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Trump touts Venezuelan oil windfall for US as Caracas pushes back

Claim of a $2.8-billion crude supply deal sharpens tensions amid military action and threats against Venezuela’s interim leadership.

Age no bar: 92-year-old judge takes charge of Maduro trial, spotlighting US judiciary’s lifetime tenure

Maduro denies drug charges, calls himself ‘decent man’ in US court

Drones over miraflores, gunfire ring out during political crisis in Venezuela

US signals oil push in Venezuela as Trump insists there is no war

President says Washington may back American energy firms to rebuild Venezuela’s crippled oil sector even as sanctions stay in place and Maduro remains in US custody.

Maduro’s final words on US soil: ‘Happy New Year’ as Washington snatches Venezuela strongman

US elite forces stage pre-dawn Caracas raid, fly Venezuelan President and wife to New York on sweeping narco-terror charges.

At least 40 killed as US strikes rock Venezuela, President Maduro captured in overnight raid

Civilian neighborhoods hit near Caracas airport as Washington says operation aimed at enforcing drug indictments and forcing political transition.

Trump claims Maduro seized after US airstrikes rock Caracas

US President says Venezuelan leader and his wife were captured and flown out following overnight strikes; official confirmation awaited.

Iran unrest deepens as economic protests spread beyond Tehran; at least 7 killed

Widening demonstrations over inflation and currency collapse turn deadly in provincial towns, marking the most extensive unrest since 2022.

‘We are all thinking of you’: New York Mayor sends handwritten note to jailed activist Umar Khalid

Zohran Mamdani’s message, delivered to Khalid’s parents in the US, renews international attention on the prolonged incarceration of the UAPA accused activist.