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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges all nations to end financial dealings with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as he calls for recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaido. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for China to step up prosecutions over fentanyl as he praises recent measures to curb precursor chemicals to the painkiller behind a deadly US addiction epidemic. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations Security Council demands an immediate end to attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea. The resolution passed "demands that the Huthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security." It passed after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria abstained. IMAGES
Elephant tusks, jewellery, statuettes and a mahjong game: a total of 1.850 tons of ivory were crushed and incinerated in Reims, France on Tuesday. The majority of the ivory was donated by some 90 private individuals, with the rest coming from police seizures. Equivalent to the tusks of some 180 elephants, the initiative was organised by the International Fund for Animal Welfare(IFAW) and France's Office for bio-diversity (OFB)in a bid to show that "ivory only belongs on elephants". IMAGES
The United States urges Cuba to end internet restrictions imposed after unprecedented protests and renews a call for the release of detained demonstrators. "We call on Cuba's leaders to demonstratate restraint and to urge respect for the voice of the people by opening all means of communciation, both online and offline," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
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