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. BEIJING: Irish prime minister Micheal Martin will visit China on the invitation of counterpart Li Qiang from Sunday to Thursday, Beijing’s foreign ministry said. Martin will go to Beijing and the economic powerhouse of Shanghai, meeting with Li as well as President Xi Jinping, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement Saturday. Martin’s visit … Read more
. Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo’s Goma in major escalation. Photo: Reuters (file) BENI (DR CONGO): A militia linked to the Islamic State group staged a simultaneous attack on three villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 14 people, the military and local sources said Friday. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) carried out … Read more
Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia and props for tourists.
new video loaded: Why Trump Removed Venezuela’s Maduro David E. Sanger, our national security correspondent, describes the implications of President Trump’s launching of the attack that captured the Venezuelan president, and Trump’s declaration that the United States would “run the country.” By David E. Sanger, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Leila Medina and June Kim January 3, 2026
US-backed Venezuelan opposition calls for change as Maduro is captured amid uncertainty A still image shows Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro being walked in custody down a hallway at the offices of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in New York City, US, January 3, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was in a New … Read more
Vows to safeguard Venezuelan community following US strike, monitoring the situation, issuing relevant guidance New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday that he telephoned President Donald Trump “directly” to voice opposition to what he called a “pursuit of regime change” in Venezuela after the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an … Read more
Nicolás Maduro balked at a gilded exile. U.S. officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, known for stabilizing Venezuela’s economy.
. UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on Friday for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provided aid in Gaza, saying he was “deeply concerned” at the development. Guterres “calls for this measure to be reversed, stressing that international non-governmental organizations are indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work and that the … Read more
Opponents of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela called it illegal. Supporters celebrated the ouster of Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian president.
[ Growth target. Design: Ibrahim Yahya ISLAMABAD: An independent think tank has termed the first quarter’s economic growth rate of 3.7% a result of “methodological artefacts” and manipulation, observing that growth existed only on papers without any real production expansion. In a brief, the Economic Policy and Business Development (EPBD) think tank said that various … Read more
