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President Donald Trump holds the document after signing the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White

Trump to use Guantanamo Bay prison to house migrants

The president said a major new facility at the naval base could hold 30,000 deportees in his latest tough move cracking down on immigration.

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  • Nick Miroff and Dan Lamothe

This Month

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores stand together after the swear-in ceremony at Palacio Federal Legislativo in Caracas.

Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in amid protests and international rebuke

Nicolás Maduro said his enemies’ failure to block his inauguration to a third six-year term was “a great victory” for the nation.

  • Joshua Goodman and Regina Garcia Cano

September 2024

Alberto Fujimori, centre, is driven out of prison by one of his lawyers, accompanied by his son Kenji, left, after his release in December last year.

Peru’s Fujimori, divisive head of a political dynasty, dies age 86

During his decade in power, he revived the economy and crushed two leftist insurgencies. But he was forced out in a corruption scandal and later imprisoned.

  • Marco Aquino
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez

Venezuela opposition candidate flees to Spain

Edmundo Gonzalez, 75, who ran against President Nicolás Maduro in July, left after seeking refuge in the Spanish embassy in Caracas several days ago.

  • Lisandra Paraguassu and Vivian Sequera

July 2024

A protester runs past a police motorbike set on fire during demonstrations against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election.

Protests erupt in Venezuela as nations denounce election result

The US and countries around the world denounced the official results of Sunday’s vote, which did not appear to match statistical estimates based on partial counts.

  • Frances Robles, Jack Nicas and Alejandro Cegarra
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President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace after electoral authorities declared him the winner.

Maduro declared winner in Venezuela’s disputed presidential election

Nicolás Maduro will face the challenge of legitimising the vote to his people and the rest of the world, given his government’s history of repression and fraudulent elections.

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  • Patricia Laya and Andreina Itriago Acosta

April 2024

Gas flares on an Iranian offshore oil platform in the Persian Gulf.

Iran oil exports hit six-year high as West considers tougher sanctions

Iran’s success in exporting its crude underscores the difficulties facing the West as it seeks to build pressure on Tehran following its attack on Israel.

  • Malcolm Moore and Najmeh Bozorgmehr

December 2023

John Pilger, pictured in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2003

John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84

John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.

  • Telegraph Obituaries

December 2023

President Nicolas Maduro speaks to pro-government supporters after a referendum regarding Venezuela’s claim to the Essequibo, a region administered and controlled by Guyana.

Venezuelans vote to claim sovereignty over oil-rich chunk of Guyana

It remains unclear how President Nicolas Maduro will enforce the results. But Guyana considers the referendum a step towards annexation.

  • Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda

November 2023

Joe Biden: America’s basic aim is to ensure US taxpayers don’t end up providing tax credits to projects in countries like China, Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

Why Biden’s IRA matters so much to Australia

Jim Chalmers says we don’t need a version of the Inflation Reduction Act, but that underscores the importance of its fine print to our critical minerals industry.

  • Jennifer Hewett

August 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at a forum in 2018.

China urges bigger, stronger BRICS to rival G7

Leaders from the bloc of developing economies will gather this week to debate expansion.

  • Joseph Cotterill, James Kynge and Arjun Neil Alim

July 2023

DroneShield CEO Oleg Vornik demonstrates one of the company’s products.

Shares soar as US government buys up Aussie company’s anti-drone tech

Shares in ASX listed defence tech company DroneShield have soared 19 per cent, after it struck a $33m deal to sell equipment to the US Department of Defence.

  • Nick Bonyhady

April 2023

tankers

Russia’s shadow tankers risk ‘oil spill disaster’

Thousands of vessels with limited cover are an environmental accident waiting to happen, says the boss of a top shipping insurer.

  • Ian Smith, Tom Wilson and Chris Cook

January 2023

Hydrogen installations could be perversely discouraged by caps in the price of fossil fuels.

How gas price caps blow up investment

Labor’s intervention tells investors in hydrogen that policy can change on a whim if the politics suit it.

  • Amanda Stoker
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Biden visits Mexican border amid crackdown in immigrants

In a brief visit to El Paso’s busiest crossing and a migrant services support centre, the US president acceded to demands by Republicans that he make the trip he had not taken for two years.

  • Michael D. Shear and Edgar Sandoval
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A classic American convertible car passes the United States embassy in Havana.

US reopening visa and consular services at embassy in Cuba

The Embassy confirmed this week it would begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the US.

  • Megan Janetsky
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China’s new world energy order is taking shape

The rise of the ‘petroyuan’ should be an incentive for both the US and Europe to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as they can.

  • Rana Foroohar

November 2022

A PdVSA refinery in Venezuela.

US grants Chevron licence to pump oil in Venezuela

Chevron, the only remaining active US oil company in Venezuela, is part of a joint venture with the country’s state oil company but has been barred by sanctions from operations there.

  • Karen DeYoung

March 2022

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman... Saudi Arabia has profited richly in from teaming with Russia.

Pariahs no more? Three problematic oil states that are back in favour

Three checkered oil regimes that President Joe Biden and past US leaders have spectacularly snubbed are now targets of US outreach as global fuel prices reach jarring levels.

  • Ellen Knickmeyer and Cathy Bussewitz

‘We may reach the point where Putin can’t even pay his troops’

A Western oil embargo against Russia raises the geostrategic stakes exponentially. What was almost unthinkable a few days ago has become unstoppable this week.

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  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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