WASHINGTON: A draft charter sent to about 60 countries by the US administration calls for members to contribute $1 billion in cash if they want membership on his new Board of Peace to last more than three years, according to the document seen by Reuters. “Each Member State shall serve a term of no more […]
Read MoreIran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says actors linked to the United States and Israel were responsible for killing “several thousands” of people during weeks of antigovernment protests in the country. “Those linked to Israel and US caused massive damages and killed several thousands” during the protests that convulsed Iran for more than two weeks, […]
Read MoreDHAKA: A Bangladesh commission investigating disappearances during the rule of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina said Monday at least 287 people were assumed to have been killed. The commission said some corpses were believed to have been dumped in rivers, including the Buriganga in the capital, Dhaka, or buried in mass graves. The government-appointed commission, […]
Read MoreBy Mia Nurmamat After US air strikes hit Caracas on Saturday, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife were detained and transferred to the United States. US President Donald Trump later said his country planned to “run” Venezuela for the time being and take control of its oil reserves. In the wake of the military […]
Read MoreThe United States is not at war with Venezuela despite the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, stressing that Washington’s actions were part of a law enforcement operation, not a military invasion. Maduro is currently being held in a New York jail following an operation carried out by […]
Read MoreCilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and one of the most influential figures in the country’s ruling establishment, has drawn renewed international attention after US President Donald Trump claimed she was captured alongside her husband during a US operation in Venezuela yesterday (3 January). According to Trump, US forces carried out what […]
Read MoreVenezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, is back in focus after US President Donald Trump said the South American country’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, has been “captured” amid large-scale strikes by Washington. Machado became the global face of the Venezuelan opposition after bagging the Nobel Peace Prize, which was […]
Read MoreThe US attacked Venezuela and deposed its long-serving autocratic President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump said, in Washington’s most direct intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has […]
Read MoreMOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was preparing for contacts with the United States to get details about US talks with European powers and Ukraine on a possible peace settlement to end the Ukraine conflict. Politico reported that US and Russian officials are expected to meet in Miami at the weekend, and that […]
Read MoreBy Park Chan-kyong South Korea has thrown its weight behind a United Nations resolution condemning the North’s dire human rights record, a choice that could complicate Seoul’s push to reopen dialogue with Pyongyang, analysts have warned. The decision to co-sponsor the annual UN resolution – despite expectations that President Lee Jae-myung’s liberal government might step […]
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