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People carry Venezuela's national flag to protest the election results that awarded Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro a third term, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on July 30, 2024.
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The winner of Venezuela’s election was not President Nicolás Maduro but opposition candidate Edmundo González, the US government announced late Thursday, calling for talks to forge a peaceful transition of power.

A tank manoeuvres on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, August 1, 2024.
REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Strikes that killed a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and a Hamas leader in Tehran this week threaten to undermine months of US efforts to secure a truce in Gaza and prevent a wider conflict in the Middle East.

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva, who were detained in Russia, pose with others aboard an aircraft after they were released, in this handout photograph obtained on Aug. 1, 2024.
US Government/Handout via REUTERS

They’re free! Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan, journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza were released in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West on Thursday.

Residents wait to collect food in containers from a soup kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan March 11, 2024. Nearly five million people in the country are close to famine as Sudan's civil war passes the one-year mark.
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Famine has officially hit Sudan’s Darfur region in Zamzam, a displacement camp with a population of roughly 500,000, as the civil war in the country continues to wreak havoc on the civilian population.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S., July 11, 2024.
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Democrats began the process to formally select Vice President Kamala Harris as their party’s nominee on Thursday, and the online roll call will take place untilMonday at 6 p.m. ET.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pays tribute to the 309 victims of the earthquake that struck, in L'Aquila, Italy, on 5 April 2009.
(Photo by Andrea Mancini/NurPhoto)

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has accused EU leadership of falling prey to fake news after they issued a report highlighting press freedom issues in the country. T

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In the latest episode of GZERO World, Ian Bremmer interviews Argentina's President Javier Milei,who, despite his dramatic public persona, advocates for reversing Argentina's economic decline through free trade and aligning the country with Western democracies, warning against the dangers of socialism.