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Trump leaves war with Venezuela on the table, threatens more seizures: NBC
The comments increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro’s regime, but Trump wouldn’t say if ousting the Venezuelan leader was his ultimate goal.
19 Dec 2025 - 7:33PM
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Americas and the Caribbean
Trump’s Venezuela ‘blockade’ raises legal questions as US masses forces
19 Dec 2025 - 3:18PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Brazil’s Lula vows to veto bill slashing Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison term
19 Dec 2025 - 2:09AM
Americas and the Caribbean
US forces strike another alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific, killing 4
The attack brought the total number of known boat strikes to 26, while at least 99 people have been killed.
18 Dec 2025 - 10:44AM
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The US Southern Command released video of a boat moving through water before there was an explosion. Photo: US Southern Command via X
Americas and the Caribbean
Brazil’s Congress passes bill to cut Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence
If successful, the legislation could see Brazil’s former president serve a little over two years in prison for coup plot.
18 Dec 2025 - 1:55PM
China-Latin America relations
BYD plans giant Brazil factory to scale electric bus and truck production
The new plant would dwarf BYD’s current Brazil operation, lifting output from about 600 units over a decade to up to 7,000 a year.
18 Dec 2025 - 5:14AM
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China food security
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What does future hold for Brazil, US in China’s soybean balancing act?
The two countries remain top suppliers, but efforts to promote self-sufficiency are set to reduce reliance on imports.
18 Dec 2025 - 1:12AM
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Soybeans are loaded into a truck in Dwight, Illinois, in August. Photo: Getty Images
Americas and the Caribbean
Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela
Venezuelan government condemns blockade as ‘irrational’ after the US president demands it ‘return’ oil, land and assets to the US.
17 Dec 2025 - 4:27PM
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US military boat strikes kill 8, adding to drug war death toll
The US military said it targeted ‘designated terrorist organisations’, and posted video of an operation in the eastern Pacific.
16 Dec 2025 - 4:42PM
China-Latin America relations
Mexico stands by its decision for 50 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods
Government defends tariff package as vital to supporting domestic workers and producers, and not aimed at curbing imports from China.
16 Dec 2025 - 2:27AM
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Commodities
Chinese mining giant CMOC buys four Brazilian gold mines to expand
CMOC will own the Aurizona, RDM, Fazenda and Santa Luz mines, with 8 tons of combined annual gold output.
15 Dec 2025 - 12:55PM
Gold seams at the Al-Amar Gold Mine, 195 kilometre southwest of the Saudi capital Riyadh on May 28, 2008. Photo: AFP
Chile
Chile takes hard-right turn as Kast scores landslide election victory
Jose Antonio Kast declares Chile ‘wanted change’ as the South American nation chooses its most right-wing president in decades.
15 Dec 2025 - 3:33PM
Americas and the Caribbean
How Mexico’s Sheinbaum weaves generations of tradition into her signature style
The colourful embroidered dresses and blouses have become a wardrobe staple for Mexico’s ‘most stylish’ president.
13 Dec 2025 - 1:46PM
United States
US judge blocks ICE from re-detaining Abrego Garcia
The order comes less than a day after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, previously wrongfully deported to El Salvador, was released from immigration detention.
12 Dec 2025 - 10:29PM
Americas and the Caribbean
Tensions rise as US prepares to seize more tankers with Venezuelan oil
Seizure off Venezuela signals a crackdown on a shadow fleet of tankers and financially squeezing the Maduro government.
12 Dec 2025 - 4:14PM
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A satellite image shows the Skipper tanker and another vessel off Port Jose, Venezuela, on November 18, 2025. Photo: Planet Labs PBC via Reuters
Americas and the Caribbean
Tanker seized off Venezuela to be taken to US port, as threat of war grows
White House justifies targeting ‘black-market oil’ as Russia expresses support for its ally, Nicolas Maduro.
12 Dec 2025 - 10:12AM
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China-Latin America relations
Mexico slaps tariffs of up to 50% on Chinese goods as US trade pact review looms
Beijing criticises the duties as damaging to its interests, as Mexico defends them as vital to support domestic producers.
12 Dec 2025 - 6:02AM
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US-China trade war
‘Maximum pressure’: why China is taking Mexico’s tariff move ‘very seriously’
Beijing sees Mexico’s move as driven by a wider US pressure campaign – and could take retaliatory measures, analysts say.
11 Dec 2025 - 10:55PM
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed tariffs on goods from China and other Asian markets in the name of protecting local industries. Some analysts see the move as a response to US pressure. Photo: TNS
Americas and the Caribbean
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US-Venezuela tensions: how far will Trump go?
As tensions escalate in the Caribbean, the world waits for Washington’s next move.
11 Dec 2025 - 2:06PM
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Fugitive Nobel laureate Machado details secret US help to reach Norway
Nobel laureate breaks silence on months in hiding, detailing essential US support for her clandestine exit to Oslo to receive Peace Prize.
11 Dec 2025 - 10:03PM
Americas and the Caribbean
‘We keep it’: Trump says US seized oil tanker off Venezuela coast
Venezuela accuses the US of ‘blatant theft’ and ‘international piracy’ after US forces stormed a sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean.
11 Dec 2025 - 4:02PM
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Mexico lawmakers approve tariff increase on Chinese and other Asian imports
The move, which still requires Senate approval, would affect goods like cars, clothes and steel from China, India, South Korea and elsewhere.
11 Dec 2025 - 2:42AM
Employees work at a steel bar factory in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico, in November. Photo: AFP
Americas and the Caribbean
Honduras president alleges ‘electoral coup’ amid chaotic vote count
Fraud allegations, claims of US interference and disputed tally sheets mar vote count following Honduras’ November 30 presidential election.
10 Dec 2025 - 3:47PM
China-Latin America relations
US senators warn of China-cartel links forming a global ‘Silk Road of crime’
At a Senate hearing, officials described Chinese money brokers as key to laundering cartel funds and fuelling the illicit fentanyl trade.
10 Dec 2025 - 7:28AM
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Venezuela’s Machado will not receive Nobel Peace Prize in person
The Venezuelan opposition figure, who has been in hiding for over a year, will have her daughter accept the award in Norway.
10 Dec 2025 - 4:03PM
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