US President Donald Trump’s administration said Wednesday it intends to dictate the decisions of Venezuela’s interim leaders and control the country’s oil sales “indefinitely” after toppling Nicolas Maduro.
The United States has started an operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic after it evaded a partial blockade around Venezuela, multiple US media outlets said Wednesday.
Washington and Kyiv teams in Paris were on Wednesday expected to tackle Ukraine talks’ “most difficult issues” including territory following a breakthrough in European-led negotiations, Ukraine’s leader said.
The Syrian army began shelling Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods on Wednesday, after the deadline given for civilians to leave the area had passed, an AFP correspondent said.
The Syrian Army Operations Command announced that all Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo are considered legitimate military targets.
The new Chinese white paper on arms control represents a significant shift in Beijing’s approach to regional security, especially in the Korean Peninsula, as it reveals a reset of Chinese strategic prioritization, with a clear retreat from the rhetoric of nuclear non-proliferation in favor of a focus on stability and countering American deterrence.
Iran’s military chief warned on Wednesday that Iran will not stand by and allow itself to be threatened by outside powers, after the United States and Israel backed anti-government protests.
As protesters and security forces clashed, tear gas fired during demonstrations in Tehran accidentally drifted towards a hospital, Iranian media reported late Tuesday.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday he had urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him curb Pyongyang’s nuclear program and suggested a freeze in its development of weapons of mass destruction was “feasible” with the right conditions.
Yemeni separatist leader Aidaros Alzubidi has been removed from government for “committing high treason”, the chairman of the internationally recognized body holding executive power said on Wednesday.
