US reportedly seizing tanker in Caribbean; Trump claims he cancelled second wave of attacks on Venezuela – live

Par :Shrai Popat (now) · Tom Ambrose and Emily Mackay (earlier)

9 janvier 2026 à 14:58

US in process of taking fifth sanctioned tanker suspected of carrying oil to and from Venezuela, Reuters reports; Trump says he’s halting further attack after Caracas’ release of political prisoners

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are using force to assert their dominion worldwide, saying they are “completely undermining” peace and the post-Second World War international legal order, AP reported.

In his most substantial critique of US, Russian and other military incursions in sovereign countries, Leo told ambassadors who represent their countries’ interests at the Holy See that “war is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading”.

Trump doubles down on defending federal agent who killed Minneapolis woman as more ICE protests planned across US – live

The Guardian

Par :Shrai Popat (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)

8 janvier 2026 à 16:58

Donald Trump repeated his claims that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good acted in self-defense; DHS secretary Kristi Noem expected to speak in New York

Since early December, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations – many of them masked and brandishing rifles – have grabbed people at hardware stores and gyms, or outside homes and schools around the cities.

They have violently tackled undocumented immigrants as well as US citizens, including advocates and protestors.

‘Don’t believe this’: Minnesota politicians slam Trump officials’s reasoning for fatally shooting woman in car during ICE raid – live

The Guardian

Par :Shrai Popat (now) · Lucy Campbell and Amy Sedghi (earlier)

7 janvier 2026 à 22:03

Governor Tim Walz slams Trump’s ‘propaganda machine’ as Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to ‘get out’ of the city; Noem claims ‘domestic terrorism’ act spurred agents to shoot woman

Woman fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows

Miranda Bryant, the Guardian’s Nordic correspondent, also has written this handy explainer on why Donald Trump is renewing calls for a takeover of Greenland:

Dozens of January 6 supporters march through Washington five years after attack; brawl erupts as counter-protester is arrested – live

The Guardian

Par :Shrai Popat (now) · George Chidi, Yohannes Lowe and Adam Fulton (earlier)

6 janvier 2026 à 21:03

Many of those at today’s march, including ex-Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio say that they were there to protest against the death of Ashli Babbitt, a rioter who was killed by Capitol police five years ago

My colleague Sibylla Brodzinsky has reported on the relationship between the US and Colombia, home to significant oil reserves. Here is an extract from her story:

Colombia has long been a close partner of the US in the fight against drug trafficking and enjoyed bipartisan support in Washington but relations have soured dramatically since Trump came to office.

Colombia’s narcotics trade is largely controlled by illegal armed groups such as the Gulf Clan, the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group, the majority of whose members demobilised after a 2016 peace deal …

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