6 h. ago Olympics chief admits she has not spoken to US president Trump about LA 2028 Games

Kirsty Coventry steers clear of global politics in buildupOrganisers will meet with vice-president JD VanceThe International Olympic Committee has yet to establish formal communications with the US president Donald Trump on preparations for the Los Angeles Games in 2028, the IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, has confirmed.Trump has been speaking in Davos in Switzerland after a turbulent start to 2026 during which he has suggested he will invade Greenland, threatened a trade war with Europe and ousted the Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Denmark sends 'substantial contribution' of troops to Greenland amid growing tension with US as Trump refuses to rule out invasion

Denmark has deployed additional troops to Greenland as tensions escalate over President Donald Trump's comments questioning Copenhagen's ability to defend the Arctic territory.

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42 h. ago How the Greenland deployment of a few European troops enraged Trump

Military exercise was ostensibly to show support for Arctic security, but US president saw it as a provocation

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5 d. ago NATO allies to deploy troops to Greenland in just HOURS as Trump makes fresh threat

Germany, Canada and the Netherlands are sending forces to Greenland for military exercises amid growing tensions over Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of the Arctic island

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5 d. ago Royal Mail workers in London condemn war against Venezuela and express solidarity with US workers against Trump

Royal Mail workers in London condemn war against Venezuela and express solidarity with US workers against Trump  World Socialist Web Site

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6 d. ago France latest to confirm Nato troop deployment after Trump says Greenland ‘very important’ for US national security – Europe live

Múte B. Egede, Greenland’s deputy prime minister, said more soldiers were expected in the coming daysFrance is the latest country to confirm a military deployment to Greenland as Denmark and allies are desperate to show US president Donald Trump that they take the Arctic security seriously and are capable of defending it if needed.Greenlandic deputy prime minister, Múte B. Egede, said that more soldiers were expected in the coming days, joined by “more military flights and ships” as part of hastily convened “Operation Convince Trump” “Operation Arctic Endurance.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Republicans defeat Senate resolution to stop Trump’s strikes in Venezuela after frantic White House lobbying

Trump flips Josh Hawley, Todd Young back to his side after telling voters to never support them again

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8 d. ago Trump team works behind the scenes to get Congress to halt restrictions on further Venezuela attacks

Final vote on Democrats’ resolution to invoke War Powers Act is set for Wednesday

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1 week ago Britain in talks to deploy troops to Greenland as Trump threatens to seize Arctic island

British officials have held discussions with counterparts in Germany and France in recent days

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1 week ago Maduro is gone, but his regime is intact. The circumstances tell a story | Alejandro Velasco

In the early fray of foreign interventions, evidence is largely circumstantial. But here the circumstances tell a powerful storyAs late as Saturday afternoon, fires continued to smolder in parts of Caracas. Residents throughout the city, stunned and anxious, filled grocery stores and gas stations, stocking up before a future unknown. Everywhere the question hung in the air like the smoke still clouding Venezuela’s capital: what next?After months of military buildup, deadly strikes at sea and a looming ground war, the United States made good on its threats to attack Venezuela in a dramatic overnight raid that ended with Nicolás Maduro in a New York City jail cell. Yet 48 hours later, little else appeared different in Caracas: Maduro’s inner circle remained in place; state institutions remained in their control; streets were calm, if tense, while authorities called on people to return to their daily lives. In other words: move along, nothing to see here.Alejandro Velasco is an associa...

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2 w. ago Senate Democrats attempt to curb Trump’s warmaking abilities after Venezuela raid

President said over the weekend that he wants the U.S. to take over Greenland and repeated his threat of using military force

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2 w. ago Britain signs historic deal to deploy troops inside Ukraine – with Trump’s blessing

Starmer and Macron commit to military guarantee of any peace deal with Russia

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago 'I'm a prisoner of war': Venezuela's deposed leader Maduro appears in New York court after being captured by Trump

The captured Venezuelan dictator told a judge ‘I am a decent man’

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2 w. ago Nicolás Maduro appears in Manhattan court; US ambassador tells UN there is ‘no war in Venezuela’ – live

Ousted president in Manhattan courthouse where the full list of charges will be read; Mike Waltz says US is ‘not occupying a country’ after strikes on VenezuelaDelcy Rodríguez strikes conciliatory tone with US after Trump warningA UK minister would not be drawn into saying whether his government believes the US capture of Venezuela’s president was influenced by the country’s rich oil reserves.Asked on Sky News why he thought Donald Trump had captured Nicolás Maduro and said America would “run” Venezuela, Home Office minister Mike Tapp said:This is for Donald Trump to answer, and I think he has said in his press conference, which I watched with interest around narco-terrorism and that threat. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How Venezuela’s military is DWARFED by US firepower with just 200 warplanes vs Trump’s 13,000 after Maduro captured

DONALD Trump’s administration insists the US is not at war with Venezuela, even as America’s overwhelming military strength exposes just how outmatched Nicolás Maduro’s forces really are. US officials say the operation that led to Maduro’s capture was a targeted strike against narcotrafficking and criminal networks, not a conflict with the Venezuelan people. But the...

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2 w. ago Foreign Secretary to address MPs on US operation in Venezuela today as 'fog of war' looms

President Maduro is due to appear in court in New York later today on charges of 'narco-terrorism'

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2 w. ago America is at war with drug cartels not Venezuela, US insists after capturing Maduro

Venezuelan leader will be held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of his first court appearance, which could be as early as Monday

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2 w. ago Trump says US will run Venezuela: American president begins picking cabinet members and says troops could be deployed after Maduro was seized in raid

Maduro was in a New York jail Saturday, hours after American special forces seized and flew him out of his country.

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2 w. ago Eagle eyed viewers spot odd detail in background of Trump's Mar

Trump revealed on Saturday what he described as an overnight 'large-scale strike' in Venezuela, declaring that US forces had captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

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