's $72 bn offer

Over the weekend, Trump said the Netflix-Warner combo "could be a problem" because of the size of the combined market share