Marking another boost to the renewed partnership between the US and Venezuela, 177 migrants were transferred from the notorious Guantanamo military base to their homeland in Venezuela at the “direct request” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Source link
Bolivia’s former leader Evo Morales launched his fourth presidential bid on Thursday, ignoring the constitution, which only allows three terms in office. Morales, who was Bolivia’s first-ever indigenous president, is also facing criminal charges, which he claims were trumped up by his rival. Source link
Donald Trump’s White House is being blasted online for “ridiculing” and “dehumanising” migrants being deported in shackles in an ASMR-style video posted to its official channels. It comes as Trump declared himself the “King” online, with the White House posting AI-generated images to reiterate his point. Critics say Trump is straddling a fine line between … Read more
In the United States, a children’s picture book by the actress Julianne Moore is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after an executive order by president Trump. Explanation by Emerald Maxwell. Source link
After the US held bilateral talks with Russian delegates in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, breaking from US policy on the Ukraine war, US President Donald Trump chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a social media post on Wednesday, calling him a “dictator” and baselessly faulting him for causing the war. Zelensky responded by qualifying Trump’s … Read more
Does the United States already face a constitutional crisis? At what point does a president’s ‘rule by decree’ manner of governing take a centuries-old democracy into unchartered territory? Source link
A US judge said on Wednesday he will take some time to consider a request by prosecutors under orders from a Donald Trump political appointee to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, saying he wants to make a reasoned decision on a “somewhat unusual situation.” Source link
Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” and Trump called Zelenskyy “a dictator without elections” in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end the war. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv. Source link
President Donald Trump has launched a flurry of controversial claims about the war in Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky, while addressing reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Many of these claims were made without providing any evidence. We fact-check these claims in this edition of Truth or Fake Source link
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with orchestrating a coup to stay in office despite losing the 2022 election — a plot that the country’s top prosecutor says included a plan to poison his opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the unprecedented charges, FRANCE 24’s … Read more