Reuters Donald Trump has warned Venezuela’s new leader Delcy Rodríguez she could “pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro” if she “doesn’t do what’s right”. His comments to US magazine The Atlantic came as the country’s deposed president Nicolás Maduro was set to appear in a New York court on Monday. The US … Read more
Jake Kwon,Seoul correspondentand Koh Ewe Getty Images Visiting Beijing at this time is a significant move for Lee Jae Myung South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he seeks to reset frayed ties with his country’s biggest trading partner. Regional security and Beijing’s unofficial ban on Korean … Read more
Tiffany Wertheimerand BBC Visual Journalism team @realdonaldtrump The US says its military operation to capture Venezuela’s president took months of planning, but when Donald Trump gave the order to launch, “Operation Absolute Resolve” only lasted about 150 minutes. The surprise early-morning attack on Saturday marked an unprecedented event in modern politics and culminated in the … Read more
Getty Images When US forces conducted a night raid on the Venezuelan capital Caracas, they didn’t just drag President Nicolás Maduro from his compound and put him on a boat to New York – they took his wife too. Cilia Flores, 69, has long been seen as one of the most powerful figures in Venezuela, … Read more
Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Crans Montana Reuters Laetitia Brodard, whose teenage son Arthur died in the fire, was comforted by friends In the snow-dusted street outside St Christopher’s Church, hundreds joined a special Sunday Mass for the victims of the fire that tore through Le Constellation bar on New Year’s Eve. Many hugged … Read more
Tiffany Wertheimer, Makuochi Okaforand BBC Hausa Zakari Kontagora Bandits set fire to the village market and looted goods Armed men have violently stormed a village in Nigeria’s Niger state, killing at least 30 people and looting shops, state authorities have said. The attackers emerged from a forest near the village of Kasuwan-Daji on Saturday and … Read more
Denmark’s prime minister has told Donald Trump to “stop the threats” about taking over Greenland. Mette Frederiksen said “it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland”, adding: “The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the Danish kingdom”. Her remarks … Read more
Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria Many of those who tuned in to US President Donald Trump’s news conference on Saturday were probably hoping to hear dramatic details of how US forces seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in a pre-dawn raid. But arguably a more surprising moment came when Trump announced … Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump stands behind him during a press conference following a U.S. strike on Venezuela where President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., January 3, 2026. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters U.S. Secretary of … Read more
The BBC’s Bernd Debusmann reports from Doral Florida, where the Venezuelan-American community has gathered to celebrate the US attack. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3649/live/8ea6e4f0-e8f1-11f0-aae2-2191c0e48a3b.jpg 2026-01-03 22:20:19