China called on the United States on Sunday to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after Washington carried out a strike on Caracas and captured the leader.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in a New York jail Saturday, hours after American special forces seized and flew him out of his country — which Donald Trump said would come under effective US control.
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 military was behind a series of strikes against the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday, US media reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country believed it would win in Ukraine, where Moscow has led an almost four-year offensive, in his New Year’s Eve address on Wednesday.
China’s President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that “reunification…is unstoppable” as he addressed the nation shortly after Beijing’s military announced the end of live-fire drills around Taiwan.
Iranian students staged street protests in Tehran, a day after the capital’s shopkeepers demonstrated against economic hardship and won a message of understanding from the president.
India has overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy — and officials hope to pass Germany within three years, the government’s end-of-year economic review calculates.
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday rebuffed accusations from Saudi Arabia that it was fanning the conflict in Yemen after Riyadh said it struck an Emirati weapons shipment destined for separatist forces.
Chair of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, on Tuesday demanded that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) withdraw its forces from Yemen within 24 hours, announcing the cancellation of the joint defense agreement between the two sides.
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