President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that interim authorities in Venezuela will transfer between 30 million and 50 million barrels of high-quality, sanctioned oil to the United States. In a social media post, Trump stated: "I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela...
Voices of dissent have risen across the United States following the military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, with critics mainly from Congress and social media questioning the action's legality and underlying motives. U.S. forces carried ou...
People take to the streets of New York on Jan 3, 2026 to protest US military action against Venezuela. The United States launched large-scale strikes on Venezuela and forcibly seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. On Jan 3, 2026, the United States crossed a line that the po...
WASHINGTON -- Ukraine has agreed to a peace deal with only "minor details" yet to resolved, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing a US official. "The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal. There are some minor details to be sorted out, but they have agreed to a peace deal," the official was quoted as ...
Republican Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia has agreed to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue personal taxes, the latest saga for the former billionaire who has been followed by a trail of financial challenges going back well over a decade. An attorney for Justice and his wife, Cathy, entered into ...
Members of the Belgian Union CGSP Cheminots - ACOD spoor, take part in a march outside of the Gare du Midi - Zuidstation Brussels South on the first day of three days of national strike called by trade unions of railway public transport, in Brussels, on November 24, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] Belgiu...
People attend a protest in front of the Japanese prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Nov 21, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] United States peace activists have urged Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to apologize for Japan's wartime atrocities following her provocative remarks suggestin...
The Department of Justice is facing new scrutiny over the decision to withhold the Jeffrey Epstein files earlier this year. A federal judge on Monday ordered the DOJ to expedite processing of a Freedom of Information Act request related to the Trump administration’s decision in July not to release ...
The FBI is seeking to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who, in a controversial video posted last week, urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders. The six – Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, and Reps. Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio, Jason Cro...
The human rights situation of women deserves attention from all sectors. Some aspects are less well-known. Without delving into political considerations, in late 2024, The New York Times, CNN, and other major Western media outlets published several articles on the exploitation and human rights v...
The world needs to urgently tackle the rising protectionism and aggressive tariff measures that threaten to destabilize the multilateral trading system and global markets, South Africa, European leaders and the World Trade Organization said during the first G20 summit ever held on African soil. Wit...
WASHINGTON -- The US-proposed 28-point peace plan aiming to end the Ukraine crisis has been trimmed to a 19-point framework drafted by the United States and Ukraine over the weekend in Geneva, multiple media outlets reported Monday. "Many of the controversial provisions were either softened or at l...
Visitors check out chips during the 22nd China International Semiconductor Expo in Beijing on Sunday. CHEN XIAOGENFOR CHINA DAILY China welcomes multinational semiconductor enterprises to establish research and development centers, production bases and operational hubs in the country, benefitting...
Facing a 30-day deadline to release the Epstein files, the Department of Justice has asked two judges in the Southern District of New York to authorize the release of grand jury transcripts and exhibits from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton -- who...
Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order meant to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of artificial intelligence, directing the Energy Department and its national labs to build an integrated AI platform using their existing and future supercomputers. The goal of ...