16 m. ago Trump sets his sights on Cuba as he threatens communist regime to make a deal 'before it is too late'

President Trump sent a clear message to Cuba Sunday morning over the country receiving oil and money following the capture of Venezuela's leader.

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3 h. ago Putin's week of 'humiliation' at the hands of Trump: Experts explain how Russian dictator has been 'put in a corner' by Atlantic ship raid and Maduro capture as US flexes its muscles around the world

Donald Trump has put Vladimir Putin 'in a corner' by taking Venezuela's leader prisoner and storming a Russian oil tanker this week, experts have said. 

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4 h. ago Trump move for Venezuela’s resources likely to weaken economic might of US | Heather Stewart

Oil is American president’s motivation but his concept of economic success feels as outdated as his music tastesThe word “loot” entered the English language from Hindi in the late 18th century, as the rapacious East India Company plundered its way across the subcontinent.It was a trading company, not a state – but it had the imprimatur of the English crown and its own large private army, mingling commerce and military force and opening the way for British imperial dominance of India. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Donald Trump 'draws up Greenland invasion plot' after Venezuela kidnap success

US President Donald Trump is reportedly becoming more and more seriously about his threats to take Greenland from Denmark by force, according to insiders

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9 h. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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9 h. ago Venezuela: when will its wonders be open to travellers once again?

The Man Who Pays His Way: Tourism can help rebuild the beleaguered nation

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10 h. ago Indian oil refiners see opportunity in Trump’s Venezuela action

Groups including Reliance stand to benefit as they seek low-cost alternative to sanctioned Russian supply

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15 h. ago US protests condemn ICE killing of Renee Good and ‘a regime that is willing to kill its own citizens’

In Philadelphia, protesters demanded ICE leave US communities and Trump end warmongering in VenezuelaOn a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner is barred from giving her trophy to Trump despite arguing 'he deserves it'

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has declared it impossible for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to give the Nobel Peace Prize over to Donald Trump.

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19 h. ago Trump's plans for attacking Iran are revealed including large

The president posted on Truth Social on Saturday that the US stands behind the Iranians who have been speaking out against repressive leaders for two weeks.

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20 h. ago Trump signs order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue in US accounts

The directive states these funds should be used in Venezuela to help create “peace, prosperity and stability”

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21 h. ago A week in photos from Venezuela after U.S. strike removed its president

Venezuelans navigated a tense week after U.S. forces captured former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

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27 h. ago Donald Trump wears 'Happy Trump' lapel pin while meeting oil executives about who will control Venezuela's energy industry

President Donald Trump showed off a jaunty new pin at talks on the future of Venezuela's oil.

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28 h. ago Trump’s ‘morality’ raises nightmare of ghosts past in Colombia

As Trump threatens more attacks on south America and is not bound by international law, he is causing real fear in the region, reports world affairs editor Sam Kiley from Bogota, Colombia

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29 h. ago The truth about how many drugs in the US come from Venezuela | Debunked

Donald Trump has claimed “a lot of drugs” are coming out of Venezuela - but do the figures back up the president’s claims?

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33 h. ago Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisyThe attack on Venezuela and the seizure of its president was a shocking enough start to 2026, but it was only the next day, when the smoke had dispersed and Donald Trump was flying from Florida to Washington DC in triumph, that it became clear the world had entered a new era.The US president was leaning on a bulkhead on Air Force One, in a charcoal suit and gold tie, regaling reporters with inside details of the abduction of Nicolás Maduro. He claimed his government was “in charge” of Venezuela and that US companies were poised to extract the country’s oil wealth. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Trump news at a glance: president pitches oil companies on major extractions in Venezuela

‘We’re going to be extracting numbers in terms of oil like few people have seen,’ Trump said – key US politics stories from 9 January 2025Donald Trump had a message for fossil-fuel companies on Friday: Venezuela is now “open for business” as the US president vowed the country’s resources would be extracted for the benefit of the US, oil companies – and “some” money for Venezuelans.At a roundtable press conference at the White House with more than a dozen oil executives, including leaders from Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, the US president doubled down on claims that Nicolás Maduro’s arrest presents American oil companies with an unprecedented opportunity for extraction. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Photos show relatives waiting outside prisons as Venezuela frees a handful of detainees

Relatives of jailed opposition figures, activists and journalists waited outside Venezuelan prisons as the government began releasing a small number of detainees nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces.

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38 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Intergalactic Lefty bedwetters like Rory Stewart are so deranged by hatred of Trump they're blind to the fact that, from Venezuela to Iran, he's on the side of the good guys

This time, they say, he has torn it, writes BORIS JOHNSON. In all his outrageous provocation, Donald Trump has never sent liberal politicos into such fits of pearl-clutching indignation.

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38 h. ago Militia men hunting traitors and families risking kidnap if they leave the house... if Trump thought abducting Maduro would make him a hero in oil

Citizens leave their homes only if they have no choice. Each time they do, they risk kidnap, torture and death in the regime's El Helicoide, the brutalist prison that looms menacingly over the city.

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