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The most advanced US aircraft carrier - USS Gerald R. Ford - is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela within days with thousands of sailors on board

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Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has urged Donald Trump not to open what he said would be an Afghanistan-style “forever war” as the US military continues to build up in the region.