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Americans Are NOT HAPPY With Trump's Venezuela Raid
Tensions grow over Somaliland after Israeli FM visit
Israel became the world’s first country to recognize Somaliland last month, sparking condemnation from multiple nations.
Nigerian oil billionaire Elumelu acquires key Seplat stake
The deal highlights the growing role of indigenous capital in the country’s hydrocarbon industry.
Central African Republic president Touadéra wins contested third term
Touadéra, a key ally of Russia’s, secured a victory following an election critics said was neither free nor fair.
Trump's Plan to Seize Greenland Would "Militarize the Arctic," Trample Indigenous Rights
Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it’s considering “a range of options,” including the use of military force. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the U.S. were to attack Greenland, it would spell the end of NATO. “Greenland is not up for sale,” says Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit activist and attorney, who says Indigenous Greenlanders want their independence from both the U.S. and Denmark. We also speak with analyst Pavel Devyatkin, who says the U.S. is “acting like a rogue state” and enacting a policy of “pure imperialism.”
"This Is Our Hemisphere": Report from Colombia on Trump's Escalating Threats to the Region
Following his attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking. Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days. Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist with more than 40 years of involvement in grassroots political organizing, tells Democracy Now! that Trump’s attacks on Petro are lies. The former guerrilla “has seized more cocaine than any other government in the past,” says Rozental. “President Petro is not a drug trafficker. President Petro has been a victim of drug mafias and their allies.”
Energy needs are reshaping alliances in the Middle East
Countries that until recently had frosty relations, like Qatar, Egypt, and Syria, are now striking energy cooperation deals.
A Courthouse Arrest, a Surprise Pregnancy, and One Family’s Shattered Dreams
It’s the judge who first tips off Daniela that something is wrong. “I am pretty certain that you won’t be coming back to my court,” he tells her and another asylum seeker from Colombia—let’s call her Isabella. (All of the immigrants in this story are identified by pseudonyms, for obvious reasons.)  They’d come to San […]