Venezuela blocking social media platform X for 10 days: Maduro

Venezuelans living in Colombia take part in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's disputed victory in the presidential election, in Medellin, Colombia, on August 7, 2024. (AFP)
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Updated 09 August 2024
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Venezuela blocking social media platform X for 10 days: Maduro

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has claimed reelection following a disputed vote, said Thursday that social media platform X would be blocked in the country for 10 days.

The state agency in charge of telecommunications will “remove the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days,” Maduro said, after previously accusing the site’s owner Elon Musk of an “attack” against his reelection.


Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

Updated 11 March 2026
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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court ​has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack ‌on an Iranian ‌warship ​off ‌the ⁠island ​nation’s coast ⁠last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, ⁠local media ‌reported ‌on Wednesday.
The warship, ​IRIS ‌Dena, was ‌hit by a torpedo from a US submarine in ‌the Indian Ocean while it ⁠was ⁠returning from a naval exercise organized by India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.