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🇻🇪 Venezuela seized control of a gang-run prison in a military operation involving 11,000 troops. Tocorón prison, which had been run by inmates for years, was serving as the headquarters for Venezuela’s most powerful gang, the Tren de Aragua. Inmates were allowed to roam freely inside the facility, which featured a pool, a nightclub, and a mini-zoo. The prison’s leader, Tren de Aragua head Hector Guerrero Flores, is reportedly famous in the surrounding area for both his ruthless brutality and his charitable works. Following the successful raid, Venezuelan officials said all Tocorón inmates will be transferred to a more secure facility.

🇮🇳 Indian lawmakers approved a new bill reserving one-third of all lower Parliamentary seats for women. The measure, which PM Narendra Modi is expected to sign into law in the coming days, passed both chambers of India’s Parliament with near-unanimous support. Within the 33% of seats reserved for women, there will also be a minimum for those from tribal communities and those at the bottom of the Hindu caste ladder. Women currently make up around 13% of India’s Parliament.

🖼️ A 25-year effort to return artwork stolen by Nazis is seeing results. In recent weeks, nearly a dozen artworks by Austrian painter Egon Schiele have been identified and returned to heirs of Jewish art collector Fritz Grünbaum, who was forced to surrender his collection to the Nazis during WWII. At least six of the artworks, valued between $500,000 and $2.8 million, will be auctioned off this year to fund the Grünbaum Fischer Foundation for young musicians. Manhattan prosecutors are also investigating at least a dozen more Schiele pieces allegedly stolen by Nazis and trafficked through New York.