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President Donald Trump has ordered the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations, including major UN agencies, hastening Washington's retreat from multilateral cooperation. Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday directing US departments to end participation in and funding for 31 United Nations entities and 35 non-UN organizations "as soon as possible," according to a White House release. Which are the main international agencies the US has withdrawn from? Here are some of the most important and well-known organizations the US is withdrawing from: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): The world's leading authority on climate science, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): The main UN body for climate...

Is US President Donald Trump setting his sights on Greenland once again? 2026 has barely begun and Trump has already attacked Venezuela, kidnapped its disputed leader Nicolas Maduro and has renewed threats against several other sovereign territories — including Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland.  Denmark: US 'has no right to annex' Greenland Concern in Europe has grown following a recent social media post by Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House official Stephen Miller, and an interview Trump gave The Atlantic. In it, the US president repeated his long-standing claim: "We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense." On Sunday, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected the remarks outright. "It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing to...

Delcy Eloina Rodriguez Gomez, who is known simply as Delcy in Venezuela, was once asked why she decided to study law at the Central University of Venezuela after finishing school. Her answer: "I made this decision to achieve justice for my father!" In a way, the 56-year-old lawyer, political hardliner and "tigress," as Nicolas Maduro once admiringly called her, has succeeded: The daughter of former Marxist guerrilla Jorge Antonio Rodriguez is now Venezuela's interim president and thus the most powerful person in the country. Her father was the mastermind behind the kidnapping of US businessman William Niehous. After Rodriguez's arrest in 1976, he was tortured to death by the notorious Venezuelan secret service DISIP. Delcy Rodriguez was seven years old at the time. Her father's death s...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday said that a US takeover of Greenland would mean the end of the NATO military alliance. It comes after US President Donald Trump renewed his calls for the large Arctic island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, to come under Washington's control on Sunday. What did Danish PM Frederiksen say? Frederiksen said that "everything would stop" when it comes to cooperation with Washington in the event of a US attack on another NATO member. "If the United States decides to attack another NATO country, then everything would stop — that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security," Frederiksen said.The Greenlandic premier seemingly appealed for calm amid worries the US could annex the island territority [FILE: May 26, 2025]Imag...

Central African Republic'sPresident Faustin Archange Touadera won a third term in last month's election, provisional results showed. The result, released by the electoral authority late Monday, said Touadera secured 76.15% of the vote, with the voter turnout at around 52%. Touadera's primary challengers, Anicet Georges Dologuele and Henri-Marie Dondra, both former prime ministers, received 15%, and about 3% of the vote, respectively. Opponents allege irregularities The 68-year-old mathematician came into power a decade ago, and had been widely expected to win after the main opposition coalition boycotted the poll, denouncing what it called an unequal political environment after a 2023 referendum removed presidential term limits. Dologuele and Dondra alleged widespread irregularities a...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Kyrylo Budanov as the new head of the presidential office of Ukraine. Budanov, head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service, now fills one of the posts that became vacant in the wake of a corruption scandal in the upper echelons of power in Kyiv. His predecessor, Andrii Yermak, resigned at the end of November. Budanov is already the third chief of staff under Zelenskyy. It is considered a powerful post; Yermak accompanied the president to important international meetings, including negotiations on ending Russia's war against Ukraine. The first soldier to head the office This marks the first time a soldier has headed Zelenskyy's presidential office. As head of the secret service, Budanov is one of the most popular political figures in the country,...

Operations at airports across Greece were put on hold for safety reasons on Sunday, the country's civil aviation authority (HCAA) said, with the suspension partly lifted in the early afternoon Greek state TV said unspecified issues affecting radio frequencies prompted the suspensions. HCAA said there had been problems at the main communications center for air traffic controllers. State broadcaster ERT said airport arrivals and departures were suspended at 9:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT). It said flights were ​being diverted to neighboring countries. 'No cyberattack' Air traffic controllers used alternative frequencies to allow some flights to take off and land in the afternoon, the president of the controllers' association, Panagiotis Psarros, told ERTNews. He said, however, that he ...

More than 30 people were killed in northern Nigeria when gunmen attacked Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district of Niger state, police said Sunday. "Over 30 victims lost their lives during the attack, and some persons were also kidnapped. Efforts are ongoing to rescue the kidnapped victims," police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun said. The attackers opened fire on the community, burned homes and the local market, and looted shops for food during the raid on Saturday evening. Residents say the death toll may exceed 40, with many still missing, including children abducted during the attack. Nigeria's kidnapping crisis The gunmen are also believed to have carried out raids that began Friday in the nearby villages of Agwarra and Borgu. "Women and children were not spared," said Dauda Shakulle,...

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has been captured as part of a US military operation and brought to New York to face a series of charges related to drug trafficking and weapons possession conspiracies.  The Trump administration’s unilateral action to extract Maduro from his country — an operation dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve" — reportedly involved the use of 150 aircraft to strike locations in northern Venezuela, including the capital Caracas. Some reports suggest 40 people have died as a result of the US strikes. The operation has been both welcomed and condemned by observers. While many foreign policy and international law experts have said the removal of Maduro — widely seen as an illegitimate leader following a 2024 election that independent observers said he lost, and a r...

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Sunday called on US President Donald Trump to stop threatening to take over Greenland. The appeals come after Trump again insisted that the US needs to control the resource-rich Arctic territory for national security, a day after US forces attacked Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro. In an interview on Sunday with The Atlantic magazine, Trump said: "We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense." He added that the island is "surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships." On Sunday evening, Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that the US needs Greenland "from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it." What did the leaders of Denmark and Greenland say? In a statement, Danish Prime...