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Brazil’s government on Saturday condemned the US military attack on Venezuela and the capture of its leader as the crossing of “an unacceptable line,” while Brazilian officials were closely watching any unusual movement of refugees at the border with its neighbor. “These acts represent a grave affront to Venezuela’
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North Korea fired several ballistic missiles from its capital Pyongyang toward the sea off its east coast at around 7:50 a.m. local time on Sunday, South Korea’s military said. The first launch of North Korea’s ballistic missiles in two months comes as South Korean President Lee
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that he was pleased to see the end of President Nicolas Maduro’s rule in Venezuela and wanted a smooth transition to a government that better reflected the will of Venezuelans. “We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia should help oversee the change in power in Venezuela, after the capture of President Nicolas Maduro by US armed forces. “The transition to come must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan
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Venezuelans on Saturday scrambled to understand who was in charge of their country after the US military captured President Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman who had outlasted a botched coup attempt, several army mutinies, mass protests and economic sanctions in the vast nation of 29 million. “What will happen tomorrow?
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday acknowledged the economic demands of protesters in Iran, where demonstrations have spread to more than two dozen cities, even as he warned there would be no quarter for “rioters.” The protests began on Sunday as an expression of discontent over high prices and
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived Saturday evening at a military base in the United States and was transferred to New York City, after his capture by US forces in Caracas. FBI agents surrounded Maduro as he descended from a US government plane and slowly escorted him along the tarmac at
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South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung arrived in China on Sunday, eager to boost economic ties with Seoul’s largest trading partner while keeping a lid on potentially explosive issues such as Taiwan. Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his four-day
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Britain’s and France’s air forces conducted a joint operation on Saturday evening to bomb a suspected underground arms cache previously used by the Daesh group in Syria, Britain’s defense ministry said. Western aircraft have been conducting patrols to stop a resurgence of the Daesh militant group that
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Cambodia called on neighboring Thailand on Saturday to pull out its forces from areas Phnom Penh claims as its own, one week since a truce halted deadly clashes along their disputed border. The decades-old dispute between the Southeast Asian neighbors erupted into military clashes several times last year, with fighting
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro after launching a “large scale strike” on the South American country. “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along
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Violence surrounding protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy killed two other people, authorities said Saturday, raising the death toll in the demonstrations to at least 10 as they showed no signs of stopping. The new deaths follow US President Donald Trump warning Iran on Friday
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Russian authorities said Friday that the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike they said struck a café in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region rose to 27 people. Kyiv denied attacking civilian targets. Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman of Russia’s main criminal investigation agency, the Investigative Committee, said
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Ukraine is hosting security advisers for crunch talks on Saturday as Kyiv insists negotiations are zeroing in on a deal, while Russia claims a deadly New Year strike torpedoed the efforts. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said around 15 countries would attend the talks, along with representatives from the European Union
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Scores of internally displaced people in Yemen have received healthcare services at a mobile clinic operated by Saudi aid agency KSrelief. From Dec. 10-16, 71 people visited the facility at Waalan Camp in Hajjah governorate. Of those, 24 were treated at the communicable disease control clinic, 10 at the emergency
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US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June. At least seven people have been killed so far in violence surrounding the demonstrations,