The Norwegian Nobel Institute cancelled a planned press conference on Tuesday with this year’s Peace Prize laureate, Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, ahead of Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo. Machado, 58, has been subject to a decade-long travel ban imposed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro and has been in hiding for more than a year. Her whereabouts were not …
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Behind the crippling economic and political situation in Venezuela is Nicolás Maduro. After years of high inflation and a tumultuous relationship with the United States, the president of Venezuela faces a country waiting for political intervention. US President Donald Trump wants to oust Maduro, a former revolutionary turned anti-democratic leader, and recently said his “days are numbered.” Maduro’s regime is …
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Andrej Babis, a billionaire supporter of US President Donald Trump, returned to power as Czech prime minister on Tuesday, signalling a possible end to Ukraine aid and potentially rockier ties with the European Union. Babis’s ANO movement, which won the October parliamentary elections, teamed up with two Eurosceptic parties to form a coalition government. In its policy statement, the coalition …
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President Donald Trump appeared to become muddled whilst discussing America’s soybean trade with China. Agricultural producers specialising in corn, cotton, sorghum, soybean, rice, cattle, wheat, and potato were all present at the gathering, where the president unveiled a $12 billion farming support package designed to help embattled farmers market their produce amid escalating expenses following heightened tariffs on China as …
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Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to accept a peace deal with Russia. The Ukrainian president is meeting European leaders in London today, seeking to ensure any deal deters a future Russian attack. The US president slammed Zelensky, implying he was playing for time when Ukraine’s own negotiators “love” the draft deal which, Trump claimed, Vladimir Putin …
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants’ right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan. In the video, Mamdani vowed to protect the city’s 3 million immigrants, saying, “We can all stand …
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Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators? While Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to acquire the storied movie studio thanks to CEO David Ellison’s connections to the Trump administration, new reporting in Bloomberg and The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos met with President Donald Trump to discuss a …
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President Donald Trump endured an embarrassing teleprompter blunder whilst presenting medals to entertainment legends. On Saturday, Trump attended the Kennedy Center Honors medal ceremony. This year’s honourees include actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, rock group Kiss, and performer Michael Crawford. Things were running smoothly until a technical failure occurred during his introduction of Strait. “We have …
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اسرائیلی وزیراعظم بنیامین نیتن یاہو نے امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کے غزہ امن منصوبے کے دوسرے مرحلے پر بات چیت کا عندیہ دے دیا۔ برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے رائٹرز کے مطابق اتوار کو اسرائیلی وزیر اعظم بنیامین نیتن یاہو نے جرمنی کے چانسلر فریڈرک مرز کے ساتھ یروشلم میں مشترکہ پریس کانفرنس کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ وہ اس ماہ کے …
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اسرائیلی صدر نے امریکی صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کی جانب سے وزیراعظم بنیامین نیتن یاہو کو کرپشن مقدمات میں معافی دینے کے مطالبے کو مسترد کردیا ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ معافی کا فیصلہ اسرائیل کی خود مختاری، قانونی تقاضوں اور عوامی مفاد کو سامنے رکھ کر ہی کیا جائے گا۔ اسرائیل کے صدر آئزک ہرزوگ نے صدر ٹرمپ کی جانب …
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