Russia said yesterday that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be “legitimate combat targets”, after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.

Russia yesterday accused the United States of stoking tensions and threatening international shipping with its seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic a day earlier.

Turkey has long seen Kurdish SDF as an extension of banned Kurdish militant group PKK

Venezuela supplies about 50% of Cuba's oil deficit

Unrest broke out in Iran on December 28

The bill mandates a minimum 500% tariff on all goods from any country found knowingly purchasing Russian oil

The smartphone contained the names and contact details of staff members in the authority's nuclear security division

Putin proposed in September that both parties should agree for a further 12 months to adhere to the New START limits

The minister added that Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were injured

The woman, identified in local media as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was hit at point blank range

Trump invited Gustavo Petro, just days after threatening him with military action

Sixty-six international organizations named as "contrary to the interests of the United States"

The US seized an empty Russian-flagged, Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean yesterday as part of President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to dictate oil flows in the Americas and force Venezuela’s socialist government to become an ally.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright yesterday said that Washington will control sales of Venezuelan oil “indefinitely,” a day after President Donald Trump announced Venezuela’s interim leaders had agreed to US-managed marketing of 30-50 million barrels of crude.

Iran’s top judge warned protesters yesterday there would be “no leniency for those who help the enemy against the Islamic Republic”, while accusing Israel and the US of pursuing hybrid methods to disrupt the country.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Republicans must win the 2026 congressional midterm elections - or else he will get impeached by Democrats.

The United Nations yesterday said decades of discrimination and segregation of Palestinians by Israel in the West Bank were intensifying, and called on the country to end its “apartheid system”.

Washington and Kyiv teams in Paris were yesterday expected to tackle Ukraine talks’ “most difficult issues” including territory following a breakthrough in European-led negotiations, Ukraine’s leader said.

It says US has maximum leverage over Venezuela's interim authorities

Crude has seen wild swings since Trump ordered the toppling of Nicolas Maduro