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Venezuela's government and opposition delegations agreed to create a Technical Committee on Freedom of Expression and restored access to blocked news sites, while critics note the opposition's dependence on Washington.

Venezuela's Central Bank is tightening liquidity through higher reserve requirements and interest rates to contain the bolívar's exchange-rate gap, but sustaining this depends on fiscal discipline and expanding oil output.

Historian Assal Rad discusses how US media manufactured consent for genocide in Gaza and war with Iran, and whether public media literacy is finally eroding that propaganda.

Historian Assal Rad discusses her book on how US media manufactured consent for genocide in Palestine, and whether public backlash against the Iran war signals collapsing media propaganda.

Venezuela and Paraguay signed a cooperation framework during President Santiago Peña's Caracas visit, opening talks to restore diplomatic ties while roughly $300 million in PDVSA oil debt remains contested.

A survey of alleged US-backed electoral fraud across Latin America, from Mexico 1988 and Honduras 2017 to recent votes in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil, framing Washington as the region's electoral manipulator.

Julian Assange's return to public commentary is celebrated as a victory over US efforts to silence him, alongside a forceful argument that neutrality on Gaza is impossible and that Israel's actions constitute genocide.

Saudi Aramco has told European refiners they will receive no crude in October after drone strikes shut the East-West pipeline, forcing buyers to scramble for alternative cargoes as Brent spiked above $130.

A provisional UN General Assembly speakers list places Venezuela at head-of-state level, fuelling reports that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez will attend, though Caracas has not confirmed her participation.

Cuba's national power grid collapsed entirely, prompting emergency protocols to restore electricity as an energy crisis worsened by the US blockade limits fuel, spare parts and generation capacity.

The UN General Assembly adopted an African proposal for an equal-area world map, challenging the Eurocentric Mercator projection and tracing how cartography, ocean trade and naval power shaped colonial empires.

Trump administration officials refuse to disclose where billions in seized Venezuelan oil revenue went, after sales routed through a Qatar account and contracts left unpublished despite congressional demands.

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.