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US President Donald Trump has said he will meet his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro at the White House in the “near future”, just days after saying an operation targeting Colombia “sounds good”. The US seized the president of neighbouring Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in a raid on Caracas on Saturday night.Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Wednesday the death toll in the raid was substantially higher than initially reported, with more than 100 people killed.Local media had previously reported that 23 Venezuelan and 32 Cuban soldiers died when US forces stormed Maduro’s compound. During a call with Trump, Petro explained…
Chinese officials are reviewing Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus for possible technology control violations, FT reported on Tuesday.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesChina said Thursday it will investigate Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus to assess its compliance with export control laws.Meta acquired Singapore-based Manus last month as the U.S. tech giant looks to integrate advanced automation into its consumer and enterprise products. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal closed at an amount over $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the acquisition.China’s Ministry of Commerce said…
James Oliver,BBC Panorama,Will DahlgreenandAndy Verity,BBC News InvestigationsGetty Images/BBCAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor sold his former mansion for £15m in 2007Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received millions of pounds from an oligarch using funds from a firm implicated in criminal corruption, a BBC investigation has found.Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev has told the BBC through his lawyers that he used a loan from a company called Enviro Pacific Investments to help him buy Andrew’s former mansion.Prosecutors in Italy concluded that the firm had received cash from a bribery scheme in 2007.Weeks after the last of these payments was made, the oligarch bought Sunninghill Park in Berkshire from the…
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondentWho is Venezuela’s new interim president, Delcy Rodríguez?Amid the many questions swirling since last weekend’s dramatic events in Caracas – and there are many – one that refuses to go away centres on the bespectacled woman now leading what US officials are calling Venezuela’s “interim authorities.”Why Delcy?What is it about Delcy Rodríguez, daughter of a former Marxist guerilla and deputy to ousted dictator Nicolas Maduro, that has caught the eye of the Trump administration?And why has Washington decided on an avowed “Chavista” revolutionary to stay in power, rather than backing the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, whose opposition…
Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving end and, according to research by dating app Bumble, the adults most likely to receive those images are women between 40 and 45 years old.That being said, it’s an extremely common experience online, with one in three teenage girls saying they’ve received an unwanted sexual image, according to YouGov data.What changes…
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, President Trump said “only time will tell” when it comes to how long the United States aims to control the country. Source link
Gabriela Pomeroy,Alicia CurryandAdrienne Murray,in CopenhagenMia ChemnitzMia Chemnitz says “the people of Greenland do not want to become American””The people of Greenland do not want to become American,” Mia Chemnitz tells the BBC. “We are not for sale.”The 32-year-old business owner in the Greenlandic capital Nuuk reflects the sentiments of many who spoke to the BBC about how they felt about recent rhetoric from the Trump administration.The White House has said it was “actively” discussing an offer to buy the territory that has for centuries belonged to Denmark. US President Donald Trump and his officials had earlier intimated a willingness to…
Russian attacks left Ukraine’s southeastern regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia almost entirely without power, the country’s energy ministry said on Wednesday night. Critical infrastructure was “operating on reserve power”, it said in a statement on Telegram, while officials said water supplies and the internet were also disrupted. Russia has recently intensified attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, aimed at paralysing power supplies during a harsh winter.”Ukraine’s energy system is under enemy attacks every day, and energy workers are operating in extremely difficult conditions to provide people with light and heat,” Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on Telegram.”Deteriorating weather conditions put…
SHANGHAI, CHINA – MAY 06: China’s research icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, arrives at Waigaoqiao port after over 5-month Antarctic expedition on May 6, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to take control of Greenland has raised alarm in Beijing, following Washington’s military operation that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.Trump, who has long advocated U.S. control over the self-governing Danish territory, repeatedly emphasized on Sunday that Greenland is strategically important.”We need Greenland from a national security situation. It’s so strategic. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian…
A new Gallup survey found that more than half of Venezuelans reported struggling to afford food last year, with economic hardship reaching even the wealthy. Source link
Russians find a refuge on the beaches of Sanya from sanctions and “sideways looks,” toasting the New Year beside a Chinese nuclear submarine base. Source link
The weight loss jabs Mounjaro and Wegovy may need to be continued for life to keep obesity under control, new research suggests.The finding will dismay people who are stretching their household finances to afford treatment, which can cost up to £300 a month depending on the dose and drug. Almost two million British adults have used the jabs in the last year. And the overwhelming majority are paying privately.According to the new research, around half of users stop treatment within a year. That’s often because of side effects or cost.But it then takes an average of just one and a…
Year 11 pupils in England will soon be able to access their GCSE results on their phones, under government plans to modernise how exam records are stored and shared.The Department for Education has announced the national rollout of a new app, the Education Record, which allows students to view their GCSE results digitally from summer 2026. This will make it easier for young people to enrol in further education or prove their qualifications to future employers.Under the plans, pupils will still attend school on results day to receive their grades in person from 9am. Results will then appear on the…
Cyber flashing became illegal in 2024. Now, the government is making it a priority offence, putting the pressure on tech companies to do something about it. Cyber flashing is when someone sends a non-consensual explicit picture – best known as a “dick pic”. It’s most often women on the receiving end and, according to research by dating app Bumble, the adults most likely to receive those images are women between 40 and 45 years old.That being said, it’s an extremely common experience online, with one in three teenage girls saying they’ve received an unwanted sexual image, according to YouGov data.What changes…
SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 26: An aerial view of the Shenzhen skyline on August 26, 2020 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by He Shaoping/VCG via Getty Images)Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets traded mixed Thursday after Wall Street closed lower amid rising geopolitical tensions and comments from U.S. President Donald Trump.U.S. defense stocks fell after Trump said he “will not permit” defense companies to issue dividends or stock buybacks until they address his complaints about the industry, including executive pay packages and production issues.Oil prices also dropped overnight after Trump said that Venezuela’s interim authorities would turn over…
Bazaars were shuttered and demonstrators met with violence from security forces amid rising anger about the country’s dire economic situation. Source link
The American president said a White House visit with Gustavo Petro was being arranged by the secretary of state. Source link
The vessel was one of two taken into American custody as the Trump administration said it was executing a “deal to take all the oil.” Source link
As a damaged U.S. helicopter struggled to stay aloft over Venezuela’s capital, the success of the entire operation hung in the balance. Source link
Also known as “dark fleet” or “shadow fleet” ships, the vessels use murky tactics to transport oil in violation of sanctions. Source link
Amid heavy security, a tentative return of street life in Caracas. Source link
Republicans praised what they characterized as a narrow and well-executed plan, while Democrats expressed alarm, warning that the mission was vaguely defined. Source link
Opposition was stacking up to the United States buying the semiautonomous island or taking it by force. Source link
Criminals have used Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to create child sexual abuse imagery, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reported.For days, the IWF has been receiving reports from internet users that Grok had created child abuse images, but that content hadn’t crossed the threshold into illegal content. Now, it has, says the IWF.It is one of the few organisations around the world that is allowed to proactively track down child abuse material and found the material in a dark web forum. Image: An IWF analyst shows Sky News a mocked-up version of a report about child sexual abuse imagery The…
