Prediction markets allow people to bet on everything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the fall of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The latter is attracting renewed attention in this murky world of 24/7 speculative trading. Last week, an anonymous trader pocketed more than $400,000 after betting … Read more
Credit: Vahid/X Donald Trump has been warned that the US military needs more time to prepare for strikes against Iran as another night of protests rocked the country. The US president is said to be considering military action and has been presented with a number of targets, including elements of the security services responsible for … Read more
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets his Danish and Greenlandic counterparts next week, Denmark will be defending a territory that has drifted steadily away from it and steadily moved toward independence since 1979. President Donald Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland have sparked … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — For House Republicans, the political year began with a pep rally of sorts when President Donald Trump gathered them at the Kennedy Center in Washington for a speech. But by the time MPs completed their first week of work in this mid-term election year, fractures in the party were already visible. From … Read more
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GUATIRE, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela on Thursday released a number of jailed high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, both citizens and foreigners, in what the government described as a “peace-seeking” gesture less than a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces on drug-trafficking charges. US President Donald Trump, who has pressured … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to claiming that Venezuelan oil is now under his control, President Donald Trump doesn’t mince words. But no small part of that oil belongs to China under contracts it struck with Caracas years ago, setting the stage for a delicate diplomatic dance over the next few weeks. Some experts … Read more
Russia strongly condemned the US seizure of an oil tanker on Thursday, signaling a further chill in relations between Moscow and Washington that could spill over into other areas and hurt President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade Russia to end its nearly four-year war in Ukraine. Wednesday’s capture of the Russian-flagged tanker in the North … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Republicans have “so many good nuggets” to campaign on this year as he tries to maintain his slim edge in the House. But the president’s nearly 90-minute address to House Republicans had little in the way of a new policy agenda or a new cohesive message … Read more
A highway in Caracas is full of cars. But far from typical rush-hour traffic, Avenida Boyacá, a highway that runs past El Avila National Park in the Venezuelan capital, has come to a standstill as masked men wielding Kalashnikovs stop drivers and demand to search their phones and cars. Gangs of armed men, part of … Read more