BUDAPEST, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to topple Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro should have a positive impact on world energy markets, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday, adding that the U.S. and Venezuela would control up to half of global oil reserves. In the biggest U.S. intervention in Latin America since the...
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday doubled down on Mexico's opposition to Washington's attack on Venezuela and extradition of the country's president. "We categorically reject intervention in the internal matters of other countries," Sheinbaum said, reiterating an earlier statement. The Mexican leader added that Mexico is a sovereign country and is cooperating with...
Jan 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner will represent the United States at talks on Ukraine in Paris this week, a White House official said on Monday. (Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Costas Pitas and David Ljunggren)
LATAKIA, Syria Dec 28 - Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria's Alawite heartland of Latakia spiralledinto gunfire and other violence, according to the province's media office. Syria has been rocked by several episodes of sectarian bloodshed since longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, who hails from the Muslim Alawite minority, was ousted by a...
BELGRADE, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A decision by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, to pull out of a luxury development plan in Serbia will deprive the country of much-needed foreign investment and other Balkan states will benefit, the head of Serbia's ruling party said. Kushner's U.S.-based Affinity Global Development told the Wall Street Journal...
WASHINGTON/COPENHAGEN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Sunday as his special envoy to Greenland, reigniting Danish and Greenlandic alarm over Washington's plans for the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island. Trump has said several times over the years that Greenland, a Danish territory that is now largely self-governing, should become...
WIESBADEN, Germany, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A senior NATO military official voiced cautious optimism that the Czech Republic may continue an initiative to source large-calibre ammunition for Kyiv from global suppliers despite a recent change of government in Prague. Before taking office, new Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis pledged to cut military aid to Ukraine from...
OSLO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado is doing well, a spokesperson for the Venezuelan opposition leader said on Wednesday, despite sustaining an injury to her back during her recent flight from Venezuela. Machado fractured a vertebra while fleeing her home country on a small boat last week to receive the...
The 2025 film Nuremberg ends with a sober line from British historian R.G. Collingwood: “The only clue to what man can do is what man has done” – a stark reminder that history repeats when justice does not. While the crimes of Nazi Germany were brought before an international tribunal 80 years ago, the atrocities committed by Japan’s...
NAYRAB, Syria, Dec 16 (Reuters) - As Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years unfolded, a Sydney shopowner was captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around the world in Syria, a group of men watching the footage recognised a familiar face. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, left his hometown...
