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Terror groups are handing Venezuela’s critical minerals over to China

✇The Hill
By: Josh Birenbaum and Cristina Vollmer Burelli · opinion contributors
17 October 2026 at 19:00
The Trump administration must address the corruption of the Venezuelan government and its role in allowing terrorist organizations and cartels to fund themselves by smuggling critical minerals to Chinese buyers.

Quatro feridos, dois graves em colisão rodoviária

✇A Voz de Trás-os-Montes
By: Márcia Fernandes
17 October 2026 at 18:17

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Luís Soares, comandante dos bombeiros de Mirandela, disse à VTM que do acidente resultaram “quatro feridos, dois deles graves, um homem, de 33 anos, e uma criança, de 5 anos. Os feridos leves são uma mulher, com 29 anos e uma outra criança de 2 anos”.

O comandante acrescentou que o homem “foi helitransportado para o Hospital de Bragança, para onde também foram transportados os outros três feridos, mas por via terrestre”.

Disse ainda que os feridos seguiam todos na mesma viatura.

O alerta para o acidente foi dado às 16h37 e para o local foram mobilizados 23 operacionais, apoiados por sete veículos e um meio aéreo, o helicóptero do INEM que está sediado em Macedo de Cavaleiros.

A GNR também está no local do acidente e vai investigar as causas desta colisão.

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Venezuelan women continue to have secret abortions as Colombia threatens to close its borders to them

✇El País - English
By: Andrea Hernández
17 October 2026 at 05:00
A doctor takes a woman’s blood pressure at Domingo Luciani Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, in March 2022.

It is 2022. In a neighborhood in western Caracas, Yolanda (a fictitious name) walks through a checkpoint manned by hooded police officers. In her pocket, she carries a small transparent bag containing several misoprostol pills – the second part of the treatment recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a safe medical abortion.

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The owner of this pair of pants had an abortion two months before the photo was taken, but was still bleeding. Caracas, Venezuela, March 26, 2023.A companion embraces a woman undergoing an abortion in a low-income neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on August 26, 2022. The procedure lasted about four hours. As she moaned in pain inside the bathroom, the companion held her and said, “You are strong, you can get through this. I'm right here.”A companion asks a woman undergoing a medical abortion if she can enter the bathroom, in order to hold her hair and body while she vomits and sits on the toilet. Photo taken in a house located in a working-class neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on August 25, 2022. Near this house, police forces are stopping everyone entering the neighborhood at a makeshift checkpoint.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño

A mother nurses her child while she walks towards a Red Cross camp in La Parada, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, on September 17, 2018.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño (EL PAÍS)

A woman taking misoprostol pills in a low-income neighborhood in western Caracas, Venezuela, on August 25, 2022.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño (EL PAÍS)

A protest against femicides in the historic center of Caracas, Venezuela, on March 11, 2023.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño

A pregnant 14-year-old shows the tattoo on her belly, standing on the Simón Bolívar International Bridge on September 17, 2018.

Pregnant Venezuelan women waiting to be seen at the Erasmo Meoz University Hospital in Cúcuta, Colombia, on September 17, 2018.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño (EL PAÍS)

A woman in bed next to the altar she made for her fetus' sonogram, at her house in Caracas, on March 26, 2023.

© Andrea Hernandez Briceno

An activist for the feminist organization Comadres Púrpuras marches on the Day of Global Action for Safe and Legal Abortions in Caracas, on September 28, 2022.

© Andrea Hernández Briceño

A woman leading a dance group during a protest march by a Christian coalition against sexual and reproductive health education in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 13, 2023.

El pueblo elige y los recursos lo siguen, así funciona la consulta popular en Venezuela

✇teleSUR Español
By: Ricardo Pose
17 October 2026 at 00:42
Más de la mitad de los recursos va al poder popular, por encima de Gobernaciones y Alcaldías. El domingo, más de 5.400 comunas eligen entre 37.000 proyectos. Desde Pariaguán, una productora cuenta cómo su comunidad decide en asamblea qué obra construir.

Venezuela elimina tribunales especiales de terrorismo cuestionados por organismos internacionales

✇Martinoticias.com
By: editor@martinoticias.com (José Pernalete)
17 October 2026 at 00:18
El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela eliminó la competencia en terrorismo de cuatro juzgados de Caracas, una jurisdicción creada en 2012 por el régimen de ese país. Abogados y defensores de derechos humanos piden revisar sus decisiones.

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