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*He Was Head Of Drug Cartel, Not Legitimate President, Says Secretary Of State *'Cooperated With Hezbollah,Narco-Terrorist Groups, Gave Them Open Camps Inside Venezuela' Republican United States (US) Senator Mike Lee said today that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told him Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested by US forces to stand trial on criminal charges in the US. “He [Rubio] anticipates no further action in Venezuela now that Maduro is in US custody,” Lee wrote on X after a call with Washington’s top diplomat. US Attorney General Confirms Maduro Faces Criminal Charges After Indictment In New York US…

Details have begun to emerge on how Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured in the early hours of today on the orders of US President Donald Trump. Trump had in a post on his Truth Social claimed the US had “captured” Maduro and Flores and flown them out of the South American country after a pre-dawn assault on Caracas,the country's capital, and the surrounding region. “It was a brilliant operation, actually,” the US President told the New York Times after eyewitnesses in Venezuela reported a series of explosions. “A lot of good planning and [a]…

US President Donald Trump moments ago claimed that the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the country”. In a Truth Social post shared only moments ago, Trump wrote: "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your…

*'You’re Drinking, Using Cocaine Again, You Need God' *Please Don't Shoot Me, Please Don't Shoot Me, Stepdaughter Begs For Life A Florida man killed his wife and shot his stepdaughter in the face following an argument over watching a football game, authorities say. Jason Kenney, 47, had been drinking and watching 'Monday Night Football' in his shed in Highland City, just east of Tampa, until about 11 p.m. on 22 December, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news conference the following day. Kenney then went inside his home and wanted to continue watching the game in the living…

*Jubilation In US Over Trump's Strikes On ISIS In Nigeria, Uneasy Calm In Sokoto *'An Amazing Christmas present' *'Trump, America Will No Longer Tolerate These Barbarians' *Attitudes Within Nigerian Govt Beginning To Favor Protecting Christians, Actions Against Those Terrorizing Christians, Moderate Muslims --Rep Huizenga By Rosemary Ameh, Sokoto, and other reports The US’s Christmas Day strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-West Africa (ISIS/ISWAP) targets in Nigeria have been met with praise by Donald Trump supporters who for months had been agitating for the President to respond forcefully to the killings of Christians in the country. Trump told Politico…

*Ghana Welcomes Persons Involved In Legit Business, But Will Remain Hostile To Cyber Criminals -Minister An operation by the Ghana Cyber Security Authority (CSA) and the Police has led to the arrest of 48 suspected cybercrime fraudsters at Dawhenya in Greater Accra,the country's capital. Those arrested are believed to be Nigerian nationals, according to the Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam Nartey George, who said this was based on preliminary interrogation. A source said a motive of the suspects was to "hit it big this Christmas, travel to Nigeria and live large in their country --unfortunately at the…

*From UK To US*Faces Life Imprisonment*Day Children Were To Be Brought To Court, She Reported They Were Murdered By Intruder A 37-year-old American woman accused of killing two of her children after a Colorado judge demanded she comply with a custody order has been extradited from Britain, where she was arrested, to the United States (US) to face charges. Kimberlee Singler was arrested in Kensington, West London, by officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency in December 2023, a week after her nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son were found dead in their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Singler’s 11-year-old daughter…

*13 From African Countries*6 Asia-Pacific*4 Europe*2 Middle East, South Asia, Western Hemisphere The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the US diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of Donald Trump’s “America first” priorities. Incumbent US Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard M. Mills Jr, who assumed office on 25 July, 2025, is among those withdrawn. The chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries were informed last week that their tenures would end in January, according to two State Department officials, who spoke on condition of…

Money may be everything -or almost everything -to most people across the world, but even the richest man on earth has at least one person he obviously looks up to as a role model. Put short, while most see in him the ultimate of who they aspire to be, the world's richest sees another as who he aspires to look like. A single image by football megastar Cristiano Ronaldo was enough to ignite conversation across social media, with world's richest man Elon Musk joining in. Ronaldo shared a post-sauna photo showcasing his famously sculpted physique, and among the millions who…

By William Christou & Pjotr Sauer In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly-veiled threat that Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist, would be next in the line of Arab dictators toppled by the then raging Arab spring. It took 14 years, during which 620,000 were killed and nearly 14 million displaced, but eventually the doctor’s turn came and Assad was deposed, fleeing to Moscow, Russia, in the middle of the night. But after relinquishing his dictatorship for a gilded…