Beijing could leverage Trump's move to defend its stance against the US on territorial issues including Taiwan, Tibet and islands in the East and South China seas

Washington carried out a strike on Caracas and captured the leader

The US president's announcement followed a lightning pre-dawn attack in which commandos grabbed Maduro and his wife while air strikes pounded sites in and around Caracas

Maduro and his wife were flown by helicopter to New York City, where they face drug-trafficking and weapons charges

While a few hundred Maduro supporters gathered to clamor for his freedom, the streets were otherwise eerily quiet.

A look at the legality of the US action in Venezuela

How the hours-long operation unfolded is based on interviews with four sources familiar with the matter and details Trump himself has revealed.

Fifty-two foreign prisoners were also to be released and deported

Military intervention could bring risks in November midterm elections

Venezuela's Supreme Court late Saturday ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to become the country's interim leader

A US government plane carrying Maduro landed at a military base shortly after nightfall, and he was transported by helicopter to New York City

Here are the highlights of the press conference, in Trump's own words

President Donald Trump yesterday said that the United States will “run” Venezuela and tap its huge oil reserves after snatching leftist leader Nicolas Maduro out of the country during a bombing raid on Caracas.

The US military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Madruo yesterday sparked alarm across the international community, with allies and foes of Washington and Caracas expressing disquiet.

Saudi Arabia on Saturday called for dialogue between factions in southern Yemen amid clashes in resource-rich Hadramawt province, where the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) seized vast swathes of territory in recent weeks.

Ukraine is hosting security advisers for crunch talks yesterday as Kyiv insists negotiations are zeroing in on a deal, while Russia claims a deadly New Year strike torpedoed the efforts.

A militia linked to the Islamic State group staged a simultaneous attack on three villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 14 people, the military and local sources said Friday.

Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since a 2021 coup.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for Israel to end a ban on humanitarian agencies that provided aid in Gaza, saying he was “deeply concerned” at the development.

On June 27, 1954, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, president of Guatemala, was driven from power by mercenaries trained and financed by Washington, after a land reform that threatened the interests of the powerful US company United Fruit Corporation. In 2003, the US officially acknowledged the CIA’s role in this coup, in the name of fighting communism.