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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem at a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing in Washington on December 11.

More fed agents Minnesota-bound amid ICE shooting blame game

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem remained adamant that Renee Good was responsible for her own death, as Democrats insisted that an investigation must be completed before drawing conclusions.

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Iran’s ageing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is once again facing pressure as a new wave of protests highlight Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah deposed in 1979, right, as a possible figurehead going forward.
US President Donald Trump during a news conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. President Nicolas Maduro has been charged in the US after he was captured and flown out of Venezuela, following a series of airstrikes that mark an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's months-long campaign against the country. Photographer: Nicole Combeau/Bloomberg

Upending a world of mixed morality

Donald Trump is an unashamedly polarising figure. Which is just how he likes it.

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South Koreans protest the President’s motivation for capturing Maduro.

Trump’s brazen Caracas tactics signal end of an era

THE ECONOMIST: By prioritising oil over democracy, the United States has fundamentally altered the global order.

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Shannon O’Connor is facing court over accusations she hosted wild teen parties, supplied alcohol to minors, and watched as intoxicated high schoolers had sex.

‘Party Mum’ accused of hosting parties and urging teen sex

Shannon O’Connor is facing court over accusations she hosted wild teen parties, supplied alcohol to minors, and watched as intoxicated high schoolers had sex.

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Rob Reiner and wife Michele’s son Nick Reiner to face court over murder of parents.

Update in Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife’s murder case

Nick Reiner will enter a plea in a Los Angeles court to first-degree murder over the killing of his parents, acclaimed director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele.

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A former radar station in eastern Greenland in June 2025.

Plan to buy Greenland as Trump refuses to rule out invasion

President Trump has said since his first term that he wants to acquire Greenland, and he asked aides for an updated plan on Monday. European leaders reject the President’s assertions.

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Donald Trump’s plans for Venezuela’s oil ignores the reality of Guyana’s low-cost production of the resource nearby.

Why Venezuela presents a big headache for big oil

It has been decades since the industry relished foreign-policy entanglements.

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Nicolas Maduro is led away from a Manhattan helipad by federal agents to face a federal court in New York.

Why CIA urged Trump to leave Venezuela’s leftists in power

The opposition was not strong enough to take control of the corrupt country from the security services, criminal cartels and Nicolas Maduro’s political allies, the CIA said.

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Denmark’s leader Mette Frederkisen has issued a grave warning over Trump’s desire for Greenland, with UK PM Keir Starmer backing her comments.

Trump attack on Greenland would end NATO, Denmark warns

Denmark’s Prime Minister issued a grave warning that if the US President acted on his desire for the mineral-rich territory, it would mean the end of NATO, the world’s strongest defensive alliance.

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Trump’s Maduro move has made Putin’s world become more harmonious. 

By ousting Maduro, Trump plays right into Putin’s hands

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Vladimir Putin was Nicolas Maduro’s ally, but allies come and go. Worldviews, and the desire to force the world to conform to them, stay. Mr Putin’s world has just become more harmonious. 

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US President Donald Trump speaks aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, DC on January 04, 2026.

‘Sick’: Trump threatens new country with US action

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela was a ‘dead country’ before he directed an attack on its capital and had put another country on notice, warning he ‘will have to do something’.

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Donald Trump has cited Venezuela’s oil reserves as a chief reason for his seizure of the nation’s president Nicolas Maduro. But getting to them will be a different matter.

Will Trump’s great Venezuelan oil gamble pay off?

The country has the world’s largest petroleum reserves. Getting them out of the ground will be tortuous.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on Sunday addressing the US operation in Venezuela.
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is being held in New York after being captured in a US raid. (AP PHOTO)

‘Unity’: Venezuela’s interim government stands behind Maduro

Venezuela's toppled leader Nicolás Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting drug charges as a minister in Caracas says the Government still backs him.

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