2025 • Dec 11
Pressure on Maduro grows after US seizes ‘dark fleet’ tanker off coast of Venezuela
Move interpreted as escalation of US policy as Vladimir Putin ‘reaffirms’ support for South American dictator
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2025 • Dec 11
Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast
Footage uploaded to X by US attorney general shows its forces landing on the tanker in major escalation of Trump’s pressure campaign
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2025 • Dec 10
Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ under way amid Trump ‘interference’
Xiomara Castro alleges US manipulation and blackmail as preliminary count shows two rightwing candidates closely tiedHonduras’s president, Xiomara Castro, has alleged that an “electoral coup...
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2025 • Dec 10
Venezuelan Nobel peace prize winner will not attend ceremony, say organisers
Opposition leader María Corina Machado’s daughter to receive award on her behalf in Oslo, says Nobel InstituteThe Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will not attend the Nobel ...
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2025 • Dec 09
Oslo appearance by Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado cancelled
Press conference was expected to have been Venezuelan opposition leader’s first public appearance in 11 monthsA press conference in Oslo with the Nobel peace prize laureate María Corina Mach...
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2025 • Dec 09
Top Democrat calls on Trump administration to release full video of ‘double-tap’ boat strike – live
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that if the administration thinks that their ‘actions are justifiable, what are they hiding from the American people?’A federal judge in New York h...
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2025 • Dec 09
‘Very unfair’: Trump threatens extra 5% tariff on Mexico over water dispute
President accuses neighbor of violating treaty governing water-sharing and urges water to be released ‘immediately’ Donald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if...
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2025 • Dec 08
US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser
Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalate
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2025 • Dec 08
Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic
Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of culture
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2025 • Dec 08
Family of student deported to Honduras say they were targeted by ICE agents
Father of student detained at Boston airport on her way to visit family in Austin, says agents showed up at Texas homeImmigration agents appeared on Sunday at the Texas home...
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2025 • Dec 08
Ex-Honduran president thanks God – and Trump – for drug-trafficking pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández thanked the Lord for being ‘a free man’ and then Trump for ‘changing my life’Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – i...
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2025 • Dec 05
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglersThe Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on ...
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