News Wire | December 23, 2022 Archive

U.S. Says Russia’s Wagner Group Bought North Korean Weapons for Ukraine War

By Steve Holland | Reuters

The private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine, a sign of the group’s expanding role in that conflict, the White House said Thursday.

Guaido, the Face of Opposition in Venezuela, May Be on His Way Out

By Isayen Herrera & Julie Turkewitz | The New York Times

The lawmaker may soon be voted out of power by the opposition, which no longer sees his interim government as a path to “real political change” against the country’s authoritarian government.

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