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Why was Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captured and detained in Brooklyn?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro is being held at a detention center in Brooklyn less than a day after U.S. forces captured Maduro and his wife on a military base in Caracas. The military action was quick and its planning was kept a secret even from members of Congress. Now members of both parties are complaining about being kept in the dark. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Trump's being hypocritical by arresting Maduro while pardoning other convicted leaders.
Explained. And glaring contradiction. between parting Mont uh Hernandez of Honduras. who was convicted of I believe sending four hundred uh kilos of cocaine into the United States.
How did Russia respond to the U.S. operation against Venezuela and what does it mean for U.S.–Russia relations?
Russia, meanwhile, is also condemning the US actions against Venezuela, as in Pierre's Charles Mainz reports from Moscow, Maduro had been an ally of K the Kremlin.
In a statement, Russia's foreign ministry called the Trump administration's pretext for attacking Venezuela unfounded and said if the U.S. actions marked an unacceptable assault on Venezuela's sovereignty. Despite such expressions of support, Moscow has stopped short of challenging the U.S. more forcefully amid a months-long pressure campaign by the Trump administration against the Venezuelan leadership. The Kremlin reportedly rebuffed a request by Nicolas Maduro for direct military. military assistance in the fall, a result analysts say of Moscow's desire to maintain good relations with the Trump administration as it tries to broker its own peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine. Charles Baines, MPR
News, Moscow. Protests announcing the Trump administration's military intervention in Venezuela and the capture of its president are being held across the country. Texas Public Radio's Joey Palacios from San Antonio filed this report from a protest that called for the U.S.
What are the main messages and goals of the anti‑war protests in Texas against U.S. involvement in Venezuela?
to remove itself from the South American country's politics.
About eighty protesters from the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the 5051 movement gathered at a busy San Antonio intersection where an ice rate was held last year. They held signs that said, No blood for oil. Democracy needs your courage, and money for health care, not for war and detention. Carrie Rosen, a local organizer with the party, says the goal is to build an anti-war movement.
Assuming this is military city USA. This city will be directly impacted if there's escalation in Venezuela, and so we need to build a working class movement that is anti-war.
Several other protests are planned in Texas on Sunday, including Houston, Austin, and Dallas. I'm Joy Palacios in San Antonio.
Officials in Switzerland have opened an investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year's Eve party left forty people dead and injured more than one hundred others.
What details have emerged from the Swiss investigation into the deadly New Year’s Eve bar fire?
A prosecutor said Saturday that the two are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm, and involuntarily causing a fire. The fire broke out early Thursday morning at the bar in the ski resort of Crans, Montana. This is NPR News. Lake Effect Snow has been dropping on large parts of upstate New York for the better part of a week. But as Bruce Conweiser reports from New York City, that snow Armageddon is finally ending.
The hardest hit areas were downwind from Lake Ontario, where multiple towns were buried under three and four feet of snow. But the hardest hit may have been Camden, a town of about 5,040 miles east of Lake Ontario. It was buried under sixty five inches of snow. Among cities with populations above a hundred thousand, Syracuse is considered the snowiest city in America. They got two feet of snow in a single day, making it the city's heaviest one-day accumulation in nearly eighty years.
How severe was the recent lake‑effect snowstorm in upstate New York and which towns were hardest hit?
Farther west, some towns south of Lake Erie were also buried under three feet of snow this week. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Conweiser in New York.
National security advisors from Europe and elsewhere were in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss security guarantees. The talks came as a push to end the war in Ukraine grows. European leaders will meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on Tuesday for further talks.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why was Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro captured and detained in Brooklyn?
0:01–0:45
2
How did Russia respond to the U.S. operation against Venezuela and what does it mean for U.S.–Russia relations?
0:45–1:45
3
What are the main messages and goals of the anti‑war protests in Texas against U.S. involvement in Venezuela?
1:45–2:42
4
What details have emerged from the Swiss investigation into the deadly New Year’s Eve bar fire?
2:42–3:43
5
How severe was the recent lake‑effect snowstorm in upstate New York and which towns were hardest hit?
3:43–4:39