The U.S. seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by a Russian submarine on Wednesday, after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic as part of a U.S. “blockade” of Venezuelan oil exports, two U.S. officials told Reuters. This appeared to be the first time in recent memory that the U.S….
Reuters. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday (January 5) he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call that Venezuela must not be dragged into instability after the toppling of its leader Nicolas Maduro. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Erdogan also said Ankara would stand with the people of Venezuela. He…
Reuters. The shopkeepers’ protest continued on Tuesday (January 6) as eyewitness videos showed protestors throwing gas canisters amid clashes with Iranian security forces in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. Reuters was able to confirm the location of the videos by buildings and road layout which matched satellite and file imagery of the area. The date…
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were flown from a Brooklyn jail to Manhattan, New York, in the U.S., on Monday (January 5) to face drug charges at a federal courthouse, Reuters reports. Maduro was ousted in the biggest U.S. intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama,…
Maduro landed Saturday evening at a small airport in New York following the middle-of-the-night operation that extracted him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, Euronews reports. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has arrived in the United States and was brought to the Metropolitan…
U.S. District Attorney Pam Bondi posted on X on Saturday (January 3) announcing that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges including narco‑terrorism conspiracy, Reuters reports. The U.S. attacked Venezuela and deposed of Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump said,…
The European Union urged the adherence to international law after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, Politico reports. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice” after they were flown out of Venezuela following a…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured, after the United States carried out a “large scale strike” against the country, U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Saturday (January 3), Reuters reports. Maduro and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the Country”, Trump said in his post…
Starting early this morning, airstrikes were carried out on Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. Air defense systems were activated. Explosions were heard in the city, fires broke out, and entire neighborhoods were left without electricity. It is assumed that the strikes were carried out by the United States. According to media reports, targets included, among others,…
“We are building peace not only with the Government of Armenia but also with its people,” said Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan. According to him, Baku is consistently strengthening its economic interdependence with Yerevan by supplying petroleum products and facilitating the export of grain to the Armenian market. Referring to…
At least 24 people have been killed and over 50 have suffered injuries in a drone attack on a cafe and a hotel in the Kherson, TASS reports. “Last night, the enemy carried out a deliberate drone strike on a venue where civilians were celebrating the New Year. Three drones attacked a cafe and…
The US on Tuesday placed sanctions on 10 people and entities in Iran and Venezuela, linking the action to Tehran’s weapons programme. Among those sanctioned by the US Treasury was Venezuela company Empresa Aeronatica Nacional SA and its chairman Jose Jesus Urdaneta Gonzalez, who is accused of co-ordinating with the Venezuelan and Iranian armed…
On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will adopt the euro as its currency, marking an important milestone for the country, for the history of the euro, and for the EU as a whole. This follows a period of intensive preparation and effort by Bulgaria to meet all the necessary requirements. The euro will deliver practical…
The Russian side intends to fully implement all agreements reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regarding the investigation of the aviation accident involving an AZAL aircraft. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin. “As noted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, everything required in such tragic cases…
Reuters. Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday its national security was a red line and backed a call for UAE forces to leave Yemen within 24 hours, hours after a Saudi-led coalition carried out an airstrike on the southern Yemeni port of Mukalla. The warning represented Riyadh’s strongest language against Abu Dhabi yet, as the…
Reuters. Turkish police detained 357 suspects in a nationwide operation against Islamic State on Tuesday, the interior minister said, a day after three police officers and six militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said authorities carried out raids in 21 provinces across the country. “Just as…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Russia’s accusations that Ukraine had attempted to attack President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region as “lies.” In a social media post, he said that Russia was trying to undermine the progress made in the Ukraine-US peace talks and that Moscow was preparing to attack Ukrainian government buildings in…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin stated at a meeting with the country’s senior military commanders that offensive operations must continue in order to take the Donbas region and the city of Zaporizhzhia under full control. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov reported that during 2025, Russian forces seized 6,460…
The death toll in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has risen to 414 with 1,142 others injured since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on October 11, according to Gaza’s health authorities on Saturday, Reuters reports. Over the past 48 hours, 29 bodies were brought to Gaza hospitals, including four newly…
Israeli occupation forces on Saturday carried out a new incursion into the village of Taranga, reaching the outskirts of the town of Jabata al-Khashab in northern Quneitra countryside. SANA reporter in Quneitra said that an Israeli army force, consisting of six military vehicles, entered from the direction of Telloul al-Hamr, passing through the area…
US President Donald Trump on Friday cast himself as the ultimate arbiter of any peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, in an exclusive conversation with POLITICO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to meet with Trump in Florida on Sunday and told reporters he’s bringing with him a new 20-point plan for peace. The…
A bombing at a mosque located in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said. Images released by Syria’s state-run Arab News Agency (SANA) showed blood on the mosque’s carpets, holes in the walls, shattered windows and fire damage. The Imam Ali ibn…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet to express concern about the “ongoing violence” between Cambodia and Thailand, the State Department said in a press release. “Secretary Rubio reiterated President Trump’s desire for peace and the need to fully implement the Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords. Secretary Rubio further…
Reuters. Pope Leo XIV lamented the conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday (December 25), in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. Leo, the first U.S. pope, said the story of Jesus…
At the AK Party Extended Provincial Chairs Meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan strongly condemned what he described as unlawful agreements involving Israel, Greece, and the Greek Cypriot Administration of Cyprus. While stating that Turkey would not be drawn into provocations, Erdoğan stressed that it would never allow the rights of the people living…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has given details of an updated US-brokered peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war, the BBC reports. Giving details of the 20-point plan agreed by US and Ukrainian negotiators in Florida at the weekend, Zelensky said the Russians would respond on Wednesday once the Americans had spoken to them, the…
Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media has reported. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that Putin’s meeting on Tuesday with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani and Minister of Defence…
Reuters/CCTV. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday stressed that arctic security remains a key priority for the European Union (EU) after U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call to take over Greenland, provoking strong reactions from Denmark and the EU. Following disputes earlier this year over Greenland, which is an autonomous…
Turkish media have reported that, within the framework of the Armenia–Turkey normalization process, work on the Turkish side toward opening border checkpoints has accelerated. In particular, technical assessments and preparatory measures have begun at the ‘Alican’ border checkpoint. It is noted that the project envisages additional construction on the Alican road, which will improve…
US President Donald Trump, along with Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, will make a statement at 00:30 Moscow time on Tuesday, December 23, with an undisclosed topic. This became known on December 22 from the official schedule published on the website of the State Department. “At 16:30 (December…
