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    "Us-venezuela relations",
    "United states",
    "Gold",
    "Venezuela",
    "Commodity market",
    "Democratic republic of the congo",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n**1,000:** The maximum amount of _gold_, in kilograms, that Venezuela’s state-owned mining firm Minerven will send to US markets, in a deal reportedly reached between Washington and Caracas on Monday. It is the latest sign of growing commercial ties between the Trump administration and interim Venezuelan leader **Delcy Rodriguez** , only two months on from the seizure of **Nicolás Maduro**.\n\n****\n\n* * *\n\n**200:** The number of people who have _died_ in a rebel-controlled part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after heavy rains prompted a landslide at a major mine. Seventy children are among the dead.\n\n**⅔:** The proportion of Cuba that was _plunged_ into darkness on Wednesday, the latest blackout to hit the fuel-bereft country. Almost all of Havana was _without power_. The authorities blamed it on a fuel leak at the country’s largest thermoelectric power plant. With the US implementing a de facto oil blockage against Cuba, fuel supplies are running low there – and it’s taking a toll.\n\n**7%:** The amount that China’s military budget is set to _grow_ in 2026, marking another year in which funding for armed forces will increase at a faster rate than the economy. The buildup comes as Beijing enters a spat with Japan about the future of Taiwan.",
  "title": "Hard numbers: US strikes gold with Venezuela, DRC landslide kills hundreds, Parts of Cuba plunged into darkness again, China’s military budget to grow again"
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