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World in Brief: US Envoy in Venezuela, Myanmar Crisis Deepens

US Envoy Arrives in Venezuela to Reopen Diplomatic Mission After Seven Years

Laura Dogu, the top United States envoy to Venezuela, arrived in Caracas on Saturday, January 31, 2026, to reopen a US diplomatic mission after seven years of severed ties, according to Al Jazeera. Dogu announced her arrival in a post on X, stating, "My team and I are ready to work."

The reopening comes almost seven years after diplomatic relations were cut. Al Jazeera reported that the move signals a potential shift in US-Venezuelan relations.

In other news from the US, a federal judge ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Texas, Al Jazeera reported. US District Judge Fred Biery ruled Liam Conejo Ramos's detention as illegal, condemning what he described as a "perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty by some among us." The detention followed an immigration raid in a Minneapolis suburb on January 20, 2026.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to avoid involvement in protests in Democrat-run cities unless federal assistance is requested, according to Al Jazeera. The announcement followed weeks of protests sparked by a large deployment of Border Patrol and ICE agents to Minneapolis and the killing of two US citizens by federal agents there.

Internationally, fighting continued in the Russia-Ukraine war. According to Al Jazeera, Russian attacks on Ukraine killed one person and wounded seven others in the Dnipropetrovsk region. High-rise buildings, homes, shops, and cafes were also damaged. Shelling in the Zaporizhia region wounded another person and destroyed three residential buildings and 12 homes. In the Donetsk region, at least two people were also affected by the ongoing conflict. These events mark day 1,438 of the war.

In Myanmar, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned of a "deepening crisis" five years after the military coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi, Sky News reported. The coup, which took place on February 1, 2021, overturned "the will of the people" and removed their political freedom, Cooper stated.

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