4 h. ago Donald Trump says 'thank you' as up to '50 million barrels of oil' to be turned over from Venezuela

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to the United States following Maduro's capture

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5 h. ago Donald Trump says Venezuela to turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to US

US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela will be handing over between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to the United States in a bold announcement on social media

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5 h. ago Donald Trump says Venezuela to turn over '50 million barrels' of oil to US as he takes control

Trump said the 30 and 50 million barrels of oil will be sold at its market price and that he will control the money, which he said will be used to benefit the people of both countries

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7 h. ago Watch in full: Trump speaks as European leaders push back on Greenland threats

Watch as Donald Trump spoke at a House Republicans retreat on Tuesday, 6 January, as European leaders insisted they would “not stop defending” Greenland’s territorial integrity in the face of continued threats from the US president to annex it.

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8 h. ago What’s next in deposed Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro’s criminal case

Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life

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10 h. ago UK tourists stuck on P&O cruise ship in Caribbean after Donald Trump's strike on Venezuela

'The feeling on the ship is not great'

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12 h. ago Trump's Venezuela gamble hailed a success as exclusive poll reveals how many Americans back Maduro's capture by Delta Force

More Americans support President Donald Trump's decision to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro than don't, new polling from the Daily Mail has found.

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13 h. ago 'Cowardly, craven approach': Labour infighting erupts as MPs attack ministers over Venezuela response

Labour backbenchers have rounded on Sir Keir Starmer and his cabinet after their refusals to criticise President Donald Trump for his military intervention in Venezuela

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15 h. ago Watch live: Trump speaks as European leaders push back on Greenland threats

Watch live as Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans retreat on Tuesday, 6 January, as European leaders insisted they would “not stop defending” Greenland’s territorial integrity in the face of continued threats from the US president to annex it.

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15 h. ago Cruise ship carrying Brits circling Barbados over and over after Trump Venezuela raid

A cruise ship carrying British tourists and circling Barbados has been left "in limbo" after Donald Trump dramatically invaded Venezuela to remove leader Nicolas Maduro.

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16 h. ago Furious Brits stuck in Caribbean crusie 'limbo' after Trump's bomb attack

Brits are among holidaymakers stranded off the coast of Barbados on a cruise ship following Donald Trump's military action again Venezuela

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16 h. ago Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war | Simon Jenkins

Last week’s events in Caracas come in a long line of American interventions. The White House has awesome power and is never shy of using itIt is starting to trickle out. Last week in Caracas was not an invasion, it was a putsch. It was the militarised kidnap of one ruler to aid his more amenable deputy into power. Since April last year, according to reports, vice-president and now interim president Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge – the president of the Venezuelan national assembly – have been dealing secretly with Washington. This has reportedly been via that hotspot of informal diplomacy, Qatar.We have yet to know the details. But the rumours are plausible that last week’s episode was staged to look outrageous, including Delcy Rodríguez’s initial condemnation of it as atrocious. President Nicolás Maduro was handed over to the Americans swiftly and peacefully. The only slip was Trump describing Delcy as “quite gracious” before she was hastily sworn into office soon after the r...

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19 h. ago Brits disapprove of Donald Trump's Venezuela raid, poll shows

A YouGov poll found 51 per cent of Britons disapprove of the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a military operation.

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19 h. ago Kemi Badenoch says Donald Trump's US was 'morally right' to snatch 'brutal' Venezuelan dictator Maduro from his lair in daring raid

The Conservative leader cited her upbringing in military-ruled Nigeria as she backed the shock move by the United States at the weekend.

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20 h. ago Trump celebrates one of his biggest victories in Truth Social post... his TikTok numbers

President Donald Trump switches focus from Venezuela to promote viewing figures on social video app

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24 h. ago Why Donald Trump's Venezuela raid raises alarming questions about US intentions towards Greenland

Donald Trump needs to respect the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela and the people of Greenland

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24 h. ago Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones

The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe himAs Venezuela’s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid symptoms of a declining empire. That may sound counterintuitive. After all, the US has kidnapped a foreign leader, and Donald Trump has announced that he will “run” Venezuela. Surely this looks less like decay than intoxication: a superpower high on its own force.But Trump’s great virtue, if it can be called that, is candour. Previous US presidents draped naked self-interest in the language of “democracy” and “human rights”. Trump dispenses with the costume. In 2023, he boasted: “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.” And this was no off-the-cuff remark. The logic of an oil grab, and much more besides, is laid out plainly in Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy. Continue ...

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25 h. ago Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci

The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they’ll be treated as suchThere is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of the US/Israel attack on Iran, Europeans now hesitate to condemn the US’s audacious military operation to bring about regime change in Venezuela. With few notable exceptions – such as Spain, the Netherlands and Norway – most European leaders have fudged their response. Spain, in fact, has acted without its EU partners, condemning the US attack alongside a group of Latin American countries. European governments seem unable to utter in the same breath that, although Nicolás Maduro was an illegitimate dictator, the US attack to topple him is a gross violation of international law.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at least...

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27 h. ago Trump says US will have to pay oil companies to rebuild Venezuela's aging infrastructure as he declares HIMSELF in charge of ambitious 18

Donald Trump said that the US must 'nurse' Venezuela back to health for the foreseeable future and may offer taxpayer-funded subsidies to oil companies to help rebuild.

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28 h. ago As Trump is warned Greenland raid will finish Nato, who could the US President target next?

Following his rendition of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump has made brash threats to intervene militarily against several nations across the world. 

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