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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — AP Exclusive: A senior administration official says the U.S. has opened up secret communications with Venezuela's socialist party boss as members of President Nicolás Maduro's inner circle seek guarantees they won't face retribution if they cede to growing demands to remove him. The U.S. official told The Associated Press that Diosdado Cabello, considered the most-powerful man in Venezuela after Maduro, met last month in Caracas with someone in close contact with the Trump administration.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Scores of Afghan families are burying their dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a dancing, clapping crowd at a wedding, killing 63 people and wounding more than 180. The local Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility. The event hall's owner said Sunday that his workers had continued to find body parts in the shattered venue. Many Afghans have questioned just how safe they'll be under an approaching peace deal between the U.S. and the Taliban.
GIBRALTAR (AP) — An Iranian supertanker hauling $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects to be tied to a sanctioned organization lifted its anchor and begun moving away from Gibraltar late on Sunday. The trail left by GPS data on Marinetraffic.com, a vessel tracking service, showed the Iran-flagged Adrian Darya 1, previously known as Grace 1, moving shortly before midnight.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state's first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by devastating Hurricane Katrina, has died. After struggling for years with cancer, Blanco died Sunday in hospice care in Lafayette. She was 76.
DENVER (AP) — After long cleanups costing billions of dollars, the US government has converted a handful of nuclear and chemical weapons sites into nature preserves. Rare mammals, birds and fish are thriving on wildlife refuges that had a former life as weapons facilities. But some critics say dangerous levels of pollution were left behind.
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