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Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has begun to free prisoners jailed under Maduro, saying a large number would be released in a gesture of appeasement for which Washington took credit

Peter Mandelson says he would only apologise for his own ties if he had known about Epsteins actions or been complicit

Venezuela is Cubas biggest oil supplier, but since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces, Mr. Trump has successfully pressed interim President Delcy Rodriguez to send Venezuelan oil to the United States

The meeting will include Finance Ministers or Cabinet Ministers from the G7 advanced economies, the European Union, Australia, India, South Korea and Mexico, the official said

Strong opposition is certain from Wall Street and the credit card companies, which donated heavily to his 2024 campaign and to support his second-term agenda

Lawmakers at one point rushing to the front of the assembly to chant: Death to America!

Kelash Kohli was shot at for allegedly constructing a shelter in the land owned by Nizamani in Talhar village of Badin district on January 4

Bessent, who controls the dominant U.S. shareholding in the IMF and World Bank, said that the two institutions had already reached out to him about Venezuela

Waving flags and placards with the face of the moustachioed ex-leader and his wife Cilia, around 1,000 protesters rallied in the west of Caracas and a few hundred in the eastern Petare district far smaller than demonstrations Mr. Maduro's camp has mustered in the past.

The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading by a huge margin after winning 90 of the 102 lower house seats contested in the first phase on December 28, 2025, which saw only 52.13% voter turnout, much lower than elections in 2020 and 2015

The decision is final and stands for all time, it said, after Maria Machado said she'd like to give or share the prize with Donald Trump

Why has U.S. President Donald Trump moved to withdraw the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? What will be the financial impact? What will it mean for international cooperation on climate change?

Two major events the U.S. capture of Venezuelas President and the ICE shooting in Minneapolis highlight the Trump administrations twin priorities foreign intervention and strict immigration enforcement; Rubio and Vance represent different strands of the MAGA movement

Authorities say a person was in custody Saturday after six people were killed in a series of related shootings in eastern Mississippi

The Trump administration has sought to paint Good as a domestic terrorist, insisting that the agent who fatally shot her was acting in self-defense.

Uncertainty looms over Bangladesh's participation in the T20 World Cup following a request by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to the International Cricket Council to move their World Cup matches out of India over safety concerns

Of a total 53 deaths recorded, 25 people died due to a cholera outbreak, the agency said, while six others died from anemia and other complications related to malnutrition

Greenlands party leaders have rejected President Donald Trumps calls for the U.S. to take control of the island

The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space, says Communications and Digital Minister

The four analytical approaches can help us contextualise not just the Greenland case, but also the emerging multipolar world of might makes right

Temperatures soared past 40 C as a heatwave blanketed the state of Victoria this week, with hot winds fanning some of the most dangerous fire weather seen since the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020

Mr. Trump said the U.S. must acquire Greenland, even though it already has a military presence on the island under a 1951 agreement, because such deals are not enough to guarantee Greenland's defence

Earlier in the day, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) reiterated Indias commitment to a balanced trade pact with the United States

Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that during his visit to the UAE from January 05 to 06, General Dwivedi held wide-ranging discussions with senior leadership of the UAE Armed Forces, including the Commander of the UAE Land Forces

The Chinese-led drills were organized last year under the BRICS bloc of developing nations and South Africa's armed forces said they will bring members of the bloc together to practice maritime safety and anti-piracy operations and deepen cooperation

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused protesters of acting on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump

A Japanese deep-sea scientific drilling boat called the Chikyu will set sail for the remote island of Minami Torishima in the Pacific, where surrounding waters are believed to contain a rich trove of valuable minerals

Syrias Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in Aleppo

This will be Mr. Trump's first meeting with Ms. Machado, who said earlier this week that she hadn't spoken to the U.S. leader since she won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2025

There was no immediate independent corroboration of that account or of any gang affiliation of the vehicles occupants

Republicans have blocked all of the measures, but the last vote was just 49-51, as two senators from Mr. Trumps party joined Democrats in backing a resolution in November

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that Denmark obviously had not done a proper job in securing Greenland and that Trump is willing to go as far as he has to to defend American interests in the Arctic

Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterdays meetings of both countries representatives in Paris discussed complex issues from the framework under discussion to end the nearly four-year war

Russia warns that the deployment of Western military units, military facilities, depots and other infrastructure on Ukrainian territory will be classified as foreign intervention

European leaders, U.S. envoys announced that the security guarantees for Kyiv would include U.S.-led monitoring mechanism, a European multinational force that would be deployed if a ceasefire could be reached

U.S. prosecutors charged Chen in October with conspiracy charges alleging he masterminded a multinational cyber fraud network

U.S. Ambassador-designate Sergio Gor, who takes charge on January 12, 2026 has said ending Indias Russian oil imports is a top priority

Many of these organisations focus on climate, labor, migration, and other issues the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and woke initiatives.

Nestle said that no illnesses or symptoms have been confirmed that were tied to any of the recalled products

The junta has waged a pre-vote offensive, clawing back territory and hammering areas beyond its reach with air strikes, but concedes elections cannot happen in around one in seven constituencies