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Brazil Sends Troops to Venezuelan Border

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08/20/2018

08/20/2018

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Brazil Sends Troops to Venezuelan Border

Top News: Brazil deployed troops to the Venezuelan border on Monday amid escalating tensions between Brazilians and Venezuelan migrants fleeing violence and economic turmoil.

In the border town of Pacaraima, local Brazilians attacked and set on fire Venezuelan migrant camps following reports that Venezuelan migrants beat a local business owner.

More than 1,000 migrants reportedly fled back across the border to Venezuela in the ensuing violence.

Suely Campos, the governor of the Brazilian state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, pled with the Brazilian government to close its border and dispatch security forces to deal with an uptick in crime she linked to Venezuelan migrants.

For three years, Venezuela has been in a political and economic crisis leading to food and medicine shortages. The United Nations anticipates that 1.8 million Venezuelans will flee the country this year.

Israel: White House National Security Advisor John Bolton traveled to Israel to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for meetings primarily focused on Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program.

AFRICA

•  The World Health Organization reported 44 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

•  Kofi Annan, the Ghanaian former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died on Saturday at age 80.

•  Two U.S. Marines received commendations for valor in action against al Qaeda in Tunisia in February 2017, the first time a U.S. service member has been wounded in Tunisia since World War II.

AMERICAS

•  Scientists say climate change is fueling worse wildfires in the American west, where almost 9,000 square miles have burned this year, a 28 percent rise above the 10-year average.

•  Ecuador introduced new restrictions to stop Venezuelan migrants from entering the country without passports.

•  Pope Francis vowed to not spare any effort to prevent child sex abuse and cover up in the Catholic Church in a new letter to all the world’s Catholics following an investigation into abuse in the United States.

ASIA

•  Hundreds of North and South Korean families will be briefly reunited for the first time since the Korean War armistice in 1953 as part of reconciliation efforts.

•  Afghanistan announced a cease-fire with the Taliban to mark the Muslim Eid holiday.

•  Some 22,000 people were rescued in the Indian state of Kerala following heavy flooding.

EUROPE

•  A Yazidi teenager says she met her former Islamic State captor and rapist on the street in Germany.

•  Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl was criticized for inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding.

•  More than 800 French bridges are at risk of collapsing, a government report found.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Shots were fired at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey from a moving car on Monday. No one was injured.

•  Saudi feminists started an internet radio station to advocate for women’s rights.

•  Cyprus extradited an airline hijacker back to Egypt following a two-year legal battle.

- By Robbie Gramer

(ISAC DANTES/AFP/Getty Images)

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