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US aircraft carrier arrival ups Venezuelan attack fears

CARACAS – A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in Latin America Tuesday, escalating a military buildup Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown...

Iron Fist

A man carries fish on the beach in Manta, Ecuador on Nov. 8, 2025. From the former U.S. military base in Manta, only empty...

Caught between Venezuela, US, Trinidad fishers fear the ocean

CEDROS, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – A stone’s throw from Venezuela, in the eye of a political storm fueled by a US naval deployment, fishermen...

Venezuela says 3 drug-ferrying planes seized

CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday (Friday Manila time) his country had intercepted three planes allegedly used for drug trafficking, in operations...

Colombian president Petro berates Trump over extrajudicial ‘executions’

BOGOTA – Colombia’s leftist president ramped up denunciations of Donald Trump’s anti-drug air strikes and swatted aside US threats to freeze hundreds of millions...

Trump, Colombia leader Petro trade threats as US strikes boats in Pacific

WASHINGTON, DC – President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro traded angry threats Wednesday (Thursday Manila time) as the United States announced...

Explosions Rising

Firefighters are seen at the crime scene where a suspected car bomb exploded in front of a shopping center in the north of Guayaquil,...

Sri Lanka arrests most-wanted woman

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s most-wanted woman, who is accused of taking part in the brazen courtroom murder of a suspected top drug dealer, has...

P56-million cocaine found floating off Palawan coast

Authorities have recovered about P56 million worth of suspected cocaine off the coast of Palawan after a fisherman surrendered a floating bag containing nine...

Venezuela slams ‘illegal incursion’ by US jets

CARACAS – Venezuela’s government slammed what it called an “illegal incursion” Thursday (Friday Manila time) by US fighter jets into an area under Venezuelan...

Maduro receives honorary military degree amid standoff with US

CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was awarded an honorary doctorate Tuesday (Wednesday Manila time) from a military academy as Caracas stares down the...

African tourist with P27-m ‘shabu’ nabbed in Mactan

Government agents apprehended an African tourist at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) after discovering P27 million worth of illegal drugs in his possession. The foreigner,...

Venezuela vows to resist alleged US ‘aggression’

WASHINGTON, DC—President Donald Trump said a US new strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat from Venezuela killed three people Monday, as the South...

US troops cannot invade Venezuela, says Maduro

CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday (Friday Manila time) there was “no way” US troops could invade Venezuela after Washington deployed five...
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