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American singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have hard-launched their relationship on social media, laying to rest months of dating rumors. Perry, a 13-time Grammy nominee, posted on Saturday a video on Instagram that showed her eating sushi in Tokyo as Trudeau, with his arm behind her, looked on with an amorous gaze. “Tokyo times on tour and more,” Perry wrote in the caption of a carousel that included the video and also a selfie with Trudeau. The pop star was performing last week in Saitama, about 15 miles north of Tokyo, as part of her...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)-On the fifth anniversary of a coup that briefly toppled him, President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers who disagree with his government's socialist leanings should leave the military.Chavez marked the anniversary of his 2002 ouster repeating his accusation that the U.S. was behind the coup and telling troops to be on alert for new plots against the government."Today every commander at every level is obliged to repeat, from the soul and raising the flag high, this slogan: 'Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!" Chavez told an audience of soldiers in a televised speech. "If some feel uncomfortable with this,...