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US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says hundreds more federal agents are heading to Minneapolis, brushing aside demands by the city’s Democratic leaders to leave after an immigration officer fatally shot a female protester. Source link

The US is enforcing a strict oil blockade on Venezuela, the communist country’s main supplier of oil, as the Trump administration continues to push Latin American countries to align with it. Source link

Peter Mandelson, who was fired as the UK’s ambassador in Washington DC over his ties to the convicted sex offender, has apologised to victims of Jeffrey Epstein “for a system that refused to hear their voices”. Source link

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency says a further 10,600 people have been arrested as Iran’s theocratic government attempts to crack down on the demonstrations. Source link

Anti-government chants filled the streets of Iran’s capital on Saturday night, as protesters pressed the biggest movement against the Islamic republic’s rulers in more than three years. Source link

The protests come after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis. Source link

Four years after the Taliban’s return to power, security is no longer the defining issue in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises is exacerbated by a series of overlapping disasters. Source link

The ABC hears from residents of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, about the struggles of daily life and their hopes and fears after American intervention. Source link

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a new study that has implications for human health. Source link

China has restricted access to South Korean pop culture since 2016, when Seoul received US anti-missile technology. Warmer bilateral ties are spurring optimism that will change. Source link