Aleks Phillipsand Nikos Papanikolaou Getty Images Thessaloniki Airport closed entirely after air traffic communication was knock out Thousands of passengers are stranded across Europe after a communications failure forced Greece to close its airspace, causing widespread cancellations and delays. Officials are working to understand why radio communications were disrupted on Sunday morning, prompting the temporary […]
Continue ReadingVenezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been placed in custody at a New York detention centre after he was captured during US strikes on Caracas. Footage shows a handcuffed Maduro emerging from a plane after it landed at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York state on Saturday evening. He […]
Continue ReadingThe bodies of 16 more victims of a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana have been identified by police. The youngest person was a Swiss girl aged 14, with nine aged under 18. The group includes people of Swiss, Italian, Romanian, Turkish and French nationalities, police said. This brings the number of […]
Continue ReadingWatch: How the US attack on Venezuela unfolded The US will “run” Venezuela until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” can be ensured, Donald Trump has said, after US strikes led to the capture of country’s President Nicolas Maduro. US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”, […]
Continue ReadingLeaders around the world have responded with a mix of condemnation and support to the US capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. Following a large-scale strike on Venezuela on Saturday, Maduro and his wife were captured by US forces and removed from the country. The pair have been indicted on drug charges in New York. […]
Continue ReadingGetty Images Protestors held a rally in Bogota, Colombia after Nicolás Maduro’s capture. As the dust settles in Caracas, Venezuelans are reacting to the news of President Nicolás Maduro’s capture by the US with hope, fear, and uncertainty. People began to emerge in the streets Saturday after a night rocked by explosions in the Caracas […]
Continue ReadingRoyal Air Force Typhoon jets have joined French aircraft in a joint strike on an underground arms cache in Syria used by the Islamic State group (IS), the UK Ministry of Defence says. The facility, identified by intelligence, was believed to be storing arms and explosives, the statement said, and was in mountains just north […]
Continue ReadingWatch: How the US attack on Venezuela unfolded For months, US spies had been monitoring Venezuelan President’s Nicolas Maduro’s every move. A small team, including one source within the Venezuelan government, had been observing where the 63-year-old slept, what he ate, what he wore and even, according to top military officials, “his pets”. Then, in […]
Continue ReadingThe BBC’s Bernd Debusmann reports from Doral Florida, where the Venezuelan-American community has gathered to celebrate the US attack.
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump announced that the US will run Venezuela until a ‘proper transition can take place.’
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