20 minutes ago - Donald Trump has warned he is "very serious" about annexing Greenland – and has not ruled out taking the territory by force. The statements are not dissimilar to those the US president has made in the past, but after his administration's unprecedented military operation in Venezuela last weekend, alarm bells will be ringing louder in the vast Danish territory.

2 days ago - Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize winner had been sidelined by White House after US seized Maduro ... Donald Trump will host María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel peace prize winner, at the White House on Thursday for high-stakes talks on the oil-rich nation’s future following the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.

2 days ago - Meetings in Washington had failed ... Greenland. Venezuela is on the back burner for now, after Mr Trump took his lap of victory for illegally snatching Nicolás Maduro....

2 days ago - Donald Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and the Senate blocks a Venezuela war powers resolution.

5 days ago - It’s been a whirlwind year for Venezuela, and it’s just getting started. Over the weekend, the U.S. launched an incursion into Caracas, capturing the nation’s President Nicolás Maduro and leaving the country in a state of uncertainty over its political and economic future. The operation was the culmination of a monthslong military pressure campaign by the Trump Administration, which had been framed as an effort to stymie drug trafficking and so-called “narco-terrorism.” In the days since, the U.S.

3 days ago - Many Venezuelans inside the country may be too afraid to publicly cheer Mr. Maduro’s capture given the uncertainty of what happens next. On Saturday, Ms. Rodríguez gave a speech defiant of the Trump administration, saying that Mr.

4 days ago - Stephen Sestanovich is the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. How do Russian policymakers view President Donald Trump’s military action against Venezuela? Since U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro and his wife, much analysis—in both Russia and the West—has weighed the balance between obvious short-term costs and possible long-term benefits.

1 week ago - PROTECTING VENEZUELAN OIL REVENUE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency to safeguard Venezuelan oil revenue held in U.S. Treasury accounts from attachment or judicial process, ensuring these ...

4 days ago - In the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife by US military personnel.

1 week ago - “US citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise caution when traveling by road,” the alert added, urging citizens to depart immediately now that some international flights from Venezuela have restarted. Speaking to the New York Times last week, Donald Trump said he would like to visit Venezuela in the future after having claimed the US was “running” the South American country after removing its leaders with a deadly night-time assault on Caracas.

2 weeks ago - President Trump says the U.S. will now "run" Venezuela after capturing its leader. Here's how the politics could play out at home.

2 weeks ago - Florida's two senators and a House lawmaker, all Republicans, are commending and defending the Trump administration's actions over the weekend in Venezuela. "When I got the phone call early, very early, Saturday morning from Marco Rubio, I was ecstatic. I was always hoping this was going to happen," Sen.

2 weeks ago - Fellow opposition leader María Corina Machado released a statement Saturday morning addressing the nation after Maduro's capture calling for Gonzalez to be recognized as the legitimately elected president of Venezuela and for him to assume power over the government and military. ... "That's enough now," Greenland Prime Minister Jens Frederik Nielsen said on social media late Sunday after repeated threats from President Trump to annex the autonomous Danish territory. "No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation. We are open to dialogue. We are open to discussions. But this must happen through the proper channels and with respect for international law," he wrote.