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1. When will the war end

The all-powerful United States is acting without being constrained by the even limited and sometimes perfunctory scruples of the past. It did so last October in Venezuela. It is doing so now in the Middle East....

2. U.S.-Europe: Trapped in a ''loveless marriage''

After 13 months of Trump 2.0, after Greenland, the suffocating pressure on Kyiv and the flirtations with Putin, the tariffs and sanctions against Europeans defending the EU’s digital sovereignty, the verdict could be even harsher....

3. Greece, Turkey and the mind of Donald Trump

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s recent statement suggesting that we’re facing a “historic opportunity for the permanent solution to the Aegean problem” raised eyebrows in Athens. ...

4. Trump declares himself ‘Acting President of Venezuela’ online

President Donald Trump is once again stirring controversy after posting an image on social media that labels him the ''acting president of Venezuela,'' a move critics say crosses from political showmanship into dangerous territory....

5. U.S. seizes Russian flagged oil tanker (video)

The United States is turning up the heat abroad and doing it on two very different fronts at the same time....

6. Maduro pleads not guilty in US court after military seizure

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court on Monday to US charges including narcotics trafficking and narco-terrorism, declaring himself “a decent man” and insisting he remains Venezuela’s legitimate leader following his dramatic seizure by US forces....

7. Maduro in U.S. custody as world reacts to shock arrest

The arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has triggered a fast-moving international crisis, with world leaders sharply divided and emergency diplomatic talks now underway....

8. US claims capture of Venezuela’s president after large-scale strikes on Caracas

The United States has carried out what President Donald Trump described as a “large-scale strike” on Venezuela, claiming that US forces have captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the country....

9. Trump says U.S. struck drug site inside Venezuela, raising fears of covert escalation

President Donald Trump says the United States has carried out a strike inside Venezuela, hitting what he described as a key drug-loading area, a claim that, if confirmed, would mark a sharp and worrying escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against President Nicolas Maduro....

10. U.S. strike kills 11 on boat with alleged drugs onboard

The Pentagon is vowing more military action against drug cartels after a U.S. strike in the Caribbean killed 11 people on a speedboat, though officials have offered no evidence the vessel carried narcotics....

11. U.S. seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s private jet

The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, citing violations of U.S. sanctions and other criminal activities....

12. Opponent disputes Maduro's win in Venezuelan election

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term, according to the country's electoral authority, despite exit polls suggesting a decisive opposition victory....

13. Americans return home in surprise Venezuela swap

In a significant diplomatic development, Americans, previously considered wrongfully detained in Venezuela, have touched down at a U.S. military base in San Antonio, Texas. ...

14. Former senior U.S. official admits to planning attempted foreign coups

John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries....

15. Sergei Guriev: Ukraine was a ‘major miscalculation’ by Putin

What Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping to accomplish by invading Ukraine on February 24 was “another Crimea effect (in 2014 his approval rating grew from 60 to 90%),”...

16. Major European nations recognise Guaido as Venezuela's president

17. Venezuela's re-elected Maduro faces overseas censure

Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro faced fresh international censure on Monday after re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation...