56 m. ago You can’t give Nobel Peace Prize to someone else, committee tells winner Machado before Trump meeting

Warning comes after U.S. president says he would be ‘honored’ to accept prize if offered by Venezuelan opposition leader during meeting in Washington

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40 h. ago Trump tells Denmark ‘we can do this the easy way or hard way’ as he claims US needs Greenland to stop China and Russia

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has told Denmark he can take Greenland the easy way or the hard way. The US president said he was "going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not" in a White House press conference on Friday evening. Trump insisted that he needed the strategically important island or "Russia...

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41 h. ago US oil giant ExxonMobil tells Trump Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’

Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country

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42 h. ago Donald Trump says the US has already taken 30 million barrels of oil out of Venezuela and tells firms they are to deal with America as he meets with executives at the White House

The oil - worth around $4bn - was taken yesterday, with most of the proceeds set to go to the United States, though some would be allocated to Venezuela, the president said.

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46 h. ago Live: Exxon tells Trump Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without big changes

US president seeks to win commitments from oil executives to invest up to $100bn

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46 h. ago Exxon tells Trump Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without big changes

US president seeks to win commitments from oil executives to invest up to $100bn

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50 h. ago Starmer tells Merz and Macron that Nato must 'step up' Arctic operations as they scramble to stop Trump grabbing Greenland

Keir Starmer discussed the brewing row over US threats with Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz in a phone call.

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52 h. ago Iran's Supreme Leader threatens Trump and predicts 'arrogant' US President will be 'overthrown' as he blames him for huge anti

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would 'not back down' in the face of mass protests that have spread across the country

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53 h. ago Iran's rattled Supreme Leader tells Trump he will be 'overthrown' and vows not to 'back down' as violent protests spread and regime battles for survival

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would 'not back down' in the face of mass protests that have spread across the country

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3 d. ago Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom | Judith Levine

Trump’s actions at home tell a different story – and they parallel many of Maduro’s own repressive movesWhatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not about the freedom of the Venezuelan people.If Trump cared about that, he would not have lifted the temporary protective status of the roughly 600,000 Venezuelan refugees in the US, the very people fleeing the tyranny and economic instability he is now supposedly liberating them from.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump yuks it up with House Republicans and predicts ‘epic midterm victory’ while also bragging about his Venezuela attack

Trump asked House GOP members to tell him ‘what the hell's going on with the mind of the public’ amid flagging poll numbers

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5 d. ago Europe tells Trump to back off Greenland as leaders sign off on 'binding commitment' to protect Ukraine from Russian attacks: Live updates

LIVEBLOG: Follow the latest developments from Paris where Ukraine's allies meet for talks about the country's security and a potential ceasefire with Russia.

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7 d. ago After Trump’s illegal Venezuela coup, there are two dangers: he is emboldened, but has no clue what comes next | Rajan Menon

The US president used largely fictitious charges to seize control, but can’t know how Venezuelans will react. He may also overstep now as regards IranDuring his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end “forever wars”, abandon “nation-building” interventions and focus instead on reviving a US economy that, in his telling, had been deindustrialised by a floodtide of imports. Though Trump’s electoral victories cannot be attributed to any one thing, his “America first” narrative certainly struck a chord.But Trump’s use of force to seize the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, his full-bore support for Israel’s demolition of Gaza and his bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment installations show that he’s no less willing than his predecessors to resort to military interventions.Rajan Menon is a professor emeritus of international relations at the City College of New York and a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Continue ...

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1 week ago Trump kicks off New Year’s Eve celebrations by telling fellow Republican to ‘rot in hell’

The president posted a message defending jailed former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters and blasted those who had prosecuted her

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1 week ago Famed Peruvian psychics predict 'serious illness' for Donald Trump, warn of natural disasters and foresee global wars in annual New Year's fortune telling ritual

As well as Trump and Maduro, shamans waved posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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1 week ago Trump says ‘there’ll be hell to pay’ if Hamas does not disarm as he meets Netanyahu at Mar

US president says group will have ‘very short period’ to disarm and that he and Israeli prime minister ‘don’t agree on the West Bank 100%’ as pair meetBenjamin Netanyahu is expected to tell Donald Trump on Monday that Hamas must return the remains of the last Israeli hostage left in Gaza before the next stages of the stalled ceasefire can be implemented, Israeli officials and analysts say.The trip comes amid a new push by officials in Washington to force concessions from Israel to allow progress towards a second stage of the ceasefire in Gaza, which began in October after two years of devastating war.He feels he has a number of cards to play yet and the remains of Gvili is the easiest one to play now but there are others.Netanyahu knows exactly what he wants for Christmas – more of the same. Israeli troops stay in 51% of Gaza, periodically striking Hamas without the shadow of withdrawal looming over him. None of this requires a denunciation of the [Trump] plan itself and Trump can v...

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1 week ago Trump says reconstruction of Gaza will begin ‘soon’ as he meets Netanyahu at Mar

US president says he and Israeli prime minister will discuss ‘five major subjects’ and Gaza will be among themBenjamin Netanyahu is expected to tell Donald Trump on Monday that Hamas must return the remains of the last Israeli hostage left in Gaza before the next stages of the stalled ceasefire can be implemented, Israeli officials and analysts say.The trip comes amid a new push by officials in Washington to force concessions from Israel to allow progress towards a second stage of the ceasefire in Gaza, which began in October after two years of devastating war.He feels he has a number of cards to play yet and the remains of Gvili is the easiest one to play now but there are others.Netanyahu knows exactly what he wants for Christmas – more of the same. Israeli troops stay in 51% of Gaza, periodically striking Hamas without the shadow of withdrawal looming over him. None of this requires a denunciation of the [Trump] plan itself and Trump can very easily justify Israel’s extended stay...

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2 w. ago Gene Simmons tells public ‘shut your piehole’ after question about Trump

Gene Simmons said “everybody shut your piehole” after he was questioned about his connection to Donald Trump.

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2 w. ago You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has repeatedly said should be under US control.“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again: you cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement on Monday, adding that “fundamental principles” were at stake. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Uri Geller keeps Donald Trump's hair in 'bulletproof glass cage' and could clone him

EXCLUSIVE: While bending our ear about aliens and the likelihood of intergalactic peace, the ever-eccentric Uri Geller took a moment to tell us about Donald Trump's infamous blonde hair

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