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Rights groups say at least 16 dead in Iran during week of protests
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All the victims of Swiss bar fire now identified, Swiss police say
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Zelenskiy proposes appointing First Deputy PM Fedorov as Ukraine's new defence minister
Shocked Venezuelans hunker down, unsure of what comes next
Date: January 4, 2026
Jan 3 (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces patrolled largely empty streets at dawn in the capital, Caracas, on Saturday, hours after loud explosions woke residents to the news that U.S. commandos...

Britain says it and France bombed suspected Islamic State arms dump in Syria
Date: January 4, 2026
LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Britain's and France's air forces conducted a joint operation on Saturday evening to bomb a suspected underground arms cache previously used by the Islamic State group in...
Trump says second Venezuela strike possible if government does not cooperate
Date: January 4, 2026
By Susan Heavey and Jana Winter CARACAS/NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention center on Sunday after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious...
Trump's bet on regime change in Venezuela is a sharp departure from MAGA agenda
Date: January 4, 2026
By Gram Slattery and Simon Lewis PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Venezuela, arrest its president and temporarily run the country marks a...

One killed, two injured in Ukraine's drone attack in Russia's border region
Date: January 4, 2026
MOSCOW, Jan 4 (Reuters) - One man was killed and a woman and a four-year old child were injured by a Ukrainian drone attack on a vehicle in Russia's western border region of Belgorod, the governor...
Four more who died in Swiss bar blaze have been identified, police say
Date: January 4, 2026
ZURICH, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The bodies of four more people who died in the fire that killed 40 people at a bar in Switzerland on New Year's Eve have been identified, cantonal police said. Two Swiss...
