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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on Russia and the Vatican to help fend off a U.S. “military threat,” and said he will soon go to Moscow to visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Vatican envoy visiting Moscow earlier in the day had called on Russia to help ease tensions in Venezuela, where Maduro has faced months of deadly mass protests by people who blame him for the Latin American country’s deep economic crisis.

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