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Sep 2025
45m 56s

US Blows Up Venezuelan Drug Boat

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The Trump Administration elevates the war on drugs - escalating tensions with Venezuela in the process - by blowing up a boat in the Caribbean it claims belongs to a notorious drug cartel ... More than 30,000 pages of Epstein documents are released to the public, but calls for transparency are still growing louder ... Touting a "new world order," Xi Jinping  ... Show More
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