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Now playing Next World News Venezuela: alone or united with the US and Cuba? Venezuela is Cuba’s best friend and vice versa. But since the historic announcement from Havana yesterday, Nicolas Maduro seems to be alone. On a 18/12/2014
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Now playing Next Indonesia Village destroyed by deadly landslide near Jakarta, Indonesia Rescuers have been struggling to reach more than 100 missing people on Indonesia’s main island of Java. Torrential rain triggered a landslide that 13/12/2014
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