Washington, April 2 (IANS) The United States has removed sanctions on Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, according to an update posted on the website of the US Treasury Department.The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday (Local time) said Rodriguez had been removed from its sanctions list, without providing further details on the decision, reports Xinhua news agency.In a post on social media platform X, Rodriguez welcomed the move as a positive step toward norma…
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Washington, March 30 (IANS) The United States on Monday resumed operations at its embassy in Caracas, reopening its diplomatic presence in Venezuela after years of limited engagement. The State Department said U.S. diplomacy with Venezuela had been handled since March 2019 through the Venezuela Affairs Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia.“Today, we are formally resuming operations at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, marking a new chapter in our diplomatic presence in Venezuela,” t…
Havana, March 29 (IANS) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the United States for “blatantly lying” over a fuel blockade against the island.In a post on social media platform X, Rodriguez said US claims contradict its own executive orders and regulations, citing a January 29 executive order and subsequent US measures as evidence of a “brutal blockade” on fuel supplies to Cuba.He said the measures include threats of sanctions against third countries and foreign companies supplying oi…
New York, March 27 (IANS) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made his second appearance in a New York court after his forcible seizure by US troops in a military raid in Caracas in early January.During his first arraignment on January 5, Maduro pleaded not guilty to all US charges against him, including drug trafficking, and told the court that he was “kidnapped” from his Caracas residence and he remains president of Venezuela, Xinhua news agency reported.On Thursday, Maduro’s lawyer continued …
Washington, March 6 (IANS) The US State Department announced that the United States and Venezuela have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations.Venezuela severed diplomatic ties with the United States in January 2019 due to the latter’s continued interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs. All diplomatic personnel from the US embassy in Venezuela withdrew in March of the same year, Xinhua news agency reported.On January 3, US military forces launched a large-scale strike agains…
New York, March 3 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has not ruled out sending US troops into Iran “if necessary” in a further move away from his earlier opposition to getting involved in wars abroad. He told the New York Post, ”Like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it.” He said it could happen “if they were necessary”, but “I’ll say ‘probably don’t need them’”. His remark about possible troop involvement in the conflic…
New York, Feb 26 (IANS) Cuba says it has killed four persons on a mystery US speedboat in a shootout in its waters, cranking up the already high level of tension between Washington and Havana, with US President Donald Trump declaring that country an “extraordinary threat”. “We’re going to find out exactly what happened here and then we’ll respond accordingly,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on the Wednesday incident. “It is highly unusual to see shootouts on the open sea like…
Washington, Feb 25 (IANS) President Donald Trump declared that the United States had “obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” pushed NATO allies to sharply raise defence spending, and “ENDED 8 wars” in a sweeping projection of American military and geopolitical strength.Describing what he called “a breathtaking operation” known as “Operation Midnight Hammer,” Trump told Congress the US military had “obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian s…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) US-based AI company Anthropic is in the middle of a deeper controversy as the Pentagon (now called the Department of War) is reportedly considering to snap its ties with Dario Amodei-run firm over its insistence on “maintaining some limitations” on how the US military uses its AI models.Anthropic’s AI model Claude was reportedly used in the US military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (through its partnership with AI software f…
New York, Feb 14 (IANS) Nikhil Gupta dramatically admitting in a federal court here that he participated in a murder-for hire plot ends the trial against him without testimony from witnesses or the trove of what the prosecutors assert were evidence against him being aired in court.Gupta, who was accused of plotting against a Khalistani leader, pleaded guilty on Friday to three charges against him — murder-for-hire, and conspiracies to commit that crime and launder money.This was a reversal from…