
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Friday he rejected his US counterpart Donald Trump’s warning to impose blockade on Caracas, stressing that Venezuela’s seas would remain “free and independent”. In remarks cited by Reuters, Maduro said he had requested Venezuela’s Envoy to the UN to denounce Trump’s “illegal” blockade threat at ...

North Korea carried out its third weapons test in eight days on Friday, according to the South’s military, but US President Donald Trump said he had “no problem” with the spate of launches by Pyongyang. The nuclear-armed North is barred from ballistic missile tests under UN resolutions and its actions ...