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Venezuelan citizens living in Bogota protest against President Nicolas Maduro and the continuing power outage in Venezuela, in Bogota, Colombia, March 11, 2019. Reuters Photo: Carlos Julio Martinez The United States will withdraw all remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela this week, the US State Department said late on Monday, citing the deteriorating situation in the country after months of political unrest.It followed Washington Jan. 24 decision to withdraw all dependents and reduce embassy staff to a minimum in the South American country hit by unrest over a contested presidential election.This decision reflects the deteriorating situat stanley cup ion in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of US diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on US policy, the State Department said in a statement.Story continues below this adIt did not give more details or set a day for when personnel would be withdrawn from the embassy in Caracas.Venezuela congress on Monday declared a 8220 tate of alarm over a five-day power blackout that has crippled the OPEC nation oil exports and left millions of citizens scrambling to find food and water.Venezuela also suspended school and business activities on Tuesday due to th stanley us e power blackout, Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a televised broadcast on Monday, the third such c stanley becher ancellation since power went out last week.The outage has added to discontent in a country alr Phbv France denies report that it could give up UN Security Council seat
In this file photo, debris litters a concert festival grounds after a mass shooting in Las Vegas. AP Photo/John Locher, File Legal action following the mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert is picking up with lawsuits filed Wednesday on behalf of 14 concertgoers, including some who were shot or injured trying to escape and one woman who is so traumatized that she has since mistaken the sound of rain for gunshots.The hotel-casino from where Stephen Paddock fired, concert organizers and the makers and sellers of a bump stanley fr stock gun accessory that enabled him to fire rapidly are named as defendants. The court filings argue that they all share blame for the worst mass shooting in recent US history.The 14 civil com stanley uk plaints, filed together in state co stanley usa urt in Las Vegas, follow at least three others filed since Paddock opened fire Oct. 1 from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds of others. The lawsuit seeks unspecific compensation for both physical and mental injuries.Story continues below this adThe challenge for mass-shooting lawsuits is clearing a high legal bar to prove someone other than the shooter bears any responsibility. Such litigation typically drags for years and can end with victims and their families receiving little to nothing.One of those suing, Elisha Seng, described in a phone interview haunting images she can ;t dispel _ of bullets thudding around her on the concert grounds and of turning to see
Venezuelan citizens living in Bogota protest against President Nicolas Maduro and the continuing power outage in Venezuela, in Bogota, Colombia, March 11, 2019. Reuters Photo: Carlos Julio Martinez The United States will withdraw all remaining diplomatic personnel from Venezuela this week, the US State Department said late on Monday, citing the deteriorating situation in the country after months of political unrest.It followed Washington Jan. 24 decision to withdraw all dependents and reduce embassy staff to a minimum in the South American country hit by unrest over a contested presidential election.This decision reflects the deteriorating situat stanley cup ion in Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of US diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on US policy, the State Department said in a statement.Story continues below this adIt did not give more details or set a day for when personnel would be withdrawn from the embassy in Caracas.Venezuela congress on Monday declared a 8220 tate of alarm over a five-day power blackout that has crippled the OPEC nation oil exports and left millions of citizens scrambling to find food and water.Venezuela also suspended school and business activities on Tuesday due to th stanley us e power blackout, Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a televised broadcast on Monday, the third such c stanley becher ancellation since power went out last week.The outage has added to discontent in a country alr Phbv France denies report that it could give up UN Security Council seat
In this file photo, debris litters a concert festival grounds after a mass shooting in Las Vegas. AP Photo/John Locher, File Legal action following the mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert is picking up with lawsuits filed Wednesday on behalf of 14 concertgoers, including some who were shot or injured trying to escape and one woman who is so traumatized that she has since mistaken the sound of rain for gunshots.The hotel-casino from where Stephen Paddock fired, concert organizers and the makers and sellers of a bump stanley fr stock gun accessory that enabled him to fire rapidly are named as defendants. The court filings argue that they all share blame for the worst mass shooting in recent US history.The 14 civil com stanley uk plaints, filed together in state co stanley usa urt in Las Vegas, follow at least three others filed since Paddock opened fire Oct. 1 from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds of others. The lawsuit seeks unspecific compensation for both physical and mental injuries.Story continues below this adThe challenge for mass-shooting lawsuits is clearing a high legal bar to prove someone other than the shooter bears any responsibility. Such litigation typically drags for years and can end with victims and their families receiving little to nothing.One of those suing, Elisha Seng, described in a phone interview haunting images she can ;t dispel _ of bullets thudding around her on the concert grounds and of turning to see