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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.

It’s only been days since the U.S. raid, but it already feels like the world is living in a new reality. China and Russia are watching.

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.

While both countries were allied with Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. attack could give them justification to use force in other spheres, analysts said.

A demonstration outside the building where Nicolás Maduro was arraigned was a ritual of New York public protest, but one that sprang from personal wounds inflicted a continent away.

The convening of the National Assembly made it clear that Maduro loyalists remain entrenched across Venezuelan institutions after decades of purges and crackdowns on dissent.

Military officers detained 14 members of the news media during a National Assembly session. All were released after their phones were searched. One was deported.

Freed from Auschwitz, she was silent about her ordeal for four decades. Then she decided to dedicate her life to educating people about the dangers of prejudice.

His simple statement in federal court was aimed directly at contradictions in the Trump administration’s actions in the Caribbean.

The two countries both produce heavy oil, which is difficult to refine, and have relied historically on American refineries to buy it.

The briefing for congressional leaders and the top members of the intelligence, defense and foreign policy panels came two days after the military operation.

Mr. Pollack has also represented Julian Assange and an official of Enron.

The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases.

“I’m innocent. I’m not guilty. I am a decent man,” the captured Venezuelan president told a judge in Manhattan federal court. “I am still president of my country.”

The ships are using deceptive tactics as part of a seemingly coordinated attempt to bypass American naval forces in the region.