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$200 oil threat if India stops Russian crude buys; EU continues major imports: Sources
The Hindu Business Line
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August 2, 2025
As the world’s third-largest energy consumer, India has pursued a pragmatic policy to ensure affordable energy, adhering to international norms. The sources clarified that India continues buying Russian oil based on commercial terms, rejecting...
World News | If India Were to Stop Buying Russian Oil Global Crude Prices Could Jump to 200 Dollars a Barrel: Sources
Latestly
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August 2, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Global crude prices could jump to 200 US Dollars a barrel if India were to stop buying Russian Oil thus severely harming consumers worldwide, sources told ANI. Russian oil has never been sanctioned and is still...
A kite surfer, Navy SEAL and makeup artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela swap
WLRN - Florida
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A kite surfer on a South American adventure. A Navy SEAL whose family said he had traveled south for romance. A gay makeup artist who fled north for a better life. A man who sold bicycle parts for meager wages in Venezuela, before leaving for the...
Families welcome Venezuelans released from El Salvador with joy, grief
The Guam Daily Post
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Angela Leal went to bed Thursday and recited the prayer she has whispered to herself each night for the last four months. She asked God to keep her husband safe, to give him strength and to bring him home. The next morning, she woke to the answer...
Trump’s Deal Brings 10 ‘Wrongfully Detained’ Americans Home in Bold Swap With Venezuela
TFPP Wire
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July 19, 2025
Ten Americans are finally back on U.S. soil after being held in Venezuela, thanks to a high-stakes prisoner swap brokered by the Trump administration and aided by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. The trade returned Venezuelan gang members to...
Global crude could hit $200 if India stops Buying Russian oil: Sources
Awaz The Voice
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August 2, 2025
New Delhi Global crude prices could jump to 200 US Dollars a barrel if India were to stop buying Russian Oil thus severely harming consumers worldwide, sources told ANI. Russian oil has never been sanctioned and is still not sanctioned by either...
Venezuela must deliver on solar as blackouts look set to continue
China Dialogue
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July 11, 2025
In August 2024, 80% of Venezuela was plunged into darkness by a power outage that lasted around 12 hours. Such disruption has continued since then, and can last for days. The existing “load management plan” involves scheduled four-hour power cuts...
Ecuadorian Communities Resist State-Backed Mining Project Tied to Presidential Family
teleSUR
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As Ecuador’s third-largest mine begins construction, rural communities push back against what they describe as a corporate-state alliance that endangers their water and livelihoods. Weeks of protest have been met with police repression, reigniting...
India unveils upstream energy strategy at Urja Varta 2025: Reforms, resilience, and global synergy take the spotlight
Organiser Weekly
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In one of the key policy interventions at Urja Varta 2025, conducted on July 17, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri revealed India’s strategic roadmap for revolutionizing its upstream oil...
World News | Venezuela Releases Jailed Americans in Deal That Also Frees Migrants Deported to El Salvador by US
Latestly
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July 18, 2025
Caracas (Venezuela), Jul 19 (AP) Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans Friday in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The...
Venezuela must deliver on solar as blackouts look set to continue
Dialogo Chino
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July 11, 2025
In August 2024, 80% of Venezuela was plunged into darkness by a power outage that lasted around 12 hours. Such disruption has continued since then, and can last for days. The existing “load management plan” involves scheduled four-hour power cuts...
Venezuela expo boosts development and friendship
Friends of Socialist China
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July 11, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Vice President Delcy Rodríguez visited the Great China-Venezuela Expo, held in La Carlota, Miranda state, on July 4. The event, whose motto was “Building a Splendorous Future,” was held to coincide with the...
10 Americans freed in prisoner swap between US, El Salvador, Venezuela
AOL
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Washington — Ten Americans are en route to the U.S. after a prisoner swap involving the U.S., El Salvador and Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday. The Americans were freed from Venezuela in exchange for El Salvador returning 252...
World News | US Sends 250 Deportees to Venezuela from El Salvador in Exchange for 10 Americans
Latestly
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July 19, 2025
Washington DC [US], July 19 (ANI): The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday (local time), sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country...
El Salvador releases hundreds of US deportees from notorious prison in US-Venezuela swap
KESQ-TV - California
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July 18, 2025
By Kristen Holmes, Kylie Atwood, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El...
US swaps Venezuelans held in El Salvador for political prisoners in deal with Maduro
The Gazette - Colorado
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In a dramatic and high-stakes diplomatic maneuver, the United States and Venezuela have completed a sweeping prisoner exchange that could mark the beginning of a thaw in years of political hostility between the two nations. The arrangement,...
Venezuela's Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra cancels Hollywood Bowl shows: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Los Angeles Times
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July 11, 2025
In early July, the Los Angeles Philharmonic quietly canceled all four Hollywood Bowl performances featuring Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The L.A. Phil, in a statement, attributed the cancellations of...
Trump Administration Frees Ten Americans In Prisoner Swap With Venezuela
1450 WILM - Delaware
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The Trump administration has completed a significant prisoner swap with Venezuela, marking a diplomatic milestone. On Friday (July 18), about 250 Venezuelans deported from the United States and detained in El Salvador were returned to Venezuela in...
Trump administration completes large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela
KVIA - Texas
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July 18, 2025
By Kristen Holmes, Kylie Atwood, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. About 250 Venezuelans deported...
Venezuelans begin campaign for municipal elections
St. Vincent Times
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July 11, 2025
From July 10 to 24, more than 50 political organizations will be allowed to hold campaign events ahead of the upcoming elections. This will be the 33rd electoral process since the start of the Bolivarian Revolution. Voters will elect a total of...