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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatened retaliation after the U.S. extradited his ally, Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman to face criminal charges. 

COSCO, a Chinese state-owned shipping company, owns a majority of a shipping port near Athens. Chinese companies have spent billions on similar ports in a number of countries, according to data compiled by conservative think tank AEI. Experts say the U.S. is offering no real competition for China when it comes to these ports worldwide.

The Venezuelan government put the conversations on ice after Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a Venezuelan envoy, was extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges.

The protests come as President Nayib Bukele has stoked concern that he is steadily concentrating power and adopted bitcoin as legal tender.

“There were four landslides that happened there yesterday, the hill behind me,” a resident said standing in front of now-barren hillside.

Honorees included Costa Rica, for a project that pays citizens to restore natural ecosystems, and Milan, for program that redistributes supermarket food.

Recent opinion polls showed ruling Fidesz and Peter Marki-Zay's opposition alliance running neck-and-neck.

Softened by an electricity crunch and a debt-ridden real estate sector, third-quarter GDP growth was 4.9 percent, the slowest pace in a year.

The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, the group said.

"It seemed that 12 days would be a lot, but I did not want to leave when everything was over,” actress Yulia Peresild said after returning to Earth.

“Today is a great day,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said while announcing the end of lockdown.