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Sunday, January 04, 2026

The Cuban government said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens were killed during the U.S. raid on Venezuela to extract President Nicolas Maduro for prosecution in the United States. Havana said there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honor of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced. The Cuban government statement gave few details, but said all the dead were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies. True to their responsibilities concerning security and defense, our compatriots fulfilled their duty with dignity and heroism and fell, after fierce resistance, in direct combat against the attackers or as a result of bombings on the facilities," the statement said. Cuba has provided some security for Maduro since he came to power. It was not clear how many Cubans were guarding the Venezuelan president when they died and how many may have perished elsewhere.


Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a crowd in October that the "counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building" was over" a little over a month before President Donald Trump's military actions in Venezuela. After news broke on Saturday of the Trump administration's capture Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro, social media was quick to unearth Gabbard's previous warnings against Venezuelan intervention. Speaking at conference in Bahrain on Oct. 31, Gabbard praised Trump for "building peace through diplomacy" while claiming that the days of foreign intervention were over. "The old Washington way of thinking is something we hope is in the rear-view mirror and something that has held us back for too long," said Gabbard. "For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building.


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Saturday, January 03, 2026

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has disgraced its billionaire creator by branding President Donald Trump a pedophile and declaring that Vice President JD Vance and Erika Kirk are the same person. read more


Ukraine staged the death of a high-ranked Russian fighting on Kyiv's side to prevent him being killed on Moscow's orders and lure out those involved in the plot, Ukrainian military intelligence announced on Thursday. read more


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