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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.

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.

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. 

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’.

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

Here, might makes right, and laws and rules fall away.

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.

Australia’s Venezuelan community processes the complex fallout of the strikes as Anthony Albanese urges Donald Trump and Venezuelan leaders to pursue a peaceful transition.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is adopting a less publicly critical ​approach than most other European leaders to the US invasion of Venezuela.

US President Donald Trump has published the first photo of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, blindfolded on board a US warship, after capturing the leader and his wife in a military operation.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump has announced the United States will ‘run’ Venezuela following an advanced military operation that saw President Nicolás Maduro and his wife captured.

Ministers across the world have raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Elon Musk's AI tool Grok.

US President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to visit the US, although the White House is yet to confirm the invitation.

The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response by Iran’s theocracy over the demonstrations, which have slowed in the capital, Tehran, but expanded elsewhere.

Australia has told Beijing it is deeply concerned about China’s military exercises simulating a blockade of Taiwan this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed.