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Recall of Nearly 5 Million Portable Blenders Under Way for Unsafe...

BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders can overheat or catch fire, according to a notice from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, and their blender blades can break off during use.

Venezuela launches military exercise over British warship ‘threat’

Maduro said he was launching "a joint action of a defensive nature in response to the provocation and threat of the United Kingdom against peace and the sovereignty of our country."

Venezuela accuses UK of provocation as warship heads to Guyana

Guyana and Venezuela have a long-running border dispute.

Paris’ Eiffel Tower shut as workers strike on 100th anniversary of...

One of the world’s most-visited sites, the Eiffel Tower is typically open 365 days a year — though it is occasionally affected by strikes — and is expected to play a central role in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

120 kilos of cocaine wash up on Australian beaches

A first batch of 39 barnacle-encrusted, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine was discovered on Friday near Magenta Beach, north of Sydney, police said.

Florida teen allegedly shoots and kills sister over Christmas gift spat

The argument over gifts started while the three siblings were Christmas shopping with their mother and the sister’s two sons, ages six and 11 months. It continued when they went to their grandmother’s house where the sister, 23, told the younger brother to stop arguing with his older brother since it was Christmas Eve

Suriname: Mother and child found dead with stab wounds

According to police, the mother who is 20 years old, and her son were found dead with stab wounds in a guest house on December 25.  

6-year-old boy travelling to visit grandma for Christmas put on wrong...

When the grandmother, Maria Ramos, showed up on Thursday at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers to greet her grandson who was flying for the first time from Philadelphia, she was told he wasn't on the Spirit Airlines flight.

Biden orders strikes on an Iranian-aligned group after 3 US troops...

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said one of the US troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday.

USA: New initiative to get work authorisation for new Caribbean migrants

Many of the asylum seekers arriving in New York from the southern border of the United States are nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.