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Two people were shot and wounded by US Border Patrol officers in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Portland police said officers responding to emergency calls found a man and a woman with apparent gunshot wounds. "Two people are in the hospital following a shooting involving federal agents," Portland police ⁠said in a statement. Their conditions were not immediately known. Local police stressed that their officers were not involved in the incident.Portland's mayor urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to 'end all operations' in the cityImage: Jenny Kane/AP Photo/picture alliance What did authorities say? The FBI said ​it ​was probing the shooting in which the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were involved. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson ur...

The US military's pre-dawn attack in Venezuela on Saturday and the capture of authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores over alleged drug offenses prompted a swift response from the African Union. The bloc expressed "grave concern" and called for respect for sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity. "The African Union calls upon all parties concerned to exercise restraint, responsibility, and respect for international law to prevent any escalation and to preserve regional peace and stability," it said in a statement on the situation in Venezuela. Maduro: a disputed president  The United States does not regard Maduro as a legitimate president. Like the EU and many Latin American states, it questions the official result of Venezuela's 2024 presidential el...

Hours after the US controversial seizure of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro this weekend, China's Foreign Ministry stated Beijing was "deeply shocked" by the "blatant use of force against a sovereign state." The Asian nation also appealed to Latin American and Caribbean countries, calling them "good friends and good partners" and assuring them Beijing was willing to work with them and "navigate the changing international landscape with solidarity and coordination." While criticizing the United States for attacking Venezuela, Chinese diplomats have also sought to portray their own country as a responsible global power. Those remarks are likely to resonate strongly across Latin America. With US President Donald Trump reviving the Monroe Doctrine — a foreign policy stance first articulated over...

Japan has criticized new Chinese restrictions on exporting so-called dual-use goods to the country, imposed after comments from its prime minister on Chinese military drills near Taiwan upset Beijing.  "A measure such as this, targeting only our country, differs significantly from international practice, is absolutely unacceptable and deeply regrettable," Japan's top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara saidd.  Dual use items are goods, software or technologies that can have both civilian and military applications, and can include certain key rare earths used to make items like drones and computer chips.  Minoru Kihara called the Chinese step 'deeply regrettable,' with Japan yet to announce any measures in retaliationImage: Motoya Taguchi/Jiji Press/picture allian...

Colombia is "very sick," and its government is run by "a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," US President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday. Asked about a military intervention in Colombia, he responded: "Sounds good to me!" Gustavo Petro's response to Trump's threat was not long in coming. The Colombian president had already frequently fired back at attacks from Trump or Elon Musk on social media, and this time Petro also went all out on the platform X. "Every soldier in Colombia now has an order: any commander of the security forces who gives preference to the US flag over the Colombian flag will be immediately dismissed from the institution on the orders of the base, the troops, and myself. The order to the security forces is not to shoot at the...

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...