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Bolivian economists warn that a proposed $1.9 billion IMF loan would require eliminating fuel, electricity and food subsidies, freezing public wages and opening strategic sectors to transnational corporations, risking devaluation and social unrest.

Venezuela's acting president received a senior Human Rights Watch delegation at Miraflores Palace, granting the US-based group its first high-level visit in 18 years despite Chavista criticism of its funding and sanctions advocacy.

Venezuela's education ministry plans to distribute school bags to over one million children and double uniform production to 14 million pieces, alongside rehabilitating 1,500 schools nationwide.

Ansarallah's Red Sea offensive gives it control of Bab el-Mandeb, driving oil above $100 and squeezing Trump politically as fuel prices threaten Republican midterm prospects.

Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller testified for three hours before the Attorney General's Office in the case against Argentine consultant Fernando Cerimedo, detained over an alleged attempted femicide and illicit enrichment.

A chronicle of US economic and military aggression against Venezuela, tracing how sanctions escalated into a Caribbean naval deployment, tanker seizures, boat attacks and the January 3 invasion of Caracas.

Marco Rubio and the OAS push sanctions and diplomatic pressure against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, revealing that Washington's stated concern for democracy masks an effort to defeat socialism.

Israel is deepening ties with a new wave of right-wing Latin American leaders who shield it from accountability, reversing a regional tradition grounded in international law and Palestinian statehood recognition.

Alex Saab's guilty plea in a US money laundering case is framed as the culmination of Venezuela's capitulation, with the Delcy Rodriguez government surrendering him and oil revenues to Washington.

Venezuela's CONATEL ordered internet providers to restore access to several opposition and far-right media outlets, following a national dialogue initiative, while the Public Ministry moved to protect the presumption of innocence.

General License 52C expands what US firms may do with PDVSA, covering extraction, transport and new investment contracts, while sanctions and key exclusions remain firmly in place.

BRICS states condemn Gaza's destruction in summit declarations yet keep trading with Israel, with India supplying weapons components and China, Russia, Egypt and Indonesia raising exports.

Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister plans to meet Venezuela's acting president at the UN General Assembly to restore bilateral ties, with energy cooperation over shared oil and gas fields central to the talks.

A US federal judge set an October 8 hearing on Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores' pretrial release request, as her lawyers cite a deteriorating cardiac condition and CODEPINK campaigns for her home detention.

Argues that Venezuela should not have answered the US military intervention with open conventional war, since defeat would destroy the country, and that survival and negotiation can themselves be forms of anti-imperialist resistance.

Artists rally behind Macklemore after a campaign by pro-Israel billionaire Robert Kraft to silence him backfires, sparking wider solidarity with Palestine amid the Gaza genocide.

Israeli strikes, sniper fire and the collapse of a bomb-damaged building kill Palestinians sheltering in Gaza, while attacks across southern Lebanon continue to destroy homes and infrastructure.

A rally in Beirut's southern suburbs marks Islamic Unity Week with speeches pledging continued resistance, honouring martyrs, and calling for the liberation of Palestine and southern Lebanon.

Children from Shatila refugee camp in Beirut learn filmmaking, photography and storytelling to document their lives and the Palestinian right of return, presenting their films at a Beirut theatre award ceremony.

BRICS expansion gives African states a seat as co-architects of global rules, offering development finance without the conditionalities of Bretton Woods and shifting the continent from subject to shaper of governance.

China warns against an arms race in outer space after the US confirmed deploying a space weapon, urging peaceful use of the Moon and multilateral space governance under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on September 16, 2026 that Tehran is fully prepared to deepen strategic coordination with Beijing to build a sustainable regional security framework.

Wang Yi met Celso Amorim in Beijing on September 16, 2026, conveying Xi's greetings to Lula as China-Brazil ties leapt from strategic partners to a shared-future community, and urging Global South self-reliance.

Gary Wilson argues the AI safety debate and the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act target China; Palantir's Maven Smart System runs on a nearly $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and Anthropic's Claude was used in the January 3 operation that kidnapped Maduro.

Ansar Allah's Red Sea gains and seizure of Mokha undercut Saudi Arabia's decade-long Yemen strategy, as a Yemeni-born scholar argues Riyadh should admit defeat and end the war.

Ben Norton analyzes China's anti-corruption campaign and the sentencing of Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan, arguing that the Communist Party maintains strict control over capital to prevent oligarchic dominance.

Capitalism's value-form has reached its terminal limit as debt and financialised wealth replace real production, forcing a choice between predatory barbarism and a post-value society built on shared limits and desire.

Yemeni forces have halted Saudi oil exports through the Red Sea after seizing the Bab al-Mandab Strait, hitting tankers and energy sites as Ansarallah vows to expel the Saudi-led coalition from Yemen.

Cuba's foreign minister says 7,000 containers of food and medicine are stranded at ports worldwide as US threats pressure shipping companies to halt trade with the island.

Israeli forces abducted Press TV correspondent Naqqa Hamed at a checkpoint near Bethlehem, the latest in a series of attacks on Palestinian journalists covering raids in the occupied West Bank.

Protests and Spanish left parties urge Sánchez's government to deny the US extradition of Fergie Chambers, arrested in Ibiza for funding humanitarian aid to Palestine, a case his lawyer calls an alarming precedent.

Venezuela's Public Works Ministry and international organization Miyamoto coordinate recovery efforts in La Guaira state, where over 792,000 tons of debris have been collected and processed under the Dignified and Safe Clearing Plan.

Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran's North American tour after pro-Israel businessman Robert Kraft pressured stadium owners over his onstage "Free Palestine" statements and Gaza genocide imagery.

Nicaragua's Sandinista government frames its social and economic gains, constitutional reforms and sovereignty defence as a second, definitive independence aligned with a multipolar world order led by China, Russia and BRICS.