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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Begins Second Term

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01/10/2019

01/10/2019

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Begins Second Term

Top News: Amid ongoing economic and humanitarian crises and growing international isolation, Nicolás Maduro began his second term as president of Venezuela, which he won in a widely discredited election in May 2018.

Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales are set to attend the inauguration, but a dozen other countries in the Americas have rejected his legitimacy.

The Trump administration continues to target top Venezuelan officials with sanctions.

Maduro, who is now set to remain in office through 2025, has presided over an era of economic freefall, along with growing poverty, violence, hunger, and mass emigration.

China: According to Chinese state media, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a surprise visit to Beijing received Chinese support for a second U.S.-North Korea summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly accepted an offer to visit Pyongyang but did not set a date.

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AFRICA

•  Felix Tshisekedi, an opposition presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, won the presidential election, officials announced. The runner-up, Martin Fayulu, did not immediately accept the outcome, and the Catholic Church said its monitors saw a different result.

•  Zimbabwean doctors ended a 40-day strike without gaining concessions.

•  South Africa’s neighbors stopped meat imports over an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

AMERICAS

•  U.S. Navy Capt. John Nettleton—the former commander of the Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—was charged with interfering with an investigation into the death of a civilian worker in 2015.

•  The constitutional court in Guatemala blocked an effort by the government to kick out the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, a United Nations commission investigating government corruption.

•  For the first year since 2009, the rate of homicides in Colombia increased in 2018, according to police statistics.

ASIA

•  A new ban on smoking in restaurants in Malaysia has prompted widespread backlash.

•  The past two years have seen a spike in North Korean fisherman washing ashore in Japan.

•  Three Chinese warships docked in Cambodia Wednesday, amid speculation that China could be planning to build a naval base in Cambodian territory.

EUROPE

•  Four men went on trial in Berlin over accusations that they stole a giant gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum using a wheelbarrow.

•  Car company Jaguar Land Rover cut 4,500 jobs, mostly in Britain, amid Brexit uncertainty and lower sales in China.

•  France’s President Emmanuel Macron saw a slight increase in popularity after measures put in place in response to the Yellow Vest protests, including an increase to the minimum wage.

MIDDLE EAST

•  At a speech at the American University in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called former U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy “misguided.”

•  Houthi rebels in Yemen used drones to attack a pro-government military parade in Lahaj province, killing at least five people.

•  Archeologists in Damascus are beginning to restore artifacts from Palmyra defaced by the Islamic State.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images)

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