North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of hypersonic missiles a day after the U.S. seized Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro in an act that Pyongyang denounced as a “rogue and brutal” violation of international laws.

The missiles were fired on Sunday to verify the weapon system’s sustainability and effectiveness, official Korean ...Read more

Realizing President Donald Trump’s plan for a U.S.-led revival of Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could be a years-long and challenging process costing upwards of $100 billion.

Years of corruption, underinvestment, fires and thefts have left the nation’s crude infrastructure in tatters. Rebuilding it enough to lift Venezuela’s ...Read more

The number of people who die in Britain this year is set to exceed those born in the country, the Resolution Foundation said, in what the think tank described as a permanent shift that will increase the U.K.’s dependency on migration.

Britain will see a shortfall in births in 2026, Resolution Foundation projected as part of its annual ...Read more

As Gov. Mike Dunleavy enters his final year in office, some lawmakers are approaching the coming legislative session with mixed expectations.

The Legislature is set to convene in Juneau on Jan. 20 with a packed agenda, including debates on a fiscal plan that Dunleavy committed to introducing, a long-promised natural gas pipeline, and a Rural ...Read more

Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered on Sunday in Orlando to pray for their country one day after President Nicolás Maduro was removed and captured in a U.S. military operation.

At the First Baptist Church of Orlando, Venezuelans celebrated, sang, prayed over their flag and gleefully chanted their national anthem — many through tears — for a ...Read more

SAN JOSE — Protesters braved a rainy Sunday afternoon to show out against President Donald Trump’s military action against Venezuela that resulted in the capture of the country’s president.

More than 100 people braved the rain, with umbrellas and hoods pulled low, to push back against Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the “kidnapping”...Read more

President Donald Trump warned other drug-producing nations in the Western Hemisphere that he wouldn’t long tolerate the flow of illegal substances to the U.S.

A day after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to stand trial in the U.S., Trump said several other nations need to change their ways.

“Colombia is very sick, too,...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. needs “total access” to Venezuela as questions mount about the country’s leadership following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

“We need total access. We need access to oil and to other things in their country that will allow us to rebuild their country,” Trump told reporters on Air Force ...Read more

In a press conference Saturday detailing the operation to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and U.S. plans to “run” the country and rebuild its oil industry, there was one word President Donald Trump never used: Democracy.

Trump’s comments, detailing negotiations with a hardcore regime figure, Delcy Rodríguez, and dismissing ...Read more

Two days after Venezuelan’s strongman Nicolás Maduro was captured by the United States and brought to New York on drug-trafficking charges, Venezuelans in South Florida and around the U.S. are still struggling to process what the moment means.

Is Venezuela free? Will the nearly eight million Venezuelans living abroad feel safe enough to ...Read more

During a national television appearance on Sunday morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. who lost deportation protections under the Trump administration have the opportunity to apply for refugee status.

“We need to make sure that our programs ...Read more

Denmark’s prime minister urged Donald Trump to stop threatening to take control of Greenland as the U.S. president’s move to run Venezuela set alarm bells ringing in the Nordic nation about America’s military ambitions.

Mette Frederiksen’s comments came in response to Trump’s renewed assertion on Sunday that the U.S. needs Greenland, ...Read more

Hours after the U.S. military whisked Nicolás Maduro away from Caracas, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said his people should be prepared to “give their blood, even their lives” to defend Venezuela and the Cuban revolution. But even that might not be enough.

With Maduro now awaiting trial in New York, Cuba is left without its ...Read more

Rep. Jamie Raskin waited longer than some of his fellow Maryland Democrats to weigh in on America’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, but some points he made in a lengthy statement Sunday seemed to prompt a response from Vice President JD Vance.

The United States conducted a surprise military operation in Venezuela’s capital ...Read more

Top officials in the Trump administration clarified their position on "running" Venezuela after seizing its president, Nicolás Maduro, over the weekend, pressuring the regime that remains in power there Sunday to acquiesce to U.S. demands on oil access and drug enforcement, or else face further military action.

Their goal appears to be the ...Read more

On the day after Venezuelans woke up to the news of strongman Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces, Venezuelan exiles in Doral gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe to pray for their country and what would come next.

Just before the 10 a.m. Mass, around 1,200 people were already sitting in pews, talking to each other about the weekend’s ...Read more

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will make his first appearance in a federal courtroom Monday in Manhattan, two days after the Trump administration seized him and his wife in a military operation critics have called a violation of international and U.S. law.

After their capture, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by the ...Read more

Venezuela’s military accused U.S. forces of killing members of President Nicolás Maduro’s security detail “in cold blood” before seizing the embattled leader and his wife in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas on Saturday.

In a nationally televised address, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said the abduction of Maduro and his wife, ...Read more