US-Venezuela commercial flights restart

The first direct commercial flight in seven years between the United States and Venezuela landed Thursday at Simón Bolívar Airport near Caracas, arriving from Miami. The service signals a warming in relations between the two countries following recent…

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Mali jihadists vow to blockade capital

Jihadist groups in Mali are calling for the overthrow of the ruling military junta, claiming they have begun blockading the capital, Bamako, and seizing additional territory as part of a widening insurgency. The coalition known as JNIM and its allies …

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Macron on the world stage: French president ‘very popular everywhere in Europe, except for France’

Alison Sargent welcomes Dr Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University. As Labour Day is commemorated across the globe, Dr Foucart offers a sobering analysis of France’s sociopolitical and economic challenges in the lead-up to…

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