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  • Rifles on display at That Hunting Store in Ottawa, Ontario in 2022. A federal buyback for assault-style weapons in Canada, where gun control is broadly popular, has been met with criticism from provincial officials, police and gun owners
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    Gun control is popular in Canada. So why is a major buyback program attracting criticism?
  • Forensic specialists speak in front the site of a deadly mass shooting in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday.
    Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
    Guns and mental health struggles: What the apparent online footprint of the Canada school shooter tells us
  • Police work near Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday.
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    Suspected shooter named as community gathers to grieve after Canada’s worst school shooting in decades. Here’s what we know
  • People left candles, flowers, photographs and plush toys at a makeshift memorial for the victims.
    Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
    What we know about the victims killed in one of Canada’s worst school shootings
  • Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and U.S. Charge d'Affaires for Venezuela Laura Dogu visit oil production facilities at the joint venture between Chevron and state oil company PDVSA in the Orinoco Oil Belt, following an agreement to pursue long-term energy cooperation after recent sanction relief and legal reforms that opened Venezuela's oil sector to greater foreign investment, in Maturin, Monagas state, Venezuela February 12, 2026.
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    US energy secretary and Venezuela’s acting president tour oil facility in warming ties just weeks after Maduro ouster
  • Rigo Mendoza, son, Kevin.
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    His son died after ICE detained his wife. Why this father of four chose to self-deport
  • The Ocean Mariner chemical/oil products tanker -currently sailing under the flag of Liberia- sails on arrival at the port of Havana on January 9, 2026.
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    Exclusive: Cuba says it’s ready to talk to US, but not about regime change, as Trump ramps up pressure
  • People walk past a mural painted in the colours of the Venezuelan flag in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 2.
    Maxwell Briceno/Reuters
    The US says Venezuela is changing. But one month since Maduro’s capture, its people aren’t so sure
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  • A chemical ad oil products tanker arrives at the port of Havana, Cuba, on January 9, 2026.
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    Trump’s threatened tariffs over oil to Cuba put Mexico in a bind
  • Relatives of detainees react outside the Helicoide detention centre after Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez announced a proposed "amnesty law" for hundreds of prisoners, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday.
    Gaby Oraa/Reuters
    Venezuela plans amnesty law for political prisoners and closure of notorious prison
  • Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference before a cabinet planning forum at the Citadelle in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada January 22, 2026.
    Mathieu Belanger/Reuters
    Carney says he expects Trump to ‘respect Canadian sovereignty’ after Alberta separatists meet with US officials
  • Carlos García and Gaby Duarte pose for a photo with their two children.
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    This former Venezuelan opposition mayor fears the US will deport him to the country he fled
  • <p>College students in Venezuela confronted acting President Delcy Rodríguez during her visit to the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) on Tuesday to demand that her government release professors and students imprisoned for political reasons.</p>
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  • Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodríguez looks on during the delivery of the first year's government report at Palacio Federal Legislativo on January 15, 2026 in Caracas, Venezuela.
    Jesus Vargas/Getty Images
    Venezuela’s acting president says she has had ‘enough’ of US orders
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  • Nicole “La Nicholette” Pardo is seen in an image released by the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office after a viral video appears to show her being abudcted at gunpoint.
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    US-Mexican influencer abducted at gunpoint in viral video found ‘alive and well’ in Sinaloa state
  • Voices of the Venezuelan diaspora after Maduro’s ouster: How millions live abroad as they wonder if it’s time to return
  • Capturing a president: CNN analysis reveals extraordinary risks taken to seize Maduro
  • As Trump zeroes in on Venezuela’s oil, Rodríguez moves to meet his demands
  • An image taken from a video released by Grey Bull Rescue Foundation, shows Maria Corina Machado during her escape from Venezuela.
    Grey Bull Rescue
    Video of Machado’s daring escape from Venezuela released by rescue team
  • Venezuela’s Machado gave Trump her Nobel prize. In return she received a swag bag but no promise of support
  • Haiti drone operation strikes home of gang leader ‘Barbecue’
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