Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez said Tuesday that her country has received $300 million from a US sale of Venezuelan crude and she will use it to prop up her country’s battered currency, the bolivar.
The United States announced Tuesday that its forces seized another tanker in the Caribbean, the seventh ship apprehended since President Donald Trump announced a blockade to prevent sanctioned vessels going to or from Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not attend an emergency meeting of G7 nations to discuss the war in Ukraine that was proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron, but which the French leader later said would not take place this week.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed support for his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa, who launched an offensive against Washington’s erstwhile Kurdish allies, saying a “choir boy” could not handle the situation.
Iran has been pressing ahead with arrests following a wave of protests, according to local media and monitors, as the country faces international pressure over a crackdown rights groups said led to thousands of deaths under the cover of ongoing internet restrictions.
US President Donald Trump has boasted of a successful military operation inside Venezuela that resulted in the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. However, his remarks about the willingness of major US oil companies to commit vast investments required to revive Venezuela’s oil sector appear premature and unrealistic.
US President Donald Trump shared a message he received from French President Emmanuel Macron on his Truth Social account, in which Macron wrote, “I don’t understand what you’re doing about Greenland.”
Negotiations have collapsed between the Syrian president and the chief of the country’s Kurdish-led forces, a Kurdish official told AFP, as the army deployed reinforcements to flashpoint areas in the north.
Donald Trump on Monday threatened 200 percent tariffs on French wine and champagne over France’s intentions to decline the US leader’s invitation to join his “Board of Peace.”
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday denied running secret prisons in southern Yemen following claims from Saudi-backed Yemeni officials that widened a rift between the Gulf powers.
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