Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured.
The show of solidarity comes as President Trump, emboldened by his capture of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, has suggested he could take action against other countries.
The captured authoritarian leader flashed a symbol that many took to be a defiant peace sign. Loyal lawmakers repeated the gesture at a session in Caracas.
Venezuela could lose the bulk of its oil export revenues this year if the U.S. blockade stays in place, according to internal government estimates, a scenario that would set off a humanitarian crisis.
U.S. intelligence suggested María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, would struggle to lead the government. But her relationship with Trump officials had been souring for months.
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Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said President Trump’s threats “should be taken seriously” and warned against action to annex the semiautonomous Danish territory.
President Trump has repeated his interest in taking the semiautonomous Danish territory, citing U.S. national security. Denmark’s leader says such a move would be the end of NATO.
The assessment aided President Trump and other officials in concluding that Delcy Rodríguez, then Venezuela’s vice president, was Nicolás Maduro’s best short-term successor, according to people briefed on the matter.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine appointed Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister of Canada, to a role in which she would advise on postwar reconstruction.
American allies including France objected to the military incursion into a sovereign state and the capture of the Venezuelan president as a violation of international law.
When an exodus of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh a decade ago, the United Nations recorded many of their birthdays as Jan. 1. The date serves as a reminder of a lost identity.
The Maduro regime was long propped up by Cuba’s armed forces and intelligence agencies. Many Cubans were reported killed in the American military action.