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Maduro's 'narco nephews' hit with sanctions as Trump tightens screw on Venezuela
The US has issued new sanctions targeting Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro’s family, oil tankers and shipping companies, as Washington ramps up pressure on Caracas.
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 4:33 am
Man freed from immigration detention centre on judge's orders as he fights to stay in US
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who became a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to El Salvador, has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania.
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 12:52 am
British backpacker jailed after drunk e-scooter crash killed father-of-two
A 25-year-old British backpacker has been sentenced to four years in prison after a fatal collision with a father-of-two while riding an electric scooter in Perth, Western Australia.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 11:33 pm
'What will hold back the Russians?' Zelenskyy responds to new US peace proposal for Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the US has offered to create a "free economic zone" in the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a bid to push a peace deal over the line.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 4:57 pm
US won't 'stand by and watch sanctioned vessels', warns White House after tanker seized off Venezuela
The US will not "stand by and watch sanctioned vessels sail the seas", the White House has warned, after American forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 3:01 pm
Russia sending Ukrainian children to 'harmful and abusive' camp in North Korea
Ukrainian children abducted by Russia have been sent to North Korea for "political indoctrination", human rights campaigners have warned.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 12:20 pm
The real reason for Donald Trump's Venezuela exploits
Donald Trump wants you to know that there is one leading reason why he is bearing down militarily on Venezuela: drugs.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 8:40 am
What is 'spoofing'? How the oil tanker seized by US tried to go unnoticed for years
An oil tanker seized by the US off the Venezuelan coast on Wednesday spent years trying to sail the seas unnoticed.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 7:36 am
'We have already been invaded', says Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner
Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winning opposition leader has said her country has "has already been invaded", when asked whether she would support a US invasion.
Posted on 11 December 2025 | 5:43 am