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G7 voices concerns on Venezuelan election results
A protestor raises his arms in front of tires on fire in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024, the day after the presidential election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Morning Update: Standoff and strife in Venezuela
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government attend a protest in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election. Protests erupted in parts of Caracas Monday against the re-election victory claimed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro but disputed by the opposition and questioned internationally, AFP journalists observed. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ottawa joins other Western democracies in raising serious concerns about Venezuela’s disputed vote
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government protest at the Catia neighborhood in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election. President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election but the opposition and key regional neighbours immediately rejected the official results. (Photo by YURI CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada urges Venezuela to detail election results, Freeland cites ‘serious concerns’
A woman walks on a pedestrian bridge with election signs of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 27, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fernando Vergara
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Venezuelan opposition says it has proof its candidate defeated President Maduro in disputed election
Protesters march and ride motorcycles as they demonstrate against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner, the day after the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Blinken says US will not prejudge outcome of Venezuela election
People check the electoral roll outside the Santo Tomas de Villanueva school where presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is expected to vote during the Venezuelan presidential election, in Caracas on July 28, 2024. Venezuelans vote Sunday between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent's threat of a "bloodbath" if he loses, which polls suggest is likely. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Maduro seeks to shore up Venezuela military’s support ahead of vote threatening his hold on power
Venezuelan President and presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro gestures during a campaign rally in Valencia, Carabobo state, Venezuela on July 23, 2024. Venezuela will hold presidential elections on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Juan Carlos HERNANDEZ / AFP) (Photo by JUAN CARLOS HERNANDEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Brazil’s Lula urges Venezuela’s Maduro to respect vote results, is ‘frightened’ by talk of bloodbath
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a media briefing with international news agencies at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on July 22, 2024. Lula da Silva said on July 22, 2024, that he hopes the presidential election in the US would be "as civilized as possible" and that "nothing would be in peril" after the withdrawal of US President Joe Biden from the presidential election race. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)
canada
Morning Update: McGill University threatens police action to clear pro-Palestinian encampment
Pro-Palestinian students and activists protest at an encampment on the campus at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, on April 29, 2024. About a hundred people have set up an encampment on McGill campus on April 27, 2024 demanding the university divest from Israel-connected funds. (Photo by Graham Hughes / AFP) (Photo by GRAHAM HUGHES/AFP via Getty Images)
energy and resources
Possible reimposition of U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela next month would clip country’s output gains
El Palito refinery of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA is pictured, in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela February 10, 2024. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
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Venezuela defends military buildup, accusing neighboring Guyana of granting illegal oil contracts
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - DECEMBER 8: President of the National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez unveils an updated map of Venezuela annexing Guyana's Essequibo Region to Venezuela at the National Assembly on December 8, 2023 in Caracas, Venezuela. President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ordered the creation of a new state called 'Guayana Esequiba', after a controversial referendum in which Venezuelan voters approved the annexation of the oil-rich region controlled by Guyana. Tensions escalate in the region as the United States will conduct flights within Guyana and President of Brazil Lula da Silva has called for a peaceful resolution to the dispute. (Photo by Gaby Oraa/Getty Images)
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Secret U.S. spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law
FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a small copy of his nation's constitution during ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31, 2024. A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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Trinidad and Tobago in talks with Europe to supply Venezuelan gas
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Keith Rowley speaks during an agreement-signing ceremony between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela August 25, 2018. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Guyana reassures Venezuela it has no plans for U.S. military base as territorial dispute deepens
FILE - Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defense of Guyana Essequibo Hermann Escarra, stands next to Venezuela's new map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, during an unveiling ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 8, 2023. Venezuelan military officials said Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, that they will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
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U.S., Venezuela swap Maduro ally for 10 Americans, plus fugitive contractor ‘Fat Leonard’
FILE - Pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 9, 2021. The Associated Press has learned that the Biden administration has released a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in swap for jailed Americans. Alex Saab, who was arrested on a U.S. warrant for money laundering in 2020, was released from custody Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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Leaders of Guyana and Venezuela to meet this week as region worries over their territorial dispute
National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, left, and Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defense of Guyana Essequibo Hermann Escarra, shake hands after unveiling Venezuela's new map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Guyana agreed to talks with Venezuela over territorial dispute under pressure from Brazil, others
National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, left, and Chairman of the Special Commission for the Defense of Guyana Essequibo Hermann Escarra, shake hands after unveiling Venezuela's new map that includes the Essequibo territory, a swath of land that is administered and controlled by Guyana but claimed by Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Gold mine collapse in Venezuela kills at least 12, government says
FILE - An airplane pilot who works in an illegal mine shows gold extracted from territory of the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 7, 2023. Yanomami leaders have urged people not to buy gold jewelry at all, regardless of its source, because demand for the precious metal drives gold prices up and pushes miners into their territory. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)
opinion
As Venezuela takes aim at Guyana, the world must defend the norms that protect it
Ben Rowswell
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Venezuela’s government wins vote on claiming part of Guyana, but turnout seems lacklustre
A woman casts her vote during a referendum about the future of a disputed territory with Guyana, at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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