Venezuela says it will withdraw from the Organisation of American States, accusing it of trying to meddle in the country's internal affairs. The decision was signaled shortly after the group voted to hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers to discuss Venezuela's political and economic crisis.
There's been a big explosion near the international airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Arabic media reports say it may have been an Israeli airstrike targeting an arms supply hub operated by the militant group Hezbollah. None of those details have been independently confirmed.
Police in Hong Kong have arrested and charged at least nine pro-democracy activists over their alleged participation in an anti-Beijing protest last year. Activists say they are being persecuted to discourage protests ahead of a visit by the Chinese President, Xi Jinping.
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persecute：['pɜːsɪkjuːt]
vt. 迫害；困扰；同…捣乱
President Trump has told Mexico and Canada that he wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Earlier reports that President Trump was considering an executive order to terminate the trade deal caused the Mexican and Canadian currencies to fall.
United Airlines has promised big changes to the way it handles overbooking, after a video of a passenger being dragged from a plane in Chicago caused international outrage. United said the policy changes signaled a culture shift.
Ministers from 27 European Union countries are meeting in Luxemburg today to discuss final draft guidelines on the bloc's stance on Britain's exit from the Union. Their talks are the last before E.U. leaders meet at the weekend to adopt that joint negotiating position.
Paleontologists studying the fossil record in California have put forward a highly-controversial thesis that early humans lived the region 130,000 years ago. They base the claim on the discovery of mastodon bones that they say could only have been broken by humans wielding rocks.
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