Venezuela opposition leader González flies to Spain after arrest warrant

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez left for Spain overnight and was seeking asylum, officials said on Sunday, amid a mounting political and diplomatic crisis over the disputed results of July’s election. A plane carrying Gonzalez — who has challenged President Nicolas Maduro’s declaration of victory — had stopped off in Portugal’s Azores islands and…

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CIA and UK spy chiefs praised Ukraine’s “audacious” incursion into Russia and said the West won’t be intimidated by Putin’s saber rattling

There was a real danger that Russia would use tactical nuclear weapons two years ago after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine faltered, CIA Director William Burns said Saturday. Burns, speaking in London alongside his British counterpart, Richard Moore, head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service, also said Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was a…

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